Online meetings (web conferencing) can help a social business activate networks of people to make faster expertise-based decisions, speed up business processes and address customer needs. Online meetings allow rich social collaboration within professional networks around the world—inside or outside the enterprise without travel costs. 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 lower telephony and audio conferencing expenses and reduce or eliminate expensive recurring fees for hosted web conferencing services.
IBM® Sametime® software lets you move simply and seamlessly from a text chat to a voice/video chat to an online meeting. Sametime 8.5 software provides an online meeting experience -- integrated into the IBM Sametime Connect client or accessed from a browser.
- Meetings panel. Easily find and join meetings from your Sametime client, which displays a consolidated view of your scheduled meetings, provides instant access to meeting rooms in the meetings panel and lets you invite people to meetings and accept invitations with a single click.
- 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 manage access to rooms and eject individual participants, preventing them from returning for a pre-configured period of time.
- Native high-quality audio and video capabilities. Enhance social communications with audio and video conferencing features that allow you to see colleagues and their reactions, without the time and expense of travel. 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 with people inside or outside the company using security-rich features, including audio and video.
- Meeting library. Upload meeting materials through a simple drag and drop step. Record the meeting to preserve application sharing and discussion.
- Online meeting access from your desktop, laptop, Apple iPhone, Apple iPad or Google Android-based smartphone or tablet. A zero-download client provides easy access to join and participate in online meetings from your computer. 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.
Watch a demonstration
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of Sametime 8.5 online meetings.
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Seven screenshots of Sametime online meetings
Participate in online meetings with your mobile device.
Participate in online meetings from a browser on your Android smartphone or tablet, Apple iPhone or Apple iPad
Easily launch or join an online meeting.
Launch or join an online meeting simply from your Sametime Connect client.
Conduct online meetings to share content.
Conduct online meetings to share a presentation, document, or your desktop with your meeting participants.
Use group chat and other online meeting features
In addition to screensharing, online meeting features, such as group chat (shown here), and shared web pages help make meetings more productive
Take a poll during your online meeting.
Polls can take the pulse of the team and help make meetings more productive.
Use audio in an online meeting.
Use our audio or yours in an online meeting. Optional audio integration in web conference can work with supported telephony environments to let you manage the audio part of your meeting and run your web conferences smoothly.
Use video in an online meeting.
You can easily use video in your online meeting. All you need is a supported video camera.
