Rumpus app integrates with BlueJeans to bring interactive and content-rich capabilities to web conferencing
Oblong Industries, maker of multi-stream meeting applications and interactive spatial computing environments, and BlueJeans Network, the meetings platform for the modern workplace, have annouced this year that BlueJeans is first to integrate with Rumpus, the new visual collaboration application for virtual teams from Oblong Industries.
BlueJeans and Oblong both see a future where meetings are more intelligent AND the meeting infrastructure fades into the background so that teams are left free to focus on business outcomes. Rooms, teams and individuals need the tools to collaborate freely from remote locations and different devices.
The combination of Rumpus plus BlueJeans makes for smarter meetings that fluidly combine voice, video, content, and sentiment so that remote workers can collaborate on the best outcomes - Mark Backman, VP of Product at Oblong
This requires smart meeting technology that can anticipate the needs of the meeting and its participants and adapt to a changing set of conditions. Multi-stream sharing and bi-directional interaction are the way teams naturally work together. With Rumpus + BlueJeans, teams can enjoy this same level of interaction when they are distributed for always-on collaboration.
“Bringing voice and video to the Rumpus app for team collaboration was a primary goal for us,” said Mark Backman, VP of Product at Oblong. “BlueJeans was first to Rumpus because of its mature APIs which allowed for the most stable and seamless integration of web-based video conferencing directly into the Rumpus meeting app. The combination of Rumpus plus BlueJeans makes for smarter meetings that fluidly combine voice, video, content, and sentiment so that remote workers can collaborate on the best outcomes.”
Interactive and content-rich capabilities to web conferencing
The Rumpus app from Oblong Industries allows meeting participants to share their content simultaneously and includes personal cursors to point at and emphasize content, presence indicators to signal who’s looking at what, and emoji reactions to exchange feedback without disrupting conversation flow.
By seamlessly integrating the best-in-class videoconferencing capabilities of BlueJeans directly into the Rumpus app for content- focused collaboration, remote team meetings are more engaging, the collective intelligence of the group is leveraged, and, ultimately, the team performance is improved.
Rumpus is ideally suited to remote collaborators that rely on each other and on a rich array of visual information to generate ideas, analyze options, advance projects, make decisions, and realize outcomes.
“Oblong and Rumpus are a terrific example of how best-of-breed innovation can drive the industry to reach a new level,” said Matthew Collier, SVP strategic alliances and business development, BlueJeans. “BlueJeans is focused on the same objective: deliver the industry’s best meeting platform with partners that share the same vision of smart meetings, intelligent collaboration, and uninterrupted productivity. Working with partners like Oblong is how BlueJeans helps customers accelerate success.”
The BlueJeans WebRTC client is the engine behind browser-based multi-stream sharing and collaboration with Rumpus. As an early adopter of WebRTC, BlueJeans created a platform for open engagement – with partners and third-party developers – that reduces friction for meeting participants and customers. Zero download, full feature functionality is another step in allowing teams to focus on outcomes.
Rumpus is ideally suited to teams and remote collaborators that rely on each other and on a rich array of visual information to generate ideas, analyze options, advance projects, make decisions, and realize outcomes.