Unified Workflows With the OLIVE - Sametime Integration Plug-In

Known as Unified Communications, the trend to simplify and integrate all forms of communications in business has become mainstream. IBM has publicly committed to investing $1 billion in its unified communications strategy over the next three years, integrating communications and collaboration technologies including unified telephony, voice, video, instant messaging, This strategy fuses the best features of enterprise social networking with the immersive nature of 3D meeting environments to enable new unified workflows for community based work groups and spaces. This paper examines the integration between OLIVE and IBM Lotus Sametime, and how the integrated products enhance the IBM UC² vision to make it easier for people to find, reach and collaborate with one another - allowing people to be only one or two clicks away from collaboration.