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Why does a Sametime meeting room with integrated telephony make a lot of sense.

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As many people know, we at Epilio do a lot of work building integration for companies between their Sametime Web Conferencing system and their telephone systems, we even do this for vendors, so you might very well be using some of the integration we built but just don't know it.  If you've ever wondered about the value of using a web conferencing system that is tightly integrated with a Telephone conferencing system watch this funny short video that Bilal Jaffrey posted a link to.




I'm sure anyone that has attended a telephone conference can associate with this call, but here's the thing it doesn't have to be that way.  If you use a system like Sametime integrated with a telephone conference bridge, these issues vanish, they evaporate, they disappear, they're gone!.  You can see who's entered the call, you can see who's typing loudly, you can see who dropped off,  you can see who's dog is barking, you can mute them, you can hang them up, you can invite in other people, you can lock the call, plus more, all from a simple easy to use interface, you get the idea. You want more productive telephone conferences, then take a look at a web conference with tightly integrated telephony.  Oh and as I'm forever telling people Sametime Unified Telephony(SUT) does not do this, SUT is for click to call, call routing etc. it has zip nada, zero web conferencing integration with Sametime web conferences.

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Gravatar Image1 - Love the video!

"call control" assumes your conference service provider provides those features *and* your company permits them. A good case is Premiere Conferencing. They *had* a great desktop app for this but either discontinued of or discontinued it for the company I work for.

Integrated into my calendaring / meeting invite would be wonderful.

Gravatar Image2 - Premiere offer great integration for lots of web conferencing systems including Sametime, so I don't think it's Premiere.

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