The Record - Issue 21: Summer 2021

75 requiring no additional hardware investment. “We requested to be connected, and they ena- bled that and gave us network access devices and credentials,” said Eguizabal. “We then gave our permission as an admin for our Office 365 ten- ancy, to set up the integration. And that was all done in minutes.” BlueJeans Gateway now enables Pernod Ricard to set up and join Teams meetings using its exist- ing room systems. Regardless of their room sys- tems, 19,000 employees can now join meetings with the touch of a button, eliminating delays and improving the productivity of meetings. BlueJeans has also enabled Pernod Ricard to make the most of remote and hybrid working environments, the need for which was heightened during the Covid-19 pandemic. With BlueJeans Gateway, users can join Teams meetings from any device — whether they’re working from home or the office, which has allowed them to continue to communicate and collaborate during the crisis. According to Eguizabal, Pernod Ricard was fortunate to have the ability to quickly shift to remote work with the help of these tools. “The usage of such tools multiplied by two or three, and we continue to extensively use these plat- forms,” he said. “In some ways, the pandemic has forced everybody to use technologies like Teams to keep working despite disruption. They’ve real- ised that there’s no reason they can’t keep doing what they’ve been doing remotely.” With Teams now fully rolled out and integrated with BlueJeans, Pernod Ricard is thinking ahead in its journey to become more collaborative. The firm plans to deepen its use of Teams and antic- ipates that its partnership with BlueJeans will prove to be invaluable once more. “We expect to increase our number of Gate­ way licenses every year,” said Eguizabal. “We’ll keep using Gateway to ensure our existing meeting rooms and video conferencing capa- bilities continue to connect to Microsoft Teams seamlessly.” Take a free 30-day trial of BlueJeans Gateway and connect unlimited rooms to Microsoft Teams video conferencing, visit: https://pages.bluejeans.com/gatewaytrial-therecord