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Sametime offering features by client type

Abstract

The features available to users depend on the type of client they use and the Sametime® offering installed on their home servers.

The following tables compare features of IBM® Sametime Entry, Sametime Standard, and Sametime Advanced by client type.

Table 1. Presence feature comparison

Offering	Entry	Entry	Standard	Standard	Standard/Adv	Advanced	Advanced
Client	Notes Embedded	Connect	Connect	Web	Mobile	Connect	Web

Presence
Online Presence status	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Availability status icons	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Custom status message	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
View Other's geographic location	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Automated Geographic location awareness			x			x
Telephony Status			x	x		x	x
Set alerts to notify when users are available			x		x	x
Selective do not disturb/privacy lists			x	x		x	x
Set presence state and status message on start-up	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Set presence status from system tray, chat window or Connect, web and Mobile clients	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Auto status update based on PC inactivity	x	x	x			x
Auto status update based on calendar	x	x	x			x
Auto status update when entering or leaving a Sametime Meeting			x			x
Server-based geographic location services						x

Table 2. Instant Messaging feature comparison

Offering	Entry	Entry	Standard	Standard	Standard/Adv	Advanced	Advanced
Client	Notes Embedded	Connect	Connect	Web	Mobile	Connect	Web
Instant Messaging
Log in to multiple and external Sametime Communities			x			x
Anonymous or "Guest Access"				x			x
Business Card Display	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Type ahead Contact Search / Quick Find	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Primary Contacts View	x	x	x			x
Frequent Contacts View	x	x
Recent Contacts View	x	x
Initiate chats with users not in contact list	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
User created personal groups and nested groups	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Administrator created public contact list groups	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Contact List Sorting Options	x	x	x		x	x	x
Contact list scrubber to remove infrequently used contacts	x	x	x			x
Automatically send email if contact is offline	x	x	x			x
Secure One-on-one text chat	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Secure Multi-party text chat	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Voice and Video			x			x
Telephony Integration			x	x		x	x
Announcements (to selected users and groups)			x	x	x	x	x
Prevent accidentally starting large multi-party chats	x	x	x			x
Tabbed Chat Windows®	x	x	x		x	x
Display user information and photo in chat window	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Display chat partner status in chat window	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Rich text formatting	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Emoticons	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Emoticon Palettes	x	x	x			x
Screen Capture Tool			x			x
Instant Screen Share						x
File Transfer			x			x
Send hyperlinks and Notes® doclinks	x	x	x	x		x	x
Spell Check	x	x	x			x	x
Time and Date Stamps	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Chat History	x	x	x		x	x
Automatically populate recent chat history in chat window	x	x	x		x	x
Off the record mode / disable transcript save	x	x	x			x
Print Transcript	x	x	x			x
Send transcript as email	x	x	x			x
Zero-download browser chat client				x			x

Table 3. Meetings feature comparison

Offering	Entry	Entry	Standard	Standard	Standard/Adv	Advanced	Advanced
Client	Notes Embedded	Connect	Connect	Web	Mobile	Connect	Web
Meetings
Reservationless, persistent meeting rooms, available 24 x 7 for participant use			x	x		x	x
Instantly create a Sametime Meeting Room from Sametime Connect Client or browser based Meeting Room Center			x	x		x	x
Join or create a Sametime Instant Meeting from a 1-on-1 or group chat			x			x
Assign and enter meeting rooms from Notes, Outlook invitations			x	x		x	x
View your calendar from Sametime Connect with one click access to meeting rooms			x			x
One click access to Meeting rooms you own			x			x
One click access to your recently used Meeting Rooms			x	x		x	x
Find Meeting Rooms by owner or room name			x	x		x	x
Set passwords and hide meeting rooms			x	x		x	x
Anonymous or "Guest Access"				x			x
Set permissions to control whether users can share their screens or just observe			x	x		x	x
Control who else can manage room permissions			x	x		x	x
Invite users to meeting by drag and drop from contact list			x			x
Browser users can participate in meetings without any client download			x	x		x	x
Photo and list view of attendees			x	x		x	x
Sort participant list alphabetically or by users with raised hands			x			x
App / Screen sharing (Windows only, Mac and Linux® to come in follow on release)			x	x		x	x
App sharing remote control (peer-to-peer)			x			x
Each meeting room has its own, private file library			x	x		x	x
Load files into library by Drag and Drop			x			x
High quality conversion and presentation of PDF, ODF, and Microsoft® Office files			x	x		x	x
Local, background, high-fidelity file conversion			x			x
Control whether users can download documents from meeting library			x	x		x	x
Fit to screen view			x	x		x	x
Edge-to-edge full screen view			x			x	x
Presenter tools (highlighter, pointer)			x	x		x	x
View slide thumbnails during presentation			x			x
Create Polls Immediately or Store for Future Use			x	x		x	x
Immediately share poll results with participants			x	x		x	x
Screen Capture tool			x			x
Paste an item from your clipboard to the meeting library			x			x
Share URL's			x	x		x	x
Raise Hand			x	x		x
Initiate private chat			x	x		x	x
Group discussion			x	x		x	x
Emoticon Support			x			x
Breakout sessions and simultaneously participate in multiple meetings			x			x
Join Call function to enter audio portion of meeting			x			x
Client-side meeting recordings in standard file formats			x			x
Control whether users can record a meeting			x	x		x	x
Conferencing Integration/Voice and Video			x	x		x	x
User re-arrangeable interface			x			x
Capture Minutes, Questions, Action Items, Answered questions and Follow Up Items			x	x		x	x
Detailed Meeting reports			x	x		x	x
Historical Meeting Reports			x			x
Reset room by clearing out all room content			x	x		x	x
Administrators can use policies to control in-meeting discussion and file sharing			x	x		x	x
Use HTTP/HTTPS to connect all users, simplifying internal and external collaboration			x	x		x	x
Built in failover and clustering			x	x			x
Zero Download browser meetings client				x			x

Table 4. Voice and Video feature comparison

Offering	Entry	Entry	Standard	Standard	Standard/Adv	Advanced	Advanced
Client	Notes Embedded	Connect	Connect	Web	Mobile	Connect	Web
Voice and Video
A single audio / video interface delivers both built-in and partner media capabilities in voice and video chats or in Sametime online meetings			x			x
Sametime Video supports variable video window size, full screen mode and resolutions up to high definition			x			x
VoIP and video chats with multiple participants			x			x
New Administrative controls over the video experience (size, bitrate, quality, and so on).			x			x
New H.264 video and G.722.1 audio codecs provide a higher quality multimedia experience at lower bandwidths			x			x
Audio/video based on the industry standard Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), improving interoperability with third-party audio/video conferencing systems.			x			x
Telephony Integration			x			x

Table 5. Community Collaboration feature comparison

Offering	Entry	Entry	Standard	Standard	Standard/Adv	Advanced	Advanced
Client	Notes Embedded	Connect	Connect	Web	Mobile	Connect	Web
Community Collaboration
Exchange presence and chat with other Sametime communities, public IM services through Sametime Gateway			x	x		x	x
Exchange presence and chat with Microsoft OCS users through the connectors built into the Sametime Gateway			x	x		x	x
Broadcast Community Channels						x
Skill Tap						x
Instant Polls						x
Broadcast Chat						x
Broadcast Announcements						x
Create FAQs from Broadcast community content						x
Persistent Group Chat						x	x
Chats history stored on the server						x	x
Ability to store and share files with others						x	x
swarming tools - notifications triggered by keywords or number of participants - drive real time use						x
Create FAQs from Persistent Group Chat content						x	x

Table 6. Mobile Access feature comparison

Offering	Entry	Entry	Standard	Standard	Standard/Adv	Advanced	Advanced
Client	Notes Embedded	Connect	Connect	Web	Mobile	Connect	Web
Mobile Access
RIM Blackberry 8700, 7100, 8300 (Curve), 9000 (Bold and Storm)					x
Nokia Enterprise eSeries: E51, E60, E61, E62, D65, E70, E90					x
Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 SE, Windows Mobile 5 and 6 (Standard and Professional)					x
Sony Ericsson P1i					x
Apple iPhone and iPod Touch (browser)					x

Table 7. Communications Enabled Business Processes feature comparison

Offering	Entry	Entry	Standard	Standard	Standard/Adv	Advanced	Advanced
Client	Notes Embedded	Connect	Connect	Web	Mobile	Connect	Web
Communications Enabled Business Processes
SDKs and Toolkits			x	x		x	x
Telephony Conferencing Service Provider Interface			x	x		x	x
Customizable Branding Area			x	x		x	x
Extensible plug-in model and resource area			x	x		x	x
Extensible toolbars, icons and right click menus			x	x		x	x
Web client customization via style sheets				x			x
Web 2.0 APIs				x			x
WebSphere® Portal Integration				x			x
Lotus® Connections and Quickr™ Integration			x	x		x	x
Lotus Notes® Integration			x	x		x	x
Microsoft SharePoint Integration			x			x
Microsoft Outlook and Office Toolbar Extensions	x	x	x			x
contact presence, location and status messages	x	x	x			x
generate dynamic contact list from email recipient list	x	x	x			x
open Sametime Quick Find Search	x	x	x			x
click to text chat	x	x	x			x
click to talk (VoIP)			x			x
click to talk (3rd party telephony)			x			x
instant meetings			x			x
instant screen share						x

Table 8. Administration and Security feature comparison

Offering	Entry	Entry	Standard	Standard	Standard/Adv	Advanced	Advanced
Client	Notes Embedded	Connect	Connect	Web	Mobile	Connect	Web
Administration and Security
Sametime System Console			x	x		x	x
Integrated Installation Manager			x	x		x	x
Central policy management of features and user settings			x	x		x	x
Auto-provision client updates	x	x	x	x		x	x
Serviceability Management	x	x	x	x		x	x
Security and Encryption	x	x	x	x		x	x
Chat monitoring and archiving integration	x	x	x	x		x	x

Parent topic: Sametime clients

Related concepts
Planning for a mixed-license environment of Sametime Entry, Sametime Standard, and Sametime Advanced servers

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Administering Sametime Standard 8.5.2 documentation, Product documentation, Product Documentation,

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August 16, 2011

3:54:52 PM

by Kerry Thompson IBMer

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Submitted by Kerry Thompson on Aug 16, 2011 3:53:24 PM

Re: Sametime offering features by client type

Updated for 8.5.2, Web client supports Presenter tools, Create Polls, Immediately share poll, and Conferencing with voice/video

Submitted by Kerry Thompson on Aug 16, 2011 3:51:06 PM

Re: Sametime offering features by client type

Updated for 8.5.2, Web client supports Presenter tools, Create Polls, Immediately share poll, and Conferencing with voice/video

Submitted by Klaus Bild on Jun 29, 2011 2:49:36 AM

Re: Sametime offering features by client type: st852

An updated list for Sametime 8.5.2 would be very welcome!

Submitted by Klaus Bild on Jun 29, 2011 2:49:28 AM

Re: Sametime offering features by client type: st852

An updated list for Sametime 8.5.2 would be very welcome!

Submitted by Keith Brooks on Jun 2, 2011 11:11:48 AM

This is lifted form 851 with no changes?

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