RIM and IBM unveil enterprise-wide wireless voice and IM

Manufacturing News, Source : The Manufacturer US
Published : 23 Jan 2007 15:50

Research in Motion or RIM, makers of BlackBerry devices, has argued hard for BlackBerry as an enterprise tool, and their announcement at Lotusphere 2007 in Orlando shows that they're committed.

RIM demonstrated new levels of integration between its BlackBerry Enterprise Solution and IBM Lotus Sametime and IBM Lotus Domino, which RIM calls the "first seamless, enterprise-grade implementation of wireless voice and instant messaging convergence."

As part of a series of planned initiatives focused on extending the voice, presence and location-based services of Lotus Sametime to BlackBerry users, IBM and RIM will demonstrate what the companies claim is seamless integration of Lotus Sametime instant messaging and presence with enterprise voice services in a wireless setting.

"As the leader in enterprise collaboration solutions, IBM is committed to providing our customers intuitive, anytime, anywhere access to their most important communication and collaboration tools," said Michael Rhodin, General Manager, IBM Lotus. "Working together with RIM, we are making it easy for customers to find, reach and collaborate across their desktop, mobile and telephony environments."

"The ability to securely extend voice, email, intranet and real-time collaboration applications to mobile workers is becoming a competitive imperative and BlackBerry Enterprise Server is proving to be a unique and powerful advantage for our enterprise customers,” said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO, Research In Motion. “In this next phase of our continuing collaboration with IBM, we are focusing on enabling seamless access to the collaborative elements of the robust Lotus Sametime and Lotus Domino environments with new levels of convergence, efficiency and usability.”

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