Lotus Sametime software has been named the 2007 Product of the Year by Unified Communications magazine. The award honors companies that brought ground-breaking advancement to UC technologies within 2007.

IBM's strategy combines unified communications -- the convergence of information technology and telecommunications -- with collaboration to enable a wide range of innovations that can change the way people work together. IBM combines software, services, hardware and a host of third party solutions to offer businesses of all sizes advanced unified communication and collaboration (UC2) solutions.

"With IBM's approach to unified communications, based on who you are and what tools you use -- your communication and collaboration experience is unified, intuitive, relevant and consistent," said Michael Rhodin general manager of IBM Lotus Software and keynote speaker at VoiceCon. "By allowing businesses to easily mashup communication and collaboration services with everyday business applications, Lotus Sametime software has transformed into the gold standard for business unified communications."

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