IBM Lotus Sametime

IBM Lotus Sametime version 7, IBM's market-leading platform for real-time collaboration, improves corporate culture through innovative use of technology. Lotus Sametime helps streamline access to people and information, improves personal and team productivity, brings together geographically dispersed team members, decreases response times and reduces costs.

An integrated business instant messaging and Web conferencing offering, Lotus Sametime is based on three concepts:

	Presence Awareness.

See, in advance, if a person – or even an application is available to collaborate, share information, and take action.
	Instant Messaging.

Exchange messages and communicate in real time.
	Web Conferencing.

Though basic in nature, these capabilities enable organizations to be more productive in today's business environment. With the help of Lotus Sametime, organisations big and small in all industry sectors, are able to:
	Provide instant, anytime access to people and information through integrated presence awareness, instant messaging and Web conferencing capabilities.
	Virtually bring together centralized and geographically dispersed individuals and teams, providing the option to securely extend security-rich, real-time collaboration to anyone/everyone in the extended value chain.
	Improve individual and team productivity, broadening communications choice beyond the phone, e-mail and in-person meetings.
	Enable faster, more informed decision-making by bringing people together -- spontaneously or in a structured fashion.
	Improve general and customer-specific response times, ultimately accelerating time-to-market all while providing competitive differentiation/advantage.
	Reduce cost of ownership/deliver cost-to-value by providing a set of real-time capabilities in a single product offering and by providing flexible integration with existing infrastructures and Web applications.
	Reduce the need for business travel, delivering fast and often measurable return on investment (ROI).

It's no wonder that more than fifteen million people worldwide use Lotus Sametime every day to communicate, collaborate, and work in new ways. IBM Lotus Sametime is a primary e-business tool of choice!

IBM Lotus sametime provides access to business-critical information anytime, anywhere.

Whether team members are in the offi ce or on the road, they can collaborate in real time with Lotus Sametime software.

Scalability.
Businesses with hundreds of thousands of employees rely on Lotus Sametime software every day for business-critical communications. You can link multiple Lotus Sametime servers to increase scalability and reduce traffi c across wide area networks(WANs).

Security, privacy and compliance.

Lotus Sametime chat logging APIs can be used to build a server-based chat logging solution or to integrate with third-party logging and archiving solutions to assist you in addressing your organization’s regulatory compliance requirements.

Extensibility.

Toolkits provide application programming interfaces (APIs) so you can integrate and embed real-time collaboration capabilities into e-mail,calendars, discussion databases, document libraries and business portals,as well as a wide range of Microsoft® Windows® and Web applications.

Authentication and access control.

Lotus Sametime technology authenticates users when they log on. Users can protect Web conferences with a password, arrange for “unlisted“ meetings and limit access only to the individuals who receive invitations. Web conference content can be encrypted and restricted to only authorised viewers.

Instant messaging gateway.
Connect to other Lotus Sametime communities, or to other communities using the SIP protocol, through the Lotus Sametime gateway.

Click-to-call and audio integration.

Enable click-to-call and Web conferencing with integrated audio functionality through the optional integration of Lotus Sametime software with leading third-party audio solutions.

Mobile access.
Lotus Sametime software can be accessed from a wide variety of wireless mobile devices, using solutions such as IBM Lotus Sametime Everyplace® technology, to see who is online, initiate a chat and send and receive instant messages.

Directory support.

You can use existing directories — like IBM Lotus Domino® or any Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory—to control exactly who can access the Lotus Sametime environment.

Proxy support and firewalls.

Lotus Sametime software can be deployed to let external users access the server without compromising network security.

Server management.

Lotus Sametime software features a browser-based interface, making it easy to set up new users, administer security and access privileges, monitor activity levels and analyze usage trends. An integrated administration function makes it easy to broadcast messages with security in or across your entire network.

Market-leading, real-time collaboration.

IBM Lotus Sametime software is a market leader in enterprise instant messaging and Web conferencing. More than 15 million people worldwide have used Lotus Sametime technology to share information, make decisions faster and communicate
in real time.

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