
The IBM unified communications and collaboration (UC²) vision is to make it easier for colleagues, customers and partners to find, reach and collaborate with one another through an integrated unified communications experience. IBM offers unified communications and collaboration solutions with enterprise IM, presence information, Web and video conferencing and built-in Voice over IP capabilities to help meet your expanding real time collaboration needs.
Featured Unified Communications and Collaboration software

Lotus Sametime Standard
Converse online real time with one or several people using instant messaging. Then launch a Web conference to share a document, application or your entire desktop.

Lotus Sametime Entry
Provides a way for organisations to get started with enterprise instant messaging.

Lotus Sametime Advanced (US)
Includes the capabilities of Lotus Sametime Standard software, and expands them with advanced personal, team and community collaboration capabilities.

Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony (US)
Integrates telephony into real time communications with a unified end user experience, including integrated softphones; phone and IM presence awareness; and call management and call control across multiple systems.
Products and services with integrated real time capabilities
Combines email, calendar and scheduling capabilities. Offers your employees business-critical collaboration tools, designed to help you increase not only personal and team productivity, but overall organisational responsiveness.
Provides world-class collaboration capabilities that can be deployed as a core email and enterprise scheduling infrastructure, as a business application platform, or both.
IBM Lotus Domino Designer (US)
Based on the Lotus Notes for Collaboration client, including integrated instant messaging. Adds a comprehensive, easy-to-use application development environment that leverages open standards.
Hosted online collaboration, meeting and mail services for inter-company collaboration. Some of the service offerings provide, or will soon provide, Web conferencing or instant messaging.

