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IBM Unified communications and collaboration

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The IBM unified communications and collaboration (UC² ™) vision is to make it easier for colleagues, customers and partners to find, reach and collaborate with one another through an integrated unified communications experience. IBM offers unified communications and collaboration solutions with enterprise IM, presence information, Web and video conferencing and built-in Voice over IP capabilities to help meet your expanding realtime collaboration needs.

Unified Communications and Collaboration software

  • IBM Lotus Sametime Advanced

    Includes the capabilities of Lotus Sametime Standard software, and expands them with advanced personal, team and community collaboration capabilities.

  • IBM Lotus Sametime Standard

    Converse online real-time with one or several people using instant messaging. Then launch a Web conference to share a document, application or your entire desktop.

  • IBM Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony

    Integrates telephony into realtime communications with a unified end user experience, including integrated softphones; phone and IM presence awareness; and call management and call control across multiple systems. Available now.

  • IBM Lotus Sametime Entry

    Provides a way for organizations to get started with enterprise instant messaging.

Products and services with integrated real-time capabilities

Includes enterprise email, calendaring and scheduling with integrated business instant messaging and a rapid application development platform.

Based on the Lotus Notes for Collaboration client, including integrated instant messaging. Adds a comprehensive, easy-to-use application development environment that leverages open standards.

Provides an accelerator for WebSphere Portal that helps organizations speed the implementation of personalized, portal-based performance dashboards.

Provides a single point of personalized interaction with applications, content, process and people. Includes integrated Lotus Sametime instant messaging and Lotus QuickPlace.

Hosted online collaboration, meeting and mail services for inter-company collaboration. Some of the service offerings provide, or will soon provide, Web conferencing or instant messaging.