So, Sametime Standard (and Sametime Advanced, recently mentioned on .uk) offer a lot more value than the capabilities provided by the Sametime Entry entitlement that users get with Lotus Notes. To access from a browser, the meeting host can issue a URL or the delegate can navigate through the new Sametime 8.5 meeting centre. The meeting room experience has been improved, the load time is mega-fast, and offers both rich client and browser access вЂ“ the rich meeting client can be launched from both Lotus Notes and the Sametime client. Another great feature is the calendar integration which warns you of an upcoming meeting and provides an option for one-click access (see below). Sametime 8.5 introduces new modes for meetings вЂ“ it allows a user to create a new room on-the-fly for an instantaneous meeting, provides permanently open rooms, and also rooms which can be aligned to projects and business activities. And for ad-hoc collaboration, click-to-conference is a much richer and easier thing to do than loading up separate applications forВ instant messaging, video conferencing,В and web conferencing. So why does the Forrester blog like Sametime 8.5?Д«ecause itвЂ™s got the core elements of click-to-conference - not just instant messaging and presence - baked into it. The new release has a host of new capabilities вЂ“ iPhone support, improved video, new web APIs, an updated rich client and a new zero-download web client вЂ“ but the big improvements are in the web conferencing capabilities.

вЂThe View from Forrester ResearchвЂ™ hosted on ZDNet has some very positive things to say about the forthcoming 8.5 release of Lotus Sametime.

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