Rough notes form the keynote session.
- Review of history and progress to-date. 10 year anniversary for Sametime. Growing partner base.
- New: Ericsson integrating with Sametime - click on a name and start a call and then move call into a conference, onto a mobile phone or traditional phone, etc.
- New: NEC also integrating its telephony server with Sametime. See presence info, click to call, etc.
- OEM agreements: Cisco will sell Sametime. Nortel will see and integrate Sametime as well. (Note: Odd, IBM and Cisco announced something similar to this back at Spring VoiceCon in 2007, maybe this is the actually delivery of that news.)
- Demo:Bank of NY Mellon, Colgate-Palmolive (both existing Lotus customers)
- Up on stage: representatives of Mellon, Colgate and Melanie Turek from Frost & Sullivan
- Looking forward: Persistent Chat: can put alerts on chat room, community groups for broadcast messages, new call control settings, unified number to call that then is routed based on those call control settings and rules, can ring the right phone but recall the call and consolidate into one voice mail (so ring mobile but if no answer dump call into office v-mail system).
- 2H08 for Unified Telephony
- Future innovations: rich user experience for unified meetings, virtual world meeting...
- Closing remarks.
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