I had the good privilege of attending a launch event at the Polycom Solution Center in Chicago today. Not surprisingly, they have an amazing video-conferencing facility. We had over 300 attendees conferenced together for today's event, from locations including: Santa Clara, Seattle, Dallas, New York, Atlanta and more.
If you've not had the good fortune to see one of these Polycom Solution Center's in person, it is worth the time. The video is amazing, and the audio is crystal clear. It truly did bring us all together regardless of our location.
I've blogged in the past about the benefits that the Polycom integration with Sametime offers to organizations. One benefit that I did not touch on in the past is the additional capabilities that Polycom brings to recording your Sametime meetings. Yes, Sametime has great capabilities now that allow you to record meetings locally in a standard video playback format. Unfortunately, this capability does not include recording video from your Sametime meetings.
By adding Polycom's integrated solution, you can leverage the recording capability of Polycom to record the full meeting experience centrally: data, audio and video. Video adds so much to a meeting, so keeping it as part of a recording is critical to insure the the full message and communication are saved for those viewing at a later date.
In a time when driving costs out of an operation is so critical to keeping our organizations competitive, you need to take a serious look at how you can leverage IBM Sametime and Polycom in your organization. Reach out to your business partner or IBM or Polycom to learn more.
Invitation to an Open Discussion from Wisconsinites
Thu, May 17th 2012 12:12a Phil Salm I will likely regret this, but I feel compelled to post my views on the Wisconsin Gubernatorial recall election. Why? I'd like to try to generate an open, respectful, and thoughtful discussion to a potentially wider range of Wisconsinites than doing so solely in a closed environment like Facebook allows. Why do I suspect I'll regret it? Well, I was very active in politics in high school--particularly in the anti-abortion movement. I stopped being heavily involved in politics for two primar [read] Keywords: blogger
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New Cisco Plug-in Demos
Wed, Apr 11th 2012 5:12p Phil Salm I've put together a couple of video demos of the Cisco Voicemail Plug-in and the Cisco Phone Control and Presence Plug-in. Hopefully they convey some of the great features that they provide. They are best viewed full screen. The plug-ins require that the user is licensed for Sametime Standard. But the plug-ins themselves are free. So if you have Cisco telephony and a Lotus Notes environment today, you really should be looking at deploying them for your end-users. The only additional hardw [read] Keywords: lotus
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Destructive Analytics
Wed, Mar 28th 2012 11:12p Phil Salm In this era of big data, we have become infatuated with the promise of how we can improve every aspect of our lives by better collecting data, analyzing it, and managing our lives to various data points. In business if you haven't heard someone in your organization parrot Peter Drucker's mantra that "you can't manage what you don't measure," then you must be running short on fresh MBA's. While I won't argue that there is some truth to this, this path of managing by measurement seems to [read] Keywords: blogger
The Video Mega-Conference with Polycom and IBM
Tue, Jan 24th 2012 9:10p Phil Salm I had the good privilege of attending a launch event at the Polycom Solution Center in Chicago today. Not surprisingly, they have an amazing video-conferencing facility. We had over 300 attendees conferenced together for today's event, from locations including: Santa Clara, Seattle, Dallas, New York, Atlanta and more. If you've not had the good fortune to see one of these Polycom Solution Center's in person, it is worth the time. The video is amazing, and the audio is crystal clear. It [read] Keywords: ibm
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Healthcare Solutions at Lotusphere?
Tue, Jan 10th 2012 10:11p Phil Salm As 2012 kicks off, I have some new excitement brewing for me in addition to the annual Lotusphere anticipation. This year I will have a new focus on IBM software solutions for healthcare. This is extremely exciting to me as I get to spend time in a field where information technology can make significant improvements to people's lives, not just bottom lines. And I'm very fortunate to enter this space at a time when leading-edge technology based on IBM's Watson is being transformed and appli [read] Keywords: ibm
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Cisco Releases Updates to Sametime Plug-ins
Fri, Dec 23rd 2011 10:11p Phil Salm "Ciscohas posted version 8.6updates to our free IBM Sametime plug-ins on Cisco.com. Theupdate includes our client-side Phone Control and Presence with IBM Sametimeplug-in and our client-side Unified Messaging with IBM Sametime plug-in.Updatesto the Phone Control andPresence plug-in include ...· Support for IBMSametime 8.5.2 and Lotus Notes 8.5.3 · Support for UC Manager8.6 & Unified Presence 8.6 · Support for 6945, 8941, 8945 IP Phones, as well as Cisco Cius · Cl [read] Keywords: collaboration
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