IBM Unified Communications

Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC²™) solutions from IBM go beyond simply combining communications channels. Our vision is to add the power of collaboration to the equation, so your users can easily find, reach and collaborate with each other.

• Technical White Paper: Beyond converged networks: driving business value through unified communications and collaboration (US)

The IBM UC² vision is to foster innovation and business agility by making it easer for people to find, reach and collaborate with one another through a unified communications experience — right from their familiar devices, applications, and processes. So people are only one or two clicks away from collaboration.

Integrating unified communications and collaboration in a rich, multimedia experience — one that can include unified telephony, voice, video, instant messaging, Web conferencing, e-mail, voice mail, and business processes and applications — enables a whole new way for people, teams and communities to find experts and make faster, better decisions.

The IBM UC² strategy is to deliver — in partnership with the leading telephony, audio, and video vendors — complete software, services and hardware solutions for unified communications and collaboration. These solutions, which include IBM Lotus® Sametime® software and services from IBM Global Technology Services, offer a simple, unified user experience that seamlessly integrates with multivendor environments. And the open ecosystem and open standards based software allow you to leverage and extend your IT and telephony investments to help make users more productive, speed business processes and reduce overall costs.

IBM Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony software and services are expected to be available in July of 2009 to help business integrate telephony into realtime communications and use unified communications to work smarter and faster. Use the Software link below for information on Sametime Unified Telephony software. And use the Services link for IBM Converged Communications Services for Sametime Unified Telephony and other UC services.