Online meetings with IBM Sametime software

Online meetings can help a social business activate networks of people that apply relevant content and expertise to improve and accelerate how things get done. Online meetings (web conferencing) allow rich collaboration within professional networks around the world—inside or outside the enterprise. Projects can be improved with insight from stakeholders and can be completed more quickly when teams don't have to wait for e-mail exchanges or travel to face-to-face meetings. You can spend less on travel. Lower telephony and audio conferencing expenses. And reduce or eliminate expensive recurring fees for hosted web conferencing services.

IBM Sametime® software lets you move seamlessly from a text chat to a voice/video chat to an online meeting. Sametime 8.5 software provides a new online meeting experience -- integrated into the IBM Sametime Connect client or accessed from a browser.

• Meetings panel. A new meetings panel provides a consolidated view of your calendar and makes starting or joining a meeting a single-click process. You won’t have to lose the first ten minutes of your meeting to sharing passcodes and meeting URLs.

• Reservationless meeting rooms. Use them once or keep them for ongoing meetings.

• Simple meeting invitations. Invite people to meetings by dragging and dropping from the contact list. Accept meetings with a single click just like joining a group chat.

• Photo and list view of attendees, including Active Speaker indicator. Sametime 8.5.2 IFR adds active speaker indication so you know who is speaking.

• Meeting room controls. With Sametime 8.5.2 software you can lock rooms or eject individual participants and prevent them from returning for a pre-configured period of time.

• Native high-quality audio and video capabilities with available integration into leading audio and video conferencing systems. Audio and video can enhance the collaborative experience by providing context through subtle signals, such as body language, that would otherwise be missing from a basic Web conference. With Sametime 8.5.2 software audio and video tools are extended to not only the Sametime rich client meeting interface, but also into web-browser-base online meetings.

• File, application and screen sharing.

• Meeting library. Upload meeting materials through a simple drag and drop step. Record the meeting to preserve application sharing and discussion.

• Browser-based meeting access. A zero-download client provides easy access to join and participate in online meetings. With Sametime 8.5.2 software, you can use the audio and video options; slide navigation and presenter annotation tools; and the updated polling feature available to rich-client meeting rooms.With Sametime 8.5.2 IFR1 you can have browser-based participation in Sametime online meetings from your Apple iPad or your Android tablet.

Watch a demonstration (MP4, 00:06:35 mins., 30.2MB) of Sametime 8.5 online meetings.
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IBM Sametime software is available in multiple editions to support the needs of your enterprise from the small office to the multinational conglomerate. Online meetings support is provided in IBM Sametime Standard software and IBM Sametime Advanced software. See the edition comparison table for more information.