IBM Community Collaboration Solution Tuesday, Oct 21 2008 

General and Sametime ozkanerk 11:34 am

IBM Community Collaboration solution is composed of Lotus Connections, Lotus Sametime, and IBM Lotus Quickr. It provides ability to organizations to communicate instantly, share information, network, and manage teams. With the Community Collaboration bundle, the integration of these products provides additional key features to an organization. For example following integration scenarios could be considered:

  • Integration between Lotus Sametime and Lotus Quickr lets users directly accessing Lotus Quickr Place content within the Lotus Sametime Connect client.
  • Integration between Lotus Sametime and Lotus Connections lets users saving chats to Activities or Community forums, viewing Activities from Lotus Sametime, and viewing Profile information from the buddy list.
  • Integration between Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connections lets by using RSS feeds, a Lotus Quickr Place user can bring additional content from Lotus Connections into a Lotus Quickr Place.

For a detailed integration scenarios and benefits, click here.

 

Lotus Sametime’s Enterprise Instant Messaging Capabilities Friday, Oct 17 2008 

Sametime ozkanerk 12:45 pm

Here are some highlighted Enterprise Instant Messaging Capabilities of Lotus Sametime:

  • Rich text chat, built-in file transfer, business cards, spell check and VoIP are several of Lotus Sametime’s  enterprise instant messaging capabilities.
  • Lotus Sametime has built-in VoIP feature which means when the time is right it is possible for you to talk to your colleagues.
  • Lotus Sametime is designed to work with a variety of 3rd party applications like the ability to start chats right from Microsoft Outlook Inbox.
  • Lotus Sametime software can work with Microsoft Office Smart tags, so that it is possible for you to right-click a person’s name and start a chat immediately.
  • The screen grab tool can be used to share (and annotate) parts of the desktop with your chat partner.
  • Lotus Sametime provides videos chats for the participants.
  • Lotus Sametime supports plugins so that you can extend Lotus Sametime to suit the organization’s needs.