IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime), with more than 9 million users, is the market leading instant messaging and Web conferencing solution for business. By providing presence awareness, instant messaging and Web conferencing Sametime helps speed communication, reduce travel expenses and produce results. Using Sametime people can discover if others are available to communicate and collaborate, correspond quickly through instant messaging and present information and improve customer satisfaction through Web conferencing. Today's business teams are comprised of colleagues, suppliers, partners and customers that are dispersed across campuses, across countries and around the world. Lotus Sametime provides the flexible, efficient and instantaneous workforce communication that these conditions demand. Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing is IBM's offering for real-time collaboration in the office or on the road. As a critical component of the Lotus Workplace, Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing helps organizations, their customers and their business partners be better coordinated, better informed and more agile.

Better coordinated: Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing delivers market-leading capabilities for bringing together geographically dispersed teams, resulting in increased productivity. These capabilities can also be integrated with applications including e-mail, team workplaces, portals and Web applications to maximize return on investment in existing application infrastructure.