Avaya Meeting Exchange for IBM Lotus Sametime is an on-network collaboration solution that combines proven audio conferencing capabilities from Avaya with market-leading enterprise collaboration products from IBM: giving users an enhanced ability to launch and manage virtual conferences.

What's New With This Release
Meeting Exchange is integrated with IBM Lotus Sametime 7.0 in the first release of this integrated solution. Now conference organizers can dial out from the bridge to bring people into the conference, mute or disconnect participants, and identify speakers on a conference call. Other new capabilities include the Sametime Connect Client functionality and the ability to utilize audio and web recording and playback. Integration with Sametime 7.5 will be available by the end of calendar 2006.

Business Benefits

• Significantly decreases conferencing related expenses with on-network deployment.
• Helps businesses increase productivity by providing easy access to integrated, real-time collaboration tools, without the need to juggle multiple tools or devices.
• Simplifies a user's ability to locate and join key participants with fast and easy click-to-call functionality, for real-time decision making.
• Eliminates the complexity and cost associated with installing, running, and managing separate platforms.