It enables collaboration across boundaries:
- Presence-awareness – If you are online, what is your location and specifics, whether you are available or not – whether at your desk, home office, or mobile.
- Secure, enterprise-scale instant messaging
- Online meetings with integrated voice (VoIP) and high-quality desktop video
- Out-of-the-box integration with IBM Lotus, IBM WebSphere and Microsoft products
- Open application programming interfaces (APIs) and an extensible client
Features and benefits of IBM Lotus Sametime:
- Quick text chats can answer simple questions outright or can be escalated to multiway voice or video chats or an online meeting.
- Rich presence-awareness information lets you know whether now is a good time to initiate a real-time conversation via instant messaging or a phone/conference call. Sametime software can integrate multiple presence elements to provide a comprehensive view of someone's availability.
- Collaborate with online meetings that enable high-quality document-, application- and screen sharing.
- Extend many of the desktop Sametime client to a range of mobile devices.
- Integrate telephony and provide telephony features.
- Provide high-quality integrated desktop voice and video to help cut telephony costs.
- Community collaboration tools help people find, reach and collaborate with communities of users who may not be in their contact list.
- Deliver a consistent user experience with a flexible, security-rich, and standards-based unified communications and collaboration platform.
How it has helped me:
- Sametime enables me chat online with the collogues located at different locations around the world.
- It enables me to join the meeting online without actually traveling to the meeting location.
- Telephony features enable me to be online on Sametime through my mobile phone.
- I can give presentations to my clients located far apart by sharing my PC screen through Sametime.
Systems requirement for IBM Lotus Sametime:
- CPU - Intel Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz processor or higher.
- RAM - 2 GB minimum.
- Disk space - 5 GB free disk space recommended. 3 GB minimum.
- Disk swap space - 1 GB minimum.
- Network card -1000Mbit/s recommended.
- Operating system- All Windows with versions XP and above, Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x.
