Stanislav Olšar



IBM Sametime 8

Lotus Sametime Entry

Lotus Sametime Entry provides a cost-effective solution to adopting enterprise instant messaging (IM). It allows your organization to benefit from the collaborative advantages of IM, without the risk associated with using a public, unencrypted IM service. Its features include presence-awareness, encrypted IM with n-way chats, and integration with Microsoft Office, IBM Lotus Notes 8.0, and Microsoft Outlook.

 

Lotus Sametime Standard

Building on top of Lotus Sametime Entry, Lotus Sametime Standard provides a complete collaborative solution with the following features (in addition to the features provided with Lotus Sametime Entry):

  • Web conferencing
  • Video
  • Telephony integration, VoIP within the enterprise
  • Mobile clients
  • Support for integration with public IM services through the Lotus Sametime Gateway

 

Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony

NOTE: Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony has not been released at the time of publication of this article.

Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony is a planned offering that will provide a powerful solution to integrate telephony with the Lotus Sametime infrastructure for a truly unified experience.

The planned features of Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony are:

  • Aggregated telephony and IM presence
  • Initiation of telephone call or conference through software (click-to-call)
  • Incoming call management
  • Multiple PBX integration

 

Lotus Sametime Unyte

Lotus Sametime Unyte is a hosted service providing easy-to-use Web conferencing. A Web browser allows you to set up and run a Web conference for multiple participants in minutes. The service is hosted, and no infrastructure is required to use it.