IBM Connect Showcase 2014

As all years, you can meet all IBM Business Partners in the IBM Connect Showcase. Polycom has its own booth to demonstrate its cool and seamless integration with IBM Solutions like IBM Sametime (IBM Connections Chat & Meetings), IBM Kenexa BrassRings or IBM Care Manager (Healthcare solution).

In the long list of IBM Business Partner, I had the opportunity to meet a new cool integration with IBM Connections from a French Company named Reverso Softissimo : Reverso Translate for IBM Connections.
This solution allows you to easily collaborate with your colleagues all over the world with Reverso Machine Translation fully contextually integrated into IBM Connections -> Translate any text, from any page, on demand, instantly...

It eliminates the language barriers when you have to socialize !!! 
Great, isn't it..

Watch this video if you want to see it in action...

Making "Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite" Social with IBM Connections

Room videoconferencing has been around for years, of course, but until now it hasn't been applied on a wide scale to social networking. Imagine an easy integration between Social Networking platform leader like IBM and Polycom Video Conferencing Solutions… To drive user adoption, video needs to be contextually integrated within Business Process or applications.

Last year, IBM has introduced a tech preview: IBM Sametime Video Chat Widget. It provides an easy way to associate a Sametime audio/video session with an IBM Connections Community page. I have extended that integration via Polycom technology to provide multipoint video conferencing in continuous presence mode (here). But, some clients haven’t deployed IBM Sametime or their Sametime server is not integrated with their IBM Connections platform.

Polycom has just delivered a new solution in its portfolio: Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite. With a browser and web camera on a PC, smartphone, or a tablet, Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite extends web video collaboration to anyone.

This solution provides, via a set of REST APIs, all features to design the same kind of integration as the Sametime Video Chat Widget.

I have developed a prototype to illustrate this use case.  Let’s suppose that there is a team of newly hired employees who join a new-hire community to share their common knowledge and successes to become productive, faster.  Or the community could be a group of developers who are Java experts who are sharing design tips. Or a virtual help desk community.  

In this prototype, any member of a community can attend a video collaboration session.  If no “Video Collaboration meeting” is in progress, one community member can start it, then all member will be able to see that and can join the meeting in progress via a single click. Audio and video can be automatically started for each person as soon as they enter the room.

Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite extends secure enterprise-grade Polycom video collaboration to anyone with a browser and web camera. Embedding it in business process through a seamless integration will allows you to drive Social & video adoption.