Siemens and IBM

Background

Enterprises are highly distributed with remote workers making up a high percentage of their workforce, and virtual companies providing resources for outsourced non-core functions. Companies are constantly striving to streamline communications and enable business processes to reduce overall bottlenecks and delays and increase productivity, time to market and revenue.

Teaming Up

The collaborative relationship between Siemens and IBM gives customers the ability to unify all elements of communications and collaboration to optimize business results regardless of their VoIP infrastructure and without having to make intrusive across-the-board infrastructure changes. Once OpenScape has been integrated into IBM Lotus Sametime™, knowledge workers using the popular IBM platform will be able to utilize advanced collaboration features, such as click-to-contact, click-to-conference, and full-spectrum presence functionality.

Opening new doors

In August 2007, Siemens and IBM signed an OEM agreement that allows IBM to license elements of Siemens’ OpenScape open unified communications capabilities to enhance the IBM Lotus “Unified Telephony” offering currently planned by IBM as part of the expanded Lotus Sametime product family. The deal combines the two companies’ strengths in providing converged voice, data and video communications as well as collaboration solutions for enterprises of all sizes around the world.

The Siemens Edge for IBM

When OpenScape is integrated with IBM SOA-based integration middleware, Lotus Sametime conferencing and instant messaging software, users will experience a more consistent, collaborative, and easy-to-use Unified Communications environment. Organizations will benefit from the most open, complete Unified Communications solution, delivering quantifiable business value through increased productivity and responsiveness of their personnel, regardless of VoIP infrastructure. By extending the Lotus Sametime user experience, user adoption hurdles and the learning curve for the new application features are greatly reduced, enabling organizations to quickly realize the proven gains from communications-enabled business processes. And, because it is open and standards-based, customers with a multi-vendor PBX or application environment can realize an immediate improvement.

OpenScape was named a semi-finalist for the Best in Showcase award at Lotusphere 2007. Bruce Morse, Vice President Unified Communications, IBM Lotus commented: "Siemens OpenScape extends Lotus Sametime with advanced Unified Communications capabilities, delivering unique, complementary technology that strengthens our open communications position and helps us realize our vision of a world of seamless communications."

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