In partnership with LotusLive’s offer to LoLA attendees, Tungle is offering one year of Tungle.me for LotusLive, free for organizations of up to 1,000 users.

Gain back lost productivity by eliminating the back-and-forth of finding times to meet Automatically prevents double bookings and adjusts for time zones Easily meet with your team through individual and group scheduling pages Instantly bring new hires into the scheduling loop Easily schedule with people outside the organization, regardless of time zone or calendar platform

More info: www.tungle.me/Home/lotuslivelola.

Why you should use it?

Have you ever come across a time where you forgot to set your out of office notification, before going on a business trip or vacation? If so, you are not alone.

If you are using Lotus Traveler, you should find that there is a very important feature missing, i.e. ability to set your Out of Office while you are on the road.

This application is designed to fill in this gap.

More info: www.extracomm.com/TravelerOOO.

IBM has launched a new feature for IBM Sametime with the release of version 8.5.2: IBM Sametime Unified Telephony Lite Client. This will extend the Samtime client with a SIP softphone, enabling a user to start and receive phone conversations from his Sametime client. This is not limited to other users running the client, but can be used to call other VOIP clients, telephone lines and cell phones. All thanks to the integration with existing SIP telephone exchanges. Video is also supported when the user has a webcam. Another great asset is the easy setup of conference calls with multiple parties.

This will make communication easier for your users, since they will be reachable via Sametime on different channels. Because of the VOIP integration, it can even reduce your telephony costs.

If you already own an existing Sametime Standard infrastructure and a supported SIP PBX, the required changes for implementing the IBM Sametime Unified Telephony Lite Client are limited. This makes sure the client can be up and running in a fair amount of time.

If you like to read more info on this product, please visit the IBM website.

IBM® Sametime® is an award-winning platform for unified communications and collaboration. A critical component of your social business strategy, unified communications provides an immediate and cost effective way to take action across your extended organization. IBM Sametime 8.5.2 is designed to help make your business more social by delivering audio and video conferencing in browser-based meetings, extending unified communications to new mobile devices, and enhancing Sametime Advanced.

IBM Sametime Standard 8.5.2 adds:

• Native and third-party audio and video in browser-based online meetings
• Standards-based Network Address Translation (NAT) support and firewall traversal for audio and video
• Bandwidth management tools to protect the network by managing audio and video usage
• Support for dual Telephone Conferencing Service Provider Interface (TCSPI) adaptors, enabling simultaneous integration with multiple audio and video conferencing systems
• A new Instant Messaging client and a Sametime Unified Telephony (SUT) dialer for Google Android devices
• A new Sametime Meeting client for Research In Motion (RIM) Blackberry devices
• Enhanced meeting room controls, including the ability to manage access to rooms, eject users, and for administrators to delete rooms
• The ability to search chat histories by person and view received files and links
• Widget support within the Sametime Connect Client
• The ability to click on any name in chat text to instantly collaborate
• Integration with Office 2010 Ribbon model
• New server platforms:
  • Microsoft® Windows® 2008 R2 Server
  • Novell SLES 11 Server

In addition to the feature enhancements in Sametime Standard, Sametime Advanced 8.5.2 also includes:

• Improved scalability to support larger user populations
• APIs for third-party compliance tools
• Lightweight Directory (LDAP) groups support for improved access control
• Integration with the Sametime System Console for simplified installation and policy management
• A new Sametime Advanced Server that utilizes the same versions of IBM WebSphere® Application Server and DB2® as Sametime Standard
• An Extranet Processor Value Unit licensing option to make working with customers and partners easier

Planned availability date:

• June 10, 2011: Electronic availability
• July 22, 2011: Media availability

Source: IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Announcement Letter

Management cannot ignore the fact that social media is used by their employees. This new way of communication is a fact and users are finding a way to use them anyway. You be better prepared and offer them an inhouse platform

Source: IT executive: Werknemers slepen zelf social media binnen.

IBM has announced that it will no longer support Lotus Notes and Domino version 7.0.x as of April 30, 2011.

This means that you can no longer contact IBM for support. This does NOT mean that Groupwave does not support you anymore. As with all of our customers, we have a support service which makes it easy and fast to register a problem.

If you have any questions regarding this topic or need support with your upgrade, do not hesitate to contact us!

All of our employees finished the certification exams with great success . To provide you with the best service Groupwave expects from their employees to be experts in their field. That is why we ask all of them to have the latest certifications. We make sure everybody follows training courses, goes to events and follows webcasts. We share all the latest knowledge during our meetings, so everybody is up to date!

Collaboration University has been enabling technical professionals and business managers with the tools and skills they need to get the most from their investment in Lotus Software. With a focus on Lotus Quickr and Sametime, a few related integration and strategy sessions, and expertise concentrated in one place, we get the most in-depth training possible, with access to well-known industry experts.

In 2010, we are returning to London to keep the lead in technologies like Quickr, Connections and Sametime.

www.collaborationuniversity.com

This is a unique opportunity to pose questions or mention problems you might have and send them with our colleagues to London! Thanks to direct contact with the product developers, we might give you a quick and positive response.

What answers would you like to hear at the collaboration university?

IBM has announced that it will no longer support Lotus Notes and Domino version 6.5 as of April 30, 2010.

This means that you can no longer contact IBM for support. This does NOT mean that Groupwave does not support you anymore. As with all of our customers, we have a support service which makes it easy and fast to register a problem.

If you have any questions regarding this topic or need support with your upgrade, do not hesitate to contact us!

Since 19/02/2009 we moved. We've left our familiar site in Schelle and went to seek new grounds. Our office is located now at Cronos. Business Park King Square Veldkant 33A, 2550 Kontich.