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IBM Lotus Sametime was selected as the Winner of the 2008 North American Enterprise Product of the Year Award by Frost & Sullivan.
Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry.
The Frost & Sullivan Award for Product of the Year is presented each year to the company that has demonstrated excellence in new product development and launch within its industry. The recipient company has shown innovation by launching a broad line of emerging products and technologies.
According to Frost & Sullivan: "IBM Lotus came out swinging with its Sametime unified communications product suite in 2007, and it has made significant strides developing a line of unified communications products that deliver complete solutions, or let customers test the UC waters. With IBM Lotus Sametime, IBM offers a complete UC platform, thanks to its homegrown IM, conferencing, presence and collaboration applications, combined with voice support for virtually all the leading telephony vendors, and video from leading industry partners. In Q3 2007, IBM announced that it is introducing Lotus Sametime Advanced, with planned persistent group chat, broadcast and instant-share capabilities, and geographic location services. "
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