Stu Downes

David Farrell, Vice President, IBM Software Europe

IBM presented a mixture of slides, demonstration and screen capture:

• UC is not a cost saving, its a business value and need to exploit business processes
• IBM aim to unify the experience.  How do you find and expert, reach an expert, collaborate effectively
• Demonstration of screen sharing from within a chat
• Demonstration of CISCO Unity for voicemail in Sametime, Quickr plugin, communties plugin
• (?Re-?)Announced that Sametime unified telephony available Q4
• IBM will retain relationship with PBX suppliers and not try to replace their solutions [obvious difference in strategy to Microsoft]
• Then we had a screen captured demo of the telephony client, there were obvious network issues in the conference room and I felt a little sorry for IBM not being able to live demo.
• Key slides: