IBM Lotus Sametime Software Integration with Microsoft applications

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IBM Lotus Sametime software integration with
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Connecting, conversing and collaborating more conveniently® ®IBM Lotus Sametime software is an award-
winning platform for realtime collaboration. For years, organizations of all types have taken advantage of the Lotus Sametime plat-form's powerful, security-enhanced features, such as integrated presence awareness, instant messaging (IM), Web conferencing, voice and video, to help people quickly find, reach and collaborate with each other. In addition, IBM Lotus Sametime software ®integrates out of the box with Microsoft applications, giving you direct access to a comprehensive set of collaboration capabilities without having to leave the Microsoft Office or SharePoint environment.
Talk and meet without leaving your Microsoft Office applicationsFrom within your Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel applications, you can take advantage of a broad set of Lotus Sametime capabilities, including these:
. Presence awareness. Names within your Microsoft documents are IM-aware, which means you can see if a document author-or any name included in a document-is online. Say you're reviewing a client proposal, and you come across a project estimate that you want to verify. With presence awareness, you can see immediately-directly from the proposal-that the writer is online and available to answer your questions.. Business-class instant messaging. IM capabilities within your Microsoft documents can help you get information and answers quickly, so you can get on with your work. Want to verify a data point in an Excel spreadsheet? There's no need to leave the spreadsheet to start a chat, a voice call or even a videoconference.. Web conferencing. Some projects require collaboration to move them along, which is why you can now initiate Web conferences directly from your Microsoft Office applica-tions. Imagine that you're working on a chart within a PowerPoint presentation, and it needs some refining. With Web conferencing, you can share the presentation with team members in realtime and even jointly edit it live, saving the time you'd otherwise take sending e-mails or managing multiple versions of the content.
Figure 1. Finding and connecting with the people you need is easy and more convenient with presence awareness, chat and Web conferencing capabilities integrated with your Microsoft Office applications.
2Get more done from within your Microsoft Outlook applicationMicrosoft Outlook users can also take advantage of Lotus Sametime features directly from their in-boxes, making it easier to find and talk with people within the context of their e-mails. For instance, you've received an e-mail that's prompted some ques-tions about a project. With presence awareness and IM, you can instantly see if the person who sent you the e-mail is online and then start a conversation with a simple click. You can then share files and screen captures. You can also escalate to a voice call or audio/videoconference. Figure 2. A toolbar along the top of your in-box lets you see if the sender of an e-mail is available, Web conferencing is just as convenient. You can schedule a Web conference, along as well as initiate chats through IM or VoIP with a simple click of a command button.with your meeting, directly from your Outlook calendar. The Outlook application will prompt you for all the Web conference details and will include the URL in the meeting invitation sent out to all participants.
Reach out to colleagues from your Microsoft SharePoint site Lotus Sametime software has recently added out-of-the-box integration to Microsoft SharePoint software without requiring modifications to existing SharePoint sites. Any live name indicates online presence, and a simple click presents the comprehensive suite of Sametime capabilities.
Unify your communications capabilitiesLotus Sametime software continues to help you unify your communications and col-laboration capabilities, which can help reduce costs and simplify the way people work Figure 3. Any SharePoint live name is lit up with together in realtime. In addition to IM, Web conferencing, public IM federation and online status information, so you can readily see who is available and then start your collaboration mobile clients, Lotus Sametime software provides advanced ... [download for more]