BlueJeans leaders (band 5+) have been at New Jersey for weeks now and nothing has been communicated down the line. Calls have been cancelled during this like it’s some sort of lock in. What’s going on?
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I think news on the outcome has been announced?
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The VZ CEO has no skills, no vision, and most of all no conscience.
Please, pickup the telephone and call Mr. Musk?
What is there to lose but the VZ and BlackRock, DEI/Woke agenda!
Initiate a BJ collaboration effort with the Musk, X Corporation?
Beneficial, a win-win for both companies.
VZ would "learn" and gain some credibility to learn how the real-world works.
What is the viability of Mr. Musk integrating BJ with now X, formerly Twitter?
BJ could be the recipient by X, a Private Corporation.
Idea was sound. Telecom needed a software to fill a void. However, late to the party. Being in Ca, we knew about Blue Jeans. Decent reputation. But like anything else Big Red gets and then let's their Finance masterminds water it down with offshore development, so bugus margin analysis, it becomes a typical VZ product that works B- at best. The intent is good but execution is always second class. Plus VZ needed the option prior to the pandemic not 3 months in. When Covid hit everyone had already heard or used Zoom or just flipped on Teams.
It’s a masterpiece if software engineering.
Blue jeans is horrible
Blue Jeans has been awful since day one, consistently drops or freezes. I just terrible.
I have heard Blue Jeans 'is going away'.... could just be rumor of course. Horrible purchase.
No tech, interesting, up and coming or revenue generating companies use BJ - most have never even heard of it. Zoom and Teams - that's it! Once again - bad Vz decision.
Terrible product!!! Former Vz employee here and current vendor (where the dollars are at) and Vz makes us use BJ for all of their program calls. The rest of the planet uses Zoom, Teams (another terrible product) and G meet.
Regarding Stinky Stankey? Of course, I was kidding. Stinky Stankey is about as eponymously named as Larry the Fink from Blackrock. Only 4 things can fix this situation. Steal leaders who moved on from T-Mobile, Zayo, and Altice - or hire a lot of the old cast as contractors and hire some whipper-snapper smart leader peeps from the schools within the footprint and train them to breathe life back into VZ. Otherwise, the company will just keep floating in ciricles.
@3rqk+1nQuJMIe you have got to be kidding right? Have you read the AT&T forum lately?
That would make sense. The bit pieces of AOL and Yahoo were treated very similarly. The truth is though, who would want to purchase it at any price as a product when there are so many competitors on the market, and some for free? Their best bet is likely to sell off all of the IP and write off all the rest as yet another foolish investment affair.
It really is time for VZ executive leadership, assuming that there is any left, it is time to start hiring people away from TMUS, Zayo, and Altice. Right now, those three are considered 'best of breed' in telecom for profits, strategy, and products. Currently, and for the past handful of years there is and was no one who could outthink or compete with them. This is particularly true with respect to 5G and dark fiber.
Verizon has become the Bad News Bears of Telecom. Perhaps Hans should be replaced with ATTs John Stankey as his last name is right in line with what HV has done to the company.
Strategizing on spinning it off.
“BJ is widely used”
- 00000001% is not widely but yes it is used by those that think it helps with their metrics of being good sheep employee
Some lines of business were recently advised to stop using BJ due to how ineffective it is as delivering a quality experience. Many of the Frontline employees have problems when trying to get on via thin clients. And when used for learning, the experience is nothing short of embarrassing. My org is currently being reskilled on WebEx and was advised to stop using BJ and start using WebEx, effective last week.
My kiss b-u-t-t manager used to use blue jeans to talk to me. Literally an email to join his session. I join and the session lasts 2 min. Something that could have been accomplished by email or text or a quick phone call. He wanted to log his BJ minutes cause someone high up looks as sessions and minutes used .
Blue jeans is the yahoo and aol of video conferencing! VZ likes to overpay for outdated garbage. No one outside the company uses it.
Bluejeans isn't new, it was one of the earlier conferencing clients. It has a terrible name, unmemorable branding and they didn't prioritize it enough before all the stupid billionaire real estate investors started seeking out their "nice little recessions" to force more people back to the office.
Even in the V-Team offices, you're only really required to use Bluejeans on internal calls that a higher up forces on you. Just about all the others just offer smoother options imo.
The only place I’ve noticed bluejeans outside of work is at my hospital and local dr for telemedicine. Even they keep calling it zoom, facetime, or just online before during and after the appt because bluejeans isn’t known.
My new team keeps doing google meets now because the new folks have never heard of bluejeans and the more seasoned folks it seems still can’t use it. We used it on my old team exclusively to make our director happy.
Well they can’t outsource BlueJeans because they were offshore from Day 1
- salty
Verizon has been replaced by Zayo in selling waves, VZB has been very slow in implementing. Blue Jeans is known by nobody, another failure product marketing just like wave offerings.
Based on what you are saying it would appear that Blue Jeans has either been sold or is being reorganized into another group. Blue Jeans though better than its opponents showed up too late to party. Kind of like Betamax and VHS. In the immortal words of the infamous Neutron Jack of GE fame, "if you can't be Number 1 or Number 2 in any business, then why are you in that business?"
This is also why all of the strategy and development groups need to be cleared out and there should be a raiding party on T-Mobile, Altice, and Zayo's strategy teams. None of the incumbents for more than a decade have delivered anything of value. The same goes for marketing and sales: out, out, out!