IBM has announced the availability of Lotus Sametime
7.5, which helps businesses to extend collaboration beyond instant
messaging and web conferencing to unified business
collaboration.
IBM says that as instant messaging evolves from a
person-to-person communication tool to the collaboration hub of an
organisation, the demand for secure, flexible and customisable
solutions increases.
The ability to “plug in” new functionality for instant messaging
using the Lotus Sametime client means a customer could tap into
voice, video and access data from other applications, to speed
productivity and work more efficiently.
“Lotus Sametime 7.5 is the first product to deliver a unified
collaboration platform that includes instant messaging, web
conferencing and voice capabilities,”
said Michael Rhodin, general manager for IBM Lotus Software.
“Today, customers can take advantage of a unified approach to
communications that can be easily extended based on open standards,
not proprietary code – putting customers in control of their
collaborative environment.”
With its open and flexible Eclipse-based framework, Lotus
Sametime 7.5 enables customers and third-party vendors to build and
deploy plug-ins quickly.
Cisco Systems and Dassault Systemes are among the first
third-party developers to produce new Sametime plug-ins for their
products.
Lotus Sametime 7.5 is currently available for £30 per user for a
perpetual software licence.
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