Software supports instant messaging to wireless devices.
Press Release Summary:
Designed for traveling users, Lotus® Sametime® Everyplace(TM) v3.0 lets users communicate, collaborate, and work from anywhere at any time. Built on platform for real-time collaboration, software provides presence awareness and instant messaging to wireless devices. Product offers end-to-end security with 128-bit encryption for new Sametime Connect clients, maximum log-in attempts, device ID checking, and IP blocking.
Original Press Release:
IBM Lotus Instant Messaging Everyplace (Lotus Sametime Everyplace) 3.0 Enables Wireless Instant Messaging for e-business
At a glance
Lotus Sametime Everyplace 3.0 delivers:
· New functions and extends the PC-based Lotus Sametime offering
· Instant business messaging to wireless devices
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: SE001).
Overview
Lotus® Sametime® is the market-leading platform from IBM for real-time collaboration. Over nine million people use it every day - whether wired or wireless - to share information, make faster decisions, and work together in real time. With Lotus Sametime Everyplace(TM), organizations have an ideal way to bring presence awareness (knowing who is online and available), and instant messaging to business users with wireless devices such as mobile phones and PDAs.
What's new in V3.0
Lotus Sametime Everyplace 3.0 includes:
· J2ME MIDP support
· Sametime Connect client for the Palm
· Sametime Connect client for the PocketPC
· End-to-end security (128-bit encryption) for new Sametime Connect clients
· Maximum log-in attempts
· Device ID checking
· IP blocking
· Ability to run on Lotus Domino(TM) 6.02
Lous Sametime Everyplace, like Lotus Sametime, with its robust, secure, and manageable functions, was engineered from the beginning to function as a tool for e-business. Any organization that needs to increase its productivity, be more efficient, work faster, or increase its agility further benefits from using Lotus Sametime Everyplace. Business users can communicate, collaborate, and work from virtually anywhere, at any time, with any wireless device.
Key prerequisites
· For Microsoft(TM) Windows®: Lotus Domino 6.02 CF1 (included)
· Lotus Domino Everyplace SMS (included)
· Lotus Sametime 3.0 with SP1 and IF2a, or Lotus Sametime 3.1
Planned availability dates
· July 8, 2003 (electronic software delivery)
· July 18, 2003 (media and documentation)
Description
Lotus Sametime Everyplace provides mobile users with the same instant messaging features and presence awareness capabilities of Lotus Sametime for wireless devices. It is designed specifically for traveling users who need to collaborate with colleagues, customers, and business partners who are back at their office and vice versa.
Lotus Sametime Everyplace is ideal in today's fast-paced business environment. Lotus Sametime Everyplace users in organizations big and small and in all industry sectors can:
· Determine who is online at their desk and who is online on a wireless device
· Decide the best way to communicate via instant message, phone call, or e-mail
· Seamlessly send and receive instant messages
· Save time and reduce typing with custom, quick text messages
· Predefine logon, logoff, and free and busy times
· Use preferred wireless device
· Stay productive anywhere
Because Lotus Sametime Everyplace has many of the same capabilities of Lotus Sametime, users can easily move between a desktop and a mobile device.
Lotus Sametime Everyplace helps organizations reduce the cost of a dispersed workforce, while optimizing communications and collaboration. The benefits of business instant messaging and presence awareness are always available. Users can consult with colleagues in real time, keep workflow moving, resolve issues faster, stay informed, and respond to customers' needs instantaneously. Lotus Sametime Everyplace is ideal for collaborative e-business from virtually anywhere, at any time, with any wireless device.
For more information on Lotus Sametime Everyplace, visit:
http://www.lotus.com/sametime
Trademarks
Everyplace and Domino are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.
Lotus and Sametime 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.
Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.
