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BlueJeans and Dolby Simplify Meeting Room Purchase and Deployment with Rooms-as-a-ServiceORLANDO, Fla., March 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (Enterprise Connect)—The first cloud service to connect desktops, mobile devices, and room systems in one video meeting, Blue Jeans Network, Inc. today announced its plan to offer BlueJeans Rooms-as-a-Service featuring Dolby Voice® Room in the near future. BlueJeans Rooms-as-a-Service featuring Dolby Voice® Room will be a new service-based subscription model for quickly adopting Dolby’s award-winning hardware with BlueJeans’ enterprise-grade cloud Meetings Platform. With a convenient way to purchase your BlueJeans Rooms license, Dolby Voice Room hardware, maintenance and support in one simple invoice, this offering, when available, will give your teams everything they need to support the next phase of your business. The Room-as-a-Service model disrupts the traditional purchasing model by providing IT decision makers with the benefits of predictable pricing, a simplified approval process, and the convenience of adding more rooms as needed—all from a single vendor. Sold directly or through channel resellers, BlueJeans anticipates that BlueJeans Rooms-as-a-Service featuring Dolby Voice will make it easier to leverage Dolby’s expertise combining the world’s best immersive audio with intelligent video. Partners certified on BlueJeans Rooms will be included on the ‘BlueJeans Rooms Certified List’ and will work closely with the BlueJeans sales team in selling and deploying the solution for our customers. “Our team recently completed a series of interviews with end-user technology managers about the ‘rooms-as-a-service’ concept,” said Ira M. Weinstein, founder and managing partner at Recon Research. “What we learned is that all 24 of the decision makers, who spanned various industries and company sizes, were either somewhat or very interested in such a model. Even masive companies with huge deployments were intrigued by the idea of a turnkey offering of this kind. BlueJeans and Dolby have clearly uncovered an area of unmet pent-up demand within the collaboration marketplace.” “BlueJeans and Dolby are working to erase any barrier to adopting a great enterprise meeting experience in their conference rooms. The Rooms-as-a-Service model will be ideal for IT managers concerned with adoption, scale and management and teams that want a superior collaboration platform,” said Guillaume Vives, chief product officer, BlueJeans Network. “We have listened to our users who want a unified solution to simplify the approval process without long-term commitments. Together, BlueJeans and Dolby expect to set a new baseline for the modern workplace.” “Software plus hardware subscription models are now common place in both consumer and enterprise worlds,” said Andrew Border, Vice President, Communications Business Group, Dolby Laboratories. “With the explosion of cloud hosted meeting subscription software, it is clearly the right time to offer more flexible hardware acquisition models.” Ease of set up and deployment, and superior audio and video quality are the benchmark characteristics of the BlueJeans and Dolby meeting room solution. Paul Park, IT Director, Compass summarized his experience this way, “BlueJeans Rooms with Dolby hardware meetings are incredibly easy to start and join from anywhere. The audio and video quality is significantly better than our previous setup.” Additional BlueJeans Rooms-as-a-Service featuring Dolby Voice Room features are expected to include:
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