IBM showcasing customer GEA
Uses IBM Sametime & Sametime Unified Telephony
IBM competitors will tell multiplatform customers to go to a common platform
Alistair Rennie makes a point by bringing a trash bin on stage and throwing your IP assets into it
Sametime works great with cloud and premise hybrid environments
Quock career ending conversation... lets throw out our infrastructure and endpoints to consolidate on a single vendor. #voicecon
Don't throw away what is working...use middleware to leverage you investments - make them future proof #AllistairRennie#VoiceCon
LotusLive - cloud-based collaboration
Lotus Foundations - an Linux-based appliance for collaboration & productivity for SMBs
#voicecon Causesproblems, Rennie says: you don't know what the next change is and could be locked in, so forced to make spot improvements
IBM plugging ShoreTel a lot...
Rennie: Criticizes competitors using UC to make customers standardize on their telephony, presence, collab, other products #voicecon #cavc
Lotus Foundations... UC, Productivity & Collaboration in a box for SMBs. #voicecon
Rennie: “The approach we take with Sametime is to say ‘The [IT] assets that you have are valuable.’” #voicecon #cavc
IBM Lotus Collab in a box service integrates with Broadsoft, ShoreTel, NEC, and Mitel #voicecon.
#voicecon IBM's Rennie: Integration is the better way. "The assets you have are valuable. They work. Why don't we just integrate them."
IBM tossing the PBX in the trash was an example of what not to do - yikes. too Graphic. #voicecon
AR demoing Lotus Foundations
Appliance has no HD, just a backup drive to backup the ROM
#voicecon IBM's Rennie: "The assets you have are valuable. They work. Why don't we just integrate them." ==> we agree, hence Avaya AURA
Kudos to IBM for having a keynote demo that worked this #voicecon (failed last time).
Lotus Foundations Appliance... pull the main hard drive and still make phone calls. Try that at home. #voicecon
clearly IBM is ready to face off Cisco in the collaboration war
Rennie: Very nice demo of Lotus Foundations appliance - a differentiator as IBM goes after an underserved UC-for-SME market #voicecon #cavc
Collaboration Agenda, leveraging IBM's expertise in industry business processes to apply collaboration to solve bus problems. #voicecon
#cavc #voicecon IBM's Rennie: "The assets you have are valuable. They work. Why don't we just integrate them." (via @Cberndtson) Middleware?
Any way to force a Mac to ONLY do 802.11a when a/b/g use the same SSID? Rumor at #VoiceCon is that 802.11a works better than b/g.
Collaboration Agenda - bringing business people and technologists together to understand investment priorities
IBM VoiceCon Demo... How to use collaboration to "torture" a sales rep. #voicecon
out of all the major vendors, IBM probably is the most "open" in terms of adopting open source... noticing the use of Firefox in the demo as well as its Foundations Appliance using Linux
#voicecon excellent IBM keynote has devolved a bit into too much demo. most folks around me are mobile device-ing.
Wow- looking at the Lotus Foundations page
bit.ly , it's a LOT like what we built at e-smith/Mitel back in 2000-2003 #VoiceCON
#voicecon still, IBM's push toward SMB with Lotus Foundations a big deal. more insight on IBM-ShoreTel for the channel @channelweb
At #VoiceCon, the IBM keynote is demo-ing all the live realtime collaboration goodness you can do within the Lotus world...
Interesting from IBM and an integration partner: digital signing in the cloud
Cloud based co-editing of documents in on-prem Sametime deployment. Cool. #voicecon
