Lotus Sametime Standard

Lotus Sametime software helps organizations communicate more effectively, reduce travel costs and burdens, decrease response times, and improve customer service.

In addition, Lotus Sametime software also provides an answer for organizations concerned about the security and compliance risks associated with the unmanaged use of public IM networks.

Lotus Sametime Standard software can help organizations:

• Resolve problems & questions through clear, high-quality communications
• Access global teams in real time
• Communicate quickly with anybody (where regulation permits and with policy controls in place)
• Create relationships with colleagues around the world
• Work with others as if they are in the same room
• Offer access to expertise and knowledge throughout the organization
• Provide all of this within a security-rich system that can help minimize risk and promote regulatory compliance

Lotus Sametime Standard supports a wide variety of server operating systems (including Linux), and a provides support for a wide variety of clients — including Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, and many supported mobile devices.

Lotus Sametime Standard software is a platform for UC² — and provides an extensible, open Web 2.0 solution that is supported by a robust community of IBM Business Partners who offer telephony and video integration solutions and services.

Lotus Sametime Standard software's capabilities include:

• Enterprise instant messaging and presence
• Rich text, time stamps, spell check and emoticons
• Multi-way chat
• Built-in VoIP and point-to-point video
• Out-of-the-box integration with desktop productivity applications such as IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft SharePoint. (See application integration page)
• Optional file transfer
• integrated chat histories
• Location awareness
• Contact list with type-ahead and search
• Contact Business cards
• Managed interoperability with supported public IM networks
• Web Conferencing
• Integration with supported audio, video, and telephony systems

• 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) (EXE, 22.5MB)
• Demo: IBM Lotus Sametime for IBM Lotus Notes users
• Demo: Unified Communications and Collaboration solutions in action
• Download a trial version of Lotus Sametime

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