Lotus Sametime IBM

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Lotus Sametime _at_ IBM
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Sametime at work IBM

• Sametime instant messaging
• Recently reached peak concurrency of 106,000
  users
• Estimated 60-65 concurrency ratio - highest of
  any at IBM
• 3M instant messages per day
• 270,000 self-registered, voluntary users
• "Bots" get tens of thousands of hits per day
• Sametime Online Meetings
• August, 2002
• over 8,000 online meetings (gt10 with external
  parties)
• More than 43,000 participants
• Usage has more than doubled since December, 2001
  with no internal marketing
• IBM estimates travel savings of 4,000,000 per
  month
• IBMers have held more than 50,000 Web conferences
  since January

"Sametime went from an underground pilot to over
a quarter of a million users on word of mouth
alone. If we removed it now we'd have a
mutiny." John Patrick, Vice President of Internet
Technologies, IBM
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How do web conferences save IBM save 4,320,000
per month ?
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IBM Demo-Server

• http//stdemo3.dfw.ibm.com/welcome.nsf?open
• http//www.lotus.com/products/qplace.nsf/allpublic
  /23C864188D226D3985256A4500674C6F?opendocument
• http//www-10.lotus.com/ldd/demos.nsf