IBM

Polycom and IBM have teamed up to deliver Polycom Unified Collaboration Solutions for IBM Sametime®, IBM Lotus Notes® and IBM Connections. This joint solution gives businesses the social and real-time collaboration tools they need to connect networks of people and drive better business results. The Polycom RealPresence™ Platform natively integrates with and enhances IBM's social business applications to allow organizations to do more with less from anywhere, using any device. The solution's seamless integration maintains Sametime's flexibility and multiple platform support while delivering the groundbreaking benefits of Polycom voice and video solutions.

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Polycom and IBM are helping companies drive greater business results through unified communications and collaboration. The end-to-end solution:

• Combines the feature-rich IBM Lotus platform with Polycom's scalable visual communication infrastructure and personal and room telepresence solutions
• Provides a simple and seamless user experience that connects video—from the desktop to conference room throughout the enterprise

The Polycom and IBM solution puts industry-leading video communications seamlessly within the workflow of Sametime and Lotus Notes.

• Simple, intuitive click-to-call and click-to-conference dialing from presence-enabled contacts within Sametime and Lotus Notes
• Sametime Web conferencing users can launch instant meetings with voice and video participants on their mobile phone, PC, room telepresence system, or personal telepresence solution.

The IBM and Polycom solution is easy to deploy and manage and works with your existing Polycom and IBM investments for rapid ROI.

• Scalable, redundant, standards-based infrastructure platform for rich-media conferencing within IBM UC2 environments
• Polycom RMX® media conferencing platforms for multisite voice, video, or unified conferences. This standards-based solution allows users to leverage existing investments in visual communication systems for greater ROI and provides a broad ecosystem of nearly two-million standards-based telepresence and video conferencing systems in use today for extended collaboration.
• Polycom and Partner Professional Services provide timely and innovative business solutions to help you meet your strategic goals throughout the solution’s lifecycle. Fast, seamless deployments accelerate the return on your technology investment. Our professional services experts leverage proven methodologies and best practices to deploy your solution quickly with minimal risk and disruption to your daily operations.

IBM Services for Polycom Solutions.

• Video communications specialists with the expertise and experience to help your organization realize key business benefits and take advantage of new business opportunities
• Deep experience in design and deployment of IP-converged communications solutions
• Integration of IBM Software group’s best-of-breed Lotus brand enterprise communications and collaboration products with video communications solutions
• Experience in deploying very large-scale solutions
• Proven global delivery method and IBM Reference Architecture, including video communications delivery assets
• Analyst-recognized marketplace leadership in network consulting, and systems integration
• Specialty in integrating all the hardware and software together

For more information, contact your Polycom representative or e-mail us at ibm@polycom.com.