Software enables real-time collaboration over Web.
Press Release Summary:
Lotus® Sametime® v3.1 instant messaging and Web conferencing software for e-business supports individual presence awareness, real-time text- or audio/video-based conversation, and Web conferences with application sharing and team whiteboarding. Users are able to control their awareness state from within meeting room center. Software includes support for IBM Lotus Domino(TM) 6.0.2, UNIX® Client, Sun JVM (JDK 1.4), and Netscape 7.
Original Press Release:
IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Lotus Sametime) 3.1 Enables E-Business
At a glance
Version 3.1 of Lotus Sametime, IBM's instant messaging and Web conferencing offering for e-business, adds to the product's proven strengths with:
· Support for a broader range of related products
· Numerous usability enhancements
· Performance upgrades for the Sametime Links server application
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: SE001).
Overview
Lotus® Sametime® is IBM's market-leading platform for instant collaboration. More than 9 million people use it every day to share information, make faster decisions, and work together in real time. Engineered from the beginning to be a tool for e-business, it is more robust, secure, and manageable than any competitive offerings.
Lotus Sametime is based on three basic concepts:
· Presence awareness (seeing, in advance, a person's availability)
· Conversation (text or audio/video based)
· Web conferences (application sharing and team whiteboarding)
Any organization that needs to increase its productivity, be more efficient, work faster, reduce travel budgets, integrate real-time collaboration into Web applications, or increase its agility will benefit from using IBM Lotus Sametime.
What's new in Version 3.1
Lotus Sametime 3.1 includes:
· IBM Lotus Domino(TM) 6.0.2 support
· UNIX® Client support
· Sun JVM (JDK 1.4) support
· Netscape 7 support
· Meeting participant control of their awareness state (for example, Do Not Disturb) from within the meeting room center
· Different icon in the Participants List for the meeting Presenter or Moderator
· IBM Lotus Notes® calendar and scheduling integration
· Support for maintaining a meeting attendee roster
· Support for secure meetings
· Reverse proxy support
· Community services
· Buddy List privacy
· Buddy List portlet
· Performance upgrades for the Sametime Links server application
· Fixed window size and place
· Login with status
· Enlarged Buddy List limit, from 32K to 60K
· New error message when exceeding the 60K Buddy List limit
· New option for local Buddy List storage
· Exhaustive search in "Add user" dialog
· New error message when "Add user" fails
Key prerequisites
· Operating system: Windows® 2000 Server, or Windows Advanced Server with Service Pack 2
· CPU: Pentium II 400 MHz (or higher)
· RAM: 1 GB recommended; 512 MB minimum
· Disk space: 1 GB+ free disk space recommended to allow space for meetings; 500 MB minimum
Planned availability dates
· July 8, 2003 (electronic software delivery)
· July 25, 2003 (media and documentation)
Description
IBM Lotus Sametime, the market-leading platform for real-time collaboration, improves corporate culture through innovative technologies. Lotus Sametime helps teams be more productive, enables greater customer satisfaction, and ultimately makes organizations more competitive. An integrated business instant messaging and Web conferencing offering, Lotus Sametime is based on three concepts:
1. Presence Awareness. See, in advance, if a person - or even an application - is available to collaborate, share information, and/or take action.
2. Conversation. Exchange text-, audio-, and/or video-based information in real time.
3. Web Conferencing. Virtually share a document, an application, or an entire desktop, or engage in team whiteboarding activities.
Though basic in nature, these capabilities enable organizations to be more productive in today's business environment. With the help of Lotus Sametime, organizations big and small, in all industry sectors, are able to:
· Effectively collaborate, and align the objectives of leaders and teams, whether centralized or geographically dispersed
· Easily monitor customers' demands, and respond more quickly than competitors
· Establish, and feel part of, a community working toward common goals
· Access people instantly - whoever they are, wherever they are, in whatever context they prefer
Organizations that deploy Lotus Sametime will be able to increase individual and team productivity while realizing quantifiable cost savings. Here are a few of the many advantages of Lotus Sametime:
· Significant cost savings based on reduction in long-distance telephone calls, internally and externally focused business travel, and e-mail storage
· Increased responsiveness to everyone along the extended value chain
· Streamlined communications with colleagues, customers, business partners, and suppliers
· Enhanced collaboration within the organization - spontaneous and planned
· Contextual collaboration in practice including person-to-person, person-to-application, and application-to-person
It's no wonder that nine million plus people use Lotus Sametime every day to communicate, collaborate, and work in new ways! Lotus Sametime is a primary e-business tool of choice. For more information on Lotus Sametime, visit our Web site at:
http://www.lotus.com/sametime
Trademarks
Domino is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.
Lotus, Sametime, and Lotus Notes are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.
Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Company in the United States and other countries.
Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.
