Lotus Sametime helps IT managers
Today's IT managers are challenged to make the most of fixed resources and budgets, while bringing the best-in-class unified communications and collaboration solutions to their organizations — cost effectively.
These solutions must also help increase business flexibility and responsiveness, and ultimately produce a more agile organization that can compete and react to market changes and pressures.
IT managers who want to deliver real-time unified communications and collaboration solutions to their organizations look to Lotus Sametime software.
Lotus Sametime software provides an encrypted, authenticated environment which can help you:
- Deliver realtime unified communications and collaboration capabilities to traditional and mobile workers through the applications they use everyday: IBM Lotus Notes®, Microsoft® Office, Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft SharePoint. (See application integration page.)
- Improve the efficiency of communications.
- Protect confidential information and assets.
- Reduce the number of communications tools you need to support.
- Control unapproved and expensive web conferences.
- Offer access to expertise and knowledge throughout your organization.
- Control and manage the use of unsecured public IM networks.
- Prepare yourself for the next generation of the Internet. Both Lotus Sametime Standard 8.0.2 and Lotus Sametime Entry 8.0.2 support Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6).
- Provide all of this within a security-rich system that can help minimize risk and promote regulatory compliance.
Lotus Sametime is open and extensible software for unifying communications and collaboration, so you can confidently support your customers and deliver tangible return on IT and telephony investments.
Lotus Sametime capabilities such as presence, instant messaging, on-premise and Web conferencing services, VoIP, telephony, audio and video integration are accessible via the Lotus Sametime unified user experience.
Lotus Sametime software is the core software platform of the IBM Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC² ™) strategy.
Technical services are available to assist you. IBM Software Services for Lotus provides instant messaging and Web conferencing technical services. IBM Global Technology Services provides assessment, design and implementation services to support UC solutions.
Lotus Sametime is easier for IT managers to support
With Lotus Sametime, it's easy to integrate your existing software and telephony infrastructure — without rip and replacing what you already have and without losing the investments you have already made.
Lotus Sametime software provides IT managers with compelling total cost of ownership, based on Lotus Sametime software's unmatched scalability and no-charge federation with supported public IM networks.
With Lotus Sametime, you have the flexibility to deploy communication and collaboration capabilities on multiple platforms and a wide variety of mobile devices.
Self-service training available for users
The Multimedia Library for IBM Lotus Sametime provides tutorials and short video clips explaining how to perform essential tasks in Sametime. This can help speed adoption and reduce technical support costs. The multimedia library is now available for purchase here.
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Trials and demos
- Demo: IBM Lotus Sametime 8 (EXE, 20.7MB)
- Demo: IBM Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony software (EXE, 14.8MB)
- Demo: IBM Lotus Sametime 8 user experience features
- Demo: IBM Lotus Sametime for Microsoft software users (December 2008)
- Demo: IBM Lotus Sametime for IBM Lotus Notes users
- Demo: Unified Communications and Collaboration solutions in action
- Download a trial version of Lotus Sametime