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Benefits

 

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Management

 

IBM Lotus® Sametime® 7.5.1 is a platform for unified communications and collaboration, combining security features with an extensible, open framework.

To enable your organisation to quickly deploy IBM Lotus Sametime and start to benefit from an enterprise grade instant messaging system, BE Systems are able to offer FREE installation to accompany the FREE licensing available from IBM. BE Systems will install and integrate Sametime into your existing IBM or Microsoft environment and allow you to experience the benefits to your own organisation.

The FREE installation offer includes one day of on-site consultancy from BE Systems to install IBM Lotus Sametime v7.5.1 in conjunction with your existing support teams. The installation will include making available the various Lotus Sametime clients to allow you to deploy these to your users. To ensure that we deploy this successfully, we will need:

An installed and configured server, running with either Windows 2003, Linux or AIX

Support from your OS and AD or Lotus Domino teams

Access to your corporate Lotus Notes or Active Directory environment

Access to two test PCs to deploy the clients to

For point to point video and web conferencing - webcams and PC headsets for each trial user

BE Systems will then walk your teams through an installation of IBM Lotus Sametime and show you how to manage the trial. We'll also show you how to deploy the client to new users and how to fully evaluate the software.

Our brochure is also available for download.

Watch an IBM Sametime demonstration

Benefits

Simply put, every minute you wait you may be missing out on valuable business opportunities. IBM Lotus® Sametime® 7.5.1 software raises the bar in business collaboration and communication.

10 top benefits for your business.

Enhanced productivity
Free up time for activities that drive value for your organization. One tool for communicating: instant messaging (IM), voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) or Web conferencing.

Improved customer satisfaction
Allow employees to find the information they need from colleagues or vendors quickly and provide immediate answers to urgent questions.

Powerful security features
Sametime allows you to unlock new collaboration possibilities without opening your business up to new risks. Capabilities such as encryption and user authentication allow users to verify contacts and exchange sensitive information more safely.

Enhanced usability and choice
Tap into the latest, innovative collaboration - including enterprise IM, presence awareness, VoIP, mobile access and Web conferencing features - in one integrated solution.

Anytime, anywhere communications
Employees can communicate with outside business contacts using popular public IM services - AOL, Yahoo, Jabber - without compromising the security of internal communications.

Less travel
Employees can establish stronger business connections and stay in closer touch with worldwide business contacts without having to travel to meet them face to face.

A platform, not just a product
Sametime incorporates a host of business applications, processes and communication methods into a familiar, easy-to-use interface that helps reduce the need to develop new employee skills.

Unmatched flexibility
Sametime runs on a wide range of platforms, operating systems and devices - giving you greater choice as you select the optimal technologies to run your business while containing your TCO.

Better control over communications
Policy-based administration makes it even easier for IT staff to manage and protect access to - and maintain tighter control over - communications that impact how your organization is represented in the wider business community.

Proven reliability
IBM Lotus Sametime software is used by more companies worldwide than any other enterprise IM solution. So you can count on industry-leading IBM technology to help you compete more effectively in your fast-paced work environment.

Messaging

Tabbed chats
New tabbed chats coupled with the existing rich text, spell check, emoticons and integrated contact information, make it even easier to keep track of your conversations and keep your desktop organized. Consolidate all active chats into a single chat window. Choose whether you want to see user photos or names on the tabs and whether to place the tabs vertically or horizontally.

Video chats
New point-to-point video allows you can interact with your colleagues on a more personal basis. Convert your IM session into a video conversation.

Contact list
You can find your contacts easily through type-ahead search and you get their details through the integrated business card. A new plug-in makes getting to your favorite contacts even easier by letting you drag their photos to a special panel on your contact list and a new tool helps you remove contacts you haven't chatted with lately.

Chat history
You can keep track of conversations with the new features of the chat history viewer, including a built-in chat transcript search and the ability to create an e-mail containing the chat conversation of an active chat or one retrieved from your chat history.

Linux server support & Apple Macintosh IM client
Deploy Lotus Sametime instant messaging (and Web conferencing) on servers running Linux technologies. IBM Lotus Sametime Connect can run on a Mac.

Microsoft Office and Outlook integration
Out-of-the-box integration lets you launch Lotus Sametime capabilities - instant messaging, voice or video chat and Web conferencing sessions - directly inside of Microsoft Office & Microsoft Outlook.

Auto status change based on e-mail calendar
Choose to have your presence status automatically change when your IBM Lotus Notes / Microsoft Outlook calendar shows you in a meeting.

Saving and searching chat histories
Both one-to-one and multi-party chats can be saved and search in the chat histories.

Off the record mode
Select this mode to prevent people from saving sensitive chat conversations in their chat history.

Right-click to save emoticons
Like that emoticon your chat partner just used? Right click and add it directly to your emoticon palettes.

Plug-in management
New options let you hide or show the plug-in panels you may have optionally installed in your Lotus Sametime Connect client.

Automatically send e-mail if user is offline
If you try to send a message to a chat partner who has gone offline, you will be prompted to send the message via e-mail instead (with the chat conversation automatically included in the e-mail).

Screen capture annotation
Enhancements to the screen capture tool include the ability to annotate the screen capture - click and drag on the captured image to draw on it before sending it to your chat partner(s).

Expand All/Collapse All
Easily expand and collapse groups in your contact list using shortcut keys (Ctrl+ or Ctrl-).

Edit your spell check language
Change the language setting used by spell check.

Conferencing

Improved meeting center views
It's easier to find meetings, because the meeting center views show more meetings, and start with "today's" meetings.

Macintosh support
Attend meetings on your Macintosh. Edge-to-edge full-screen view: Full-screen mode now covers your entire screen, keyboard controls are available for advancing slides and alerts are available to indicate who has raised their hand as well as to notify participants of new group chat entries.

Faster meeting start-up
Web conferences are quicker to start up.

Improved application share performance
By default application sharing now uses a faster compression algorithm for quicker application sharing sessions.

Microsoft Outlook integration
Schedule and attend Lotus Sametime web conferences directly from your Microsoft Outlook calendar.

Send email when meetings are scheduled
An email message can automatically be sent to the meeting creator when meetings are scheduled or modified through the Sametime Meeting Center.

Log in/out from the meeting center
You can now log in or out directly from the sidebar in the Meeting Center pages.

Hide group chat in a meeting
Choose whether or not to include the group chat options in your meetings.

Turn off all in-meeting chat, via policy
Administrators can choose particular users who cannot chat during meetings. These users can view the group chat but can't type into it and can't send or receive person-to-person chats.

Capturing attendance
All attendees are listed in the Meeting Details page after a meeting ends.

Right-click menus
The content area now has a right-click menu where you can control how content is displayed and where presenters can advance slides.

Multi-select in participant list
Select and act on multiple people in the participant list.

Fully resizable left-hand sections
The left-hand sections in the meeting room can be fully resized or hidden entirely.

IP audio request mode
When using integrated audio you can either use:

Standard automatic mode - which switches from one user to the next automatically or

Request mode - where users choose to have the microphone and where they pass the microphone to the next user when they are done speaking.

Support for bi-directional languages
The meeting room now supports full bi-directional mirroring, including support for Hebrew and Arabic.

Native conversion of documents on UNIX and i5/OS
Convert documents uploaded to a Web conference on UNIX and i5/OS servers.

Management

At a glance - what’s new Administration Policies in v7.5.1

In Sametime v7.5.1 Administrators have the ability to:

Allow client-to-client file transfer

Allow client-to-client video chat

Allow users to install plug-ins

Allow mobile client

Allow custom emoticons

Allow screen captures and images

Set maximum image size for custom emoticons, screen captures and inline images

Limit the users’ contact list size

Set the maximum days to save automatically saved chat transcripts

Set the settings for sending meeting details by E-mail

Set the UDP port for voice chat

Set UDP port for video chat

Allow all Sametime Connect features to be used with integrated clients