New Polycom video solution for IBM Lotus Sametime helps businesses drive greater results

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that enables users to easily connect and collaborate. This enhanced
collaboration helps organizations improve productivity, accelerate
decision making and lower costs by reducing the need to travel.

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conferencing has long been a core element of any unified
communications and collaboration solution,” said Sandesh Bhat, VP
of Web and Collaboration Development, IBM. “As video moves beyond
the executive suite, Polycom's new integration with IBM Sametime
will make it easy for organizations to leverage these capabilities to
eliminate travel, protect the environment and drive significant cost
savings for their enterprises,” he said.

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to find, connect and collaborate with others,” said Joseph Burton,
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puts our powerful, productivity enhancing video collaboration tools
just one-click away within the Lotus applications that millions of
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drives greater ROI,” he added.

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Familiar Lotus Sametime User Experience with Click-to-Call
Telepresence

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allows users to 'Click-to-Call' and 'Click-to-Conference'
telepresence, video, voice and unified (combined voice and video)
conferencing from presence-enabled contacts within IBM Lotus
Sametime. In addition, Lotus Sametime Web conferencing users can
launch instant meetings with voice and video conferences, or include
a voice or video conference as part of scheduled web conference.

“ face="Times New Roman, serif">Integrating
voice and video communications within the IBM UC environment will
help customers drive a more collaborative culture by enhancing the
interaction between locations while also reducing travel costs,”
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“Customers will benefit by Polycom and IBM working together because
it will provide a more seamless experience for end users and IT
managers, along with better investment protection.”