Unified Communications + Collaboration = IBM's UC² Strategy

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

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 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 now available to help business integrate telephony into realtime communications and use unified communications to work smarter and faster. Use the Software and Services links below.

• VoiceCon Orlando 2009 video: IBM Keynote – Bob Picciano
• Webcast: Lotusphere 2009 - IBM UC² solutions: Reduce Costs and Unleash the Collaborative Power of Your Company

• Demo: Sametime Unified Telephony(EXE 14.8MB)
• Webcast: Brent Kelley (Wainhouse Research) and IBM discuss Work Smarter with Telephony Integration and UC² Solutions from IBM
• Demo: UC and Collaboration solutions in Action
• Video: Don't try this at work

Podcast: A Vision for UC - IBM's Akiba Saeedi (MP3, 2.6MB)

• Analysis: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for UC includes IBM (12 September 2008) (PDF, 313KB)
• Winner: 2008 Frost & Sullivan Green Excellence award to IBM (76KB)
• Other news and awards
• White paper: Extending the value of UC with Lotus Sametime (378KB)
• UC solutions from IBM Business Partners
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