IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing -IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime) 6.5.1 is IBM's market-leading product and platform for real-time collaboration. It is based on three on demand concepts
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Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime) is real-time collaboration software -- with online awareness, instant messaging, application sharing and virtual meetings. Lotus Sametime helps your organization be more responsive and more efficient by allowing your employees, customers, partners, and suppliers to easily interact with one another in real-time.
Real-time collaboration is a natural extension to e-mail. It's not just about chat; it's about using the Web to improve customer service, reduce travel costs, and create communities among your employees, customers, partners, and suppliers.
Whether the goal is to present a new program to a field sales force, brainstorm with partners about a new product design or offer live assistance to Web customers, Sametime for iSeries delivers real-time collaboration today. You don't need to use Lotus Notes for e-mail or even have a Notes client to use Sametime, all you need is your Web browser!
iSeries is an ideal platform for Sametime collaboration -- with an easy-to-manage infrastructure and low total cost of ownership. It shields the typical business user from worries about technical issues. The unique integrated architecture of iSeries delivers proven reliability, high availability and powerful single-footprint scalability to mid-market companies, so you can focus on your business rather than technology.
IBM Lotus software is transitioning many of its products to simpler, descriptive names designed to help make them more easily recognizable to customers. As part of this transition, the latest release of Lotus Sametime is named Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing, to represent the two specific functions the original name represents. For more information on this renaming project, please visit www.lotus.com/brand.
Managing Lotus Sametime -IBM's (Quote, Chart) Lotus Instant Messaging (formerly known as Sametime) might be a leader in the enterprise IM marketplace, but the large-scale deployments often seen with the product evince that it's no more invulnerable to the crashes and glitches than most other business software.
That's why there's an emerging market for tools designed to help enterprises get the most out of their investment in Lotus IM.