Sametime Is A Winner For Instant Collaboration

In case you haven’t noticed, IBM Lotus not only didn’t go away, it’s here with a vengeance.....Sametime’s pushing the envelope on real-time collaboration at a global scale - Source: Forrester Research December 2009

"Excellent" Rating - Gartner Marketscope for Enterprise Instant Messaging & Presence 2007, 2008 and 2009 - Source: Gartner January 2010

Product Of The Year: IBM Lotus Sametime has been named the 2008 North American Enterprise Product of the Year by leading global growth consulting company Frost & Sullivan. Products are assessed based on their competitive advantage, significance to the marketplace and uniqueness of features and capabilities. "IBM Lotus came out swinging with its Sametime unified communications and collaboration product suite," said Melanie Turek, Frost & Sullivan. "One of the key things that makes Sametime standout from competitors is that it supports multi-vendor environments, which are the norm for most mid- and large-size organizations today." - Source: Frost & Sullivan March 2008

Stop Press: Sametime Podcast
Gabriella Davis of Turtle and Carl Tyler of Epilio talk about Sametime 8.5 in the first UCHear podcast - "In our.....podcast, we start by giving you an insight into some of the things you’ll find in Sametime 8.5 and many of the things you’ll need to prepare for." Carl and Gabriella have presented at Collaboration University - and at other events such as Lotusphere, AdminCamp and UKLUG. You can hear it here

Turtle Have Proven Sametime Development And Support Services
Turtle have proven experience in successful development for Lotus Sametime - the leading unified collaboration platform from IBM Lotus. We further provide tailored high-level Sametime support packages to meet the needs of specific customers. Support means having someone you can rely on to take up an issue or a problem and see it through to a resolution - and that's what Turtle gives you for your Sametime infrastructure.

Turtle also share our development and support experience with the IT community, speaking on Sametime development and administration at such conferences as Collaboration University and Lotusphere.

To learn more about our Sametime services please contact Mike Smith or call +44 (0)20 8941 6994.

Stop Press: Collaboration University 2010 is coming!
With a deep-dive technical focus on Lotus Quickr and Sametime, related integration and strategy sessions, and expertise concentrated in one place, you get the most in-depth training possible, with unprecedented access to well-known industry experts."This great little conference has had such an impact on the skills of so many people that we often hear back months - and even years - from attendees, with success stories linking back to what they learned from our experts" says Rob Novak of CU. You can see more at http://www.collaborationuniversity.com

UC2Ready Assessment Gives You Easier Deployment Of Sametime 8.5
Lotus Sametime 8.5 offers companies a core set of integrated real-time communications services - voice, data and video - that make it easy for people to find, reach and collaborate effectively with colleagues, customers and business partners. Epilio and The Turtle Partnership have come together to help customers speed the deployment of Lotus Sametime 8.5 with the UC2Ready™ Assessment. A UC2Ready™ assessment for Lotus Sametime will allow your organization to plan and prepare for the deployment of Sametime 8.5, providing a high-level summary and planning document with a number of components to enable your organization to successfully deploy Lotus Sametime 8.5.

For further information or answers to any of your questions on IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5 please contact us - Epilio: Sales@epilio.com - 
US Tel: +1-866-9 Epilio www.epilio.com or The Turtle Partnership: mikes@turtlepartnership.com - UK Tel: +44 (0)20 8941 6994 
www.turtlepartnership.com

Sametime Lets You Do More - And Do It Faster
Your people needs rapid secure connection, and effective tools for collaboration - and that is where Sametime delivers.

It lets everyone, everywhere see who is available and enables them to instantly chat securely. Teams can work faster and more effectively - no matter where they are. It also gives you quick communication without the overhead of email. Sametime Instant Messaging saves time, saves travel, saves money.

You can set up a private team space very easily. Once there you can make contact with any number of people, share files and initiate spontaneous online conferences. You can even link to their BlackBerry so they can chat anywhere anytime. Plus you can also integrate directly with your current online applications - so for example you can let people chat to your sales team instantly through your website.

Sametime Is Ready For Business
Sametime means you can now chat with your colleagues in real-time through instant messaging, or using VoIP or video, have web conferences with audio and video, share files and web pages, and record your meeting so that others can see it later. Sametime now offers you a very powerful family of collaboration tools.

Sametime also has some great features including:

Improved Instant Messaging

• Enhanced Microsoft Office Integration - with a new, optional, Lotus Sametime toolbar for Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Excel so you can start chats inside Microsoft Office. Lotus Sametime Standard now supports Microsoft Office and Microsoft Outlook, and makes it easier to install the Microsoft Office integration components. Plus IBM Lotus Notes users can use smart tags in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Apple Macintosh ready with Apple Leopard OS support, point-to-point video, location awareness, alerts -- bouncing dock icon -- on new and incoming IMs, and you can now launch Lotus Sametime Connect at startup.
• Lotus Sametime Mobile enhancements including support for new devices, enhanced new message notification, and up to 50% reduction in idle power/bandwidth consumption
• New screen capture annotation tools so you can now draw lines, arrows, squares, and circles
• Updated screen capture capabilities to let you highlight screen captures before sending them to a chat partner, and you can now capture a screen and copy or save it as an image file -- even if you’re not in a chat.
• Chat date stamps in chat transcripts.
• Contact search and icons now always accessible.l
• Contact search and icons: Now always accessible because are they are now located above the plugin panel
• Plugin management lets you automatically migrate prior-installed plugins
• New options for Single Sign-On (SSO) for Microsoft Windows users.

The Growing Family Of Sametime Collaboration Tools
You can now meet your specific business needs through the enhanced range of Sametime products, the provide a full range of collaboration capabilites such as Awareness, Mobile Chat, Conferencing and Telephony Integraiton. Sametime tools enable yo to get the maximum benefit from better collaboration:

First there are the core Sametime tools - Advanced, Standard, Entry and Entitlement.....

Lotus Sametime Advanced
Lotus Sametime Advanced software includes all of the capabilities of Sametime Standard software but combined with new collaborative capabilities such as persistent group chat, instant screen sharing plus knowledge search and retrieval tools. Advanced helps make it easy to find info, share expertise, engage in ongoing conversations, instantly share your desktop and automatically store and reuse location information. You can see more about Sametime Advanced here

Lotus Sametime Standard
This is a market-leading platform for UC˛. It offers integrated, enterprise instant messaging, VoIP, video chats, and Web conferencing capabilities with the security features required for business use. Lotus Sametime Standard is the upgrade/entitlement path for customers who are entitled for previous releases of Lotus Sametime. You can see more about Sametime Standard here

Lotus Sametime Entry
Offers encrypted, authenticated, scalable, and proven enterprise instant messaging capabilities. Entry is designed for companies looking to get started with enterprise instant messaging at an affordable price. You can see more about it here

Lotus Sametime Limited Use Entitlement
If you already have a valid licence for Lotus Notes & Domino 6.5.1 or higher it entitles you to free use of the excellent presence awareness and instant chat in your Notes Client. You see more about Entitlement here

And you can make collaboration mobile....

Sametime Mobile
IBM Lotus Sametime Mobile now supports more devices on their client platforms. Sametime Instant Messaging is a great tool for handhelds and mobiles such as the BlackBerry. You can use your handheld or mobile to instantly see who is available and chat "live" wherever you are. You can read more about Mobile here

"Mobile instant messaging remains the fastest growing segment of the instant messaging market. The spread of smartphones and unlimited data plans will help organizations project communications costs and only encourage the spread of mobile instant messaging."
Source: Osterman Research September 2008

And use Sametime Unyte Share and LotusLive Meetings for 'cloud' based IM and conferencing....

Lotus Sametime Unyte Share & LotusLive Meetings
These are hosted 'cloud based' voice, video and web conferencing services provided under LotusLive from IBM. Its quick to acquire and very simple to use. You can see more about Unyte and LotusLive Meetings here

And integrate telephony into your desktop.....

Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony
Lotus SUT gives you the immediacy of instant messaging combined with telephone capabilities, right on your desktop, so that people can find, reach and collaborate with one another more effectively.Sametime Unified Telephony integrates telephony from multi-vendor Private Branch Exchange (PBX) systems to give you a unified end user experience - so you get integrated softphones, phone and IM presence awareness and call control & rules-based call management across multiple communications systems. You can read more about Sametime Unified Telephony here


Free Trial Right Now
You can have a free 14 day online trial of Lotus Sametime - easily and quickly right from your own desktop - just contact us for details or call +44(0)20 8941 6994.



Collaboration University for IBM Lotus Sametime and Quickr - Deep-Dive Technical Event

Collaboration University for IBM Lotus Sametime and Quickr is a unique series of deep-dive technical events focusing on these great collaboration products. CU is held in both Chicago and London each year and has proved very successful, here's some great feedback from CU 2009: "The sessions at Collaboration University are being given by a great team and each speaker really knows what (s)he is talking about! Thank you all for figuring this all out and then sharing this with the rest of us. I’m proud the be a 2009 CU-graduate and really hope to be back next year."

As organiser Rob Novak of SNAPPS says: "Collaboration University is the only conference worldwide focused specifically on Lotus's Web 2.0 technologies, and is delivered and produced by leading industry experts." To see more please go to http://www.collaborationuniversity.com