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On behalf of the entire Sametime organization, l am pleased to announce that the latest version of this iconic product – Sametime 9 – will be available for customers on September 20^th.

I invite you to attend the formal unveiling at the “Reinvent The Way Work Works”, a signature IBM virtual event, on Wednesday, September 18^th, 10am-Noon (EDT). (Register here.) This event will introduce a number of new innovations around IBM's industry leading Social Platform and feature speakers such as:

• Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business
• Alistair Rennie, General Manager, Social Business at IBM
• Jeff Schick, Vice President, Social Business at IBM
• Customers like Australian Bureau of Statistics, Langhoff Promotion A/S and SafeGuard World International

Following the keynote, there will be a deep dive on what's new in Sametime 9 as well as a virtual showcase with over a dozen partners.

While we'll take you through all the exciting new capabilities on the 18^th (hint: an entirely new user experience and out-of-the-box continuous presence video conferencing), I want to highlight the significant changes we've made to Sametime's packaging. We're retiring the old portfolio in favor of a more streamlined set of offerings:

Sametime Communicate is all about individual communications needs. It starts by unifying all of Sametime's instant messaging capabilities into one offering – including Offline Messaging, Skill Tap, Instant Polls, Persistent Group Chat and more. We build on that with 1:1 voice and video capabilities, including Bandwidth Management Tools for Sametime calls. We even added the ability to link Sametime to your telephony or telepresence system over a SIP trunk. Yes, your Sametime Connect client can be your phone or video endpoint without any additional licensing. We include mobile, browser and rich clients along with all the API's and 3^rd party plugins to integrate your existing services into Sametime or put Sametime services where your users work every day.

Sametime Conference is for multi-party collaboration. This offering blends our award winning zero-download, browser-based meeting capabilities with our new video MCU for continuous presence, high definition video. Use Sametime meetings for multi-party audio calls, dial out to your favorite audio conferencing bridge or use partner plugins or adapters to integrate Sametime Meetings with your favorite video conferencing system.

Sametime Complete bundles both offerings together and delivers additional value all its own. With Complete, we extend continuous presence video to video calls outside of meetings. We also let you share your screen or an application right from a chat window. In addition, use the Sametime Connect client to invite colleagues to your meetings by just dragging their name from a contact list and dropping it on the meeting room or clicking the meeting icon at the top of a chat window.

One other important change worth calling out today is that Sametime customers will also be able to collaborate with customers and partners without having to acquire the (dreaded) Extranet license. That's right, any licensed user of Sametime inside your organization will be able to work with external parties. So, go ahead and chat enable that customer service site or use Sametime Meetings for your customer presentation.

Finally, we retain Sametime Unified Telephony for those large organizations that want to provide advanced unified communications capabilities to their users while isolating the those user from future changes in backend telephony infrastructure. Sametime Unified Telephony supports homogenous or heterogenous telephony environments that a company may face today or in the future.

We'll have a lot more to say on the new Sametime packing in just a few days.... including transition plans and more detail on what's in each package. We'll also offer a series of posts outlining the cutting edge capabilities you'll find in this latest release. Please keep an eye on this blog, post questions here or directly reach out to anyone on the Product Management team.

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On behalf of the entire Sametime organization, l am pleased to announce that the latest version of this iconic product – Sametime 9 – will be available for customers on September 20^th.

I invite you to attend the formal unveiling at the “Reinvent The Way Work Works”, a signature IBM virtual event, on Wednesday, September 18^th, 10am-Noon (EDT). (Register here.) This event will introduce a number of new innovations around IBM's industry leading Social Platform and feature speakers such as:

• Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business
• Alistair Rennie, General Manager, Social Business at IBM
• Jeff Schick, Vice President, Social Business at IBM
• Customers like Australian Bureau of Statistics, Langhoff Promotion A/S and SafeGuard World International

Following the keynote, there will be a deep dive on what's new in Sametime 9 as well as a virtual showcase with over a dozen partners.

While we'll take you through all the exciting new capabilities on the 18^th (hint: an entirely new user experience and out-of-the-box continuous presence video conferencing), I want to highlight the significant changes we've made to Sametime's packaging. We're retiring the old portfolio in favor of a more streamlined set of offerings:

Sametime Communicate is all about individual communications needs. It starts by unifying all of Sametime's instant messaging capabilities into one offering – including Offline Messaging, Skill Tap, Instant Polls, Persistent Group Chat and more. We build on that with 1:1 voice and video capabilities, including Bandwidth Management Tools for Sametime calls. We even added the ability to link Sametime to your telephony or telepresence system over a SIP trunk. Yes, your Sametime Connect client can be your phone or video endpoint without any additional licensing. We include mobile, browser and rich clients along with all the API's and 3^rd party plugins to integrate your existing services into Sametime or put Sametime services where your users work every day.

Sametime Conference is for multi-party collaboration. This offering blends our award winning zero-download, browser-based meeting capabilities with our new video MCU for continuous presence, high definition video. Use Sametime meetings for multi-party audio calls, dial out to your favorite audio conferencing bridge or use partner plugins or adapters to integrate Sametime Meetings with your favorite video conferencing system.

Sametime Complete bundles both offerings together and delivers additional value all its own. With Complete, we extend continuous presence video to video calls outside of meetings. We also let you share your screen or an application right from a chat window. In addition, use the Sametime Connect client to invite colleagues to your meetings by just dragging their name from a contact list and dropping it on the meeting room or clicking the meeting icon at the top of a chat window.

One other important change worth calling out today is that Sametime customers will also be able to collaborate with customers and partners without having to acquire the (dreaded) Extranet license. That's right, any licensed user of Sametime inside your organization will be able to work with external parties. So, go ahead and chat enable that customer service site or use Sametime Meetings for your customer presentation.

Finally, we retain Sametime Unified Telephony for those large organizations that want to provide advanced unified communications capabilities to their users while isolating the those user from future changes in backend telephony infrastructure. Sametime Unified Telephony supports homogenous or heterogenous telephony environments that a company may face today or in the future.

We'll have a lot more to say on the new Sametime packing in just a few days.... including transition plans and more detail on what's in each package. We'll also offer a series of posts outlining the cutting edge capabilities you'll find in this latest release. Please keep an eye on this blog, post questions here or directly reach out to anyone on the Product Management team.

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