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IBM's UC² Strategy = Unified Communications + Collaboration

Find. Reach. Collaborate

Why IBM for unified communications and collaboration

Beyond simply combining communications channels, the IBM Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC˛™) vision is to add the power of collaboration to the equation.


Unified Communications and Collaboration

The IBM UC˛ vision is to foster innovation and business agility by making it easer for people to find, reach and collaborate with one another through a unified communications experience — right from their familiar devices, applications, and processes. So people are only one or two clicks away from collaboration.

Integrating communications and collaboration in a rich, multimedia experience — one that can include unified telephony, voice, video, instant messaging, Web conferencing, e-mail, voice mail, and business processes and applications — enables a whole new way for people, teams and communities to find experts and make faster, better decisions

The IBM UC˛ strategy is to deliver — in partnership with the leading telephony, audio, and video vendors — complete software, services and hardware solutions for unified communications and collaboration. These solutions, which include IBM Lotus® Sametime® software and services from IBM Global Technology Services, offer a simple, unified user experience that seamlessly integrates with multivendor environments. And the open ecosystem and open standards based software allow you to leverage and extend your IT and telephony investments to help make users more productive, speed business processes and reduce overall costs.

Software

IBM Lotus Sametime
Lotus Sametime software for enterprise IM, presence, Web / video conferencing, VoIP

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Services

Converged communications
IBM Global Technology Services provides assessment, design and implementation services to support UC solutions

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Solutions

Mid-market UC solutions
A complete unified communications solution built on IBM® Power™ Systems

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Watch this

Webcast: Unified communications

Video: Don't try this at work

Video: IBM keynote at VoiceCon Orlando 2008

Video: What is UC and collaboration?


Listen to this

Podcast: Empowering people


Read this

Wainhouse: call control strategies (695KB)

News: IBM predicts five trends that will drive UC

Frost & Sullivan: 2007 Winner, North American UC Global Excellence Award

News and awards

White paper: Beyond converged networks (213KB)

White paper: Extending the value of UC with Lotus Sametime (378KB)

UC solutions from IBM Business Partners

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