HCL Sametime
computer program
HCL Sametime Premium (formerly IBM Sametime and IBM Lotus Sametime) is a client–server application and middleware platform that provides real-time, unified communications and collaboration for enterprises. Those capabilities include presence information, enterprise instant messaging, web conferencing, community collaboration, and telephony capabilities and integration. Currently it is developed and sold by HCL Software, a division of Indian company HCL Technologies, until 2019 by the Lotus Software division of IBM.
Because HCL Sametime is middleware, it supports enterprise software and business process integration (Communication Enabled Business Process), either through an HCL Sametime plugin or by surfacing HCL Sametime capabilities through third-party applications. HCL Sametime integrates with a wide variety of software, including Lotus collaboration products, Microsoft Office productivity software, and portal and Web applications.
Features
HCL Sametime Premium Features:
HCL Sametime Premium (v12.0.3)
Chat Read Receipts
Mobile Chat Search
Meeting Recording Transcripts
Mobile Auto Status & Persistent Notifications
Improved Guest User Experience
Chat and Meetings Accessibility
Enchanted and React Design Updates
HCL Sametime Premium (v12.0.2 FP2)
Windows Non-containerized support
HCL Sametime Premium (v12.0.2 FP1)
Sametime Connect and Notes Embedded Web | PWA support
Web Improved Contact List
Additional start group chat option
Mobile Enhancements and Stability Improvements
Notification when a meeting starts
Sametime Connect and Notes Embedded authenticated photos
Ability to set chat history displayed
Browser Tab notification
HCL Sametime Premium (v12.0.2)
New Sametime Admin Client
Improved LTPA and LDAP integration
Managed Chart Deployments
Mongo Atlas Support
K3s support
Install prompt for PWA client
Open-source Product Documentation
Meeting Privacy Settings
Meeting Complex Passwords
Combined Chat and Meetings client
Meeting attendees displayed on pre-join
In-meeting Awareness
Chat Reactions
Chat Deletion
HCL Sametime Premium (v12.0.1 FP1)
Red Hat OpenShift support
Controlling meeting report generation
Audio and Video setting improvements
HCL Sametime Premium (v12.0.1)
HCL Sametime chat only support on Kubernetes
MongoDB v6 support
Podman support
Safari browser support
Meeting duration timer
Network indicator added to meetings
Improved Firefox browser experience
Keyboard shortcuts
Chat enhancements
Chat interface improvements
Web Chat contact list nickname support
Sametime Client RTL (Bi-Di) language support
Chat API (technical preview) updates
Grafana dashboards for monitoring and statistics
Push Proxy support
Sametime Database Utility
Outlook Calendar HCL Meetings Add-on updates
HCL Sametime Premium (v12.0)
Company branding
Virtual backgrounds
Meeting reports and recordings
Click to Call
File transfer
Pinned and muted chats
Microphone Background noise detection
Meeting modes
Member management
Waiting room
Mobile client policy improvements
Video layout enhancements
HCL Sametime Premium (v11.6 IF2)
Apache Tomcat upgraded
Open JDK updated
APNS certificate renewed
HCL Sametime Premium (v11.6)
New modern look
HCL Verse and iNotes enabled for Persistent Chat
Click to meet feature
New Web Chat client modern look and features
New Mobile clients on iOS and Android
Persistent chat and multi-device support
New features for administrators
64-bit Community Server
Simplified Proxy Server install
Stand-alone Sametime Community Mux install
Support for APNS HTTP/2
HCL Sametime Premium (v11.5)
Instant meetings & persistent chat
Personal meeting rooms
Multiple screen-share per meeting
Moderator Controls
Video meeting options
Desktop App, Web & Mobile
Meeting Recording
Calendar integrations
Livestreaming capability
Secure data
Flexible deployment (Cloud, on-premises or hybrid)
Admin policies at the user, group and server level
Inbound/outbound telephony support
Features - Previous Versions through 11.0:
HCL Sametime is a client–server enterprise application that includes the HCL Sametime Connect client for end-users and the HCL Sametime Server for control and administration. HCL Sametime (pre v11.5) comes in four levels of functionality:
HCL Sametime Limited Use (Old name HCL Sametime Entry) provides basic presence and instant messaging.
HCL Sametime Standard provides additional functionality to HCL Sametime Entry, including:
rich presence including location awareness
rich-media chat, including point-to-point Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and video chat, timestamps, emoticons, and chat histories
group and multi-way chat
web conferencing
contact business cards
interoperability with public IM networks via the HCL Sametime Gateway, including AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk and XMPP-based services.
open APIs that allow integrations between HCL's own and other applications
Sametime Audio/Video Services supports audio (e.g. G.722.1) and video codecs (e.g.
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