SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Avistar Communications Corporation , has announced that Colgate-Palmolive Company, a multinational consumer products company, will deploy its desktop videoconferencing technology integrated with Lotus Sametime. Beginning with an initial installation this month, Colgate-Palmolive's aim is to benefit from the most innovative and effective combination of collaboration tools available for the corporate environment. Colgate-Palmolive recognizes the value that Avistar desktop videoconferencing adds to unified communications, by improving communication, fostering collaboration, and reducing travel expenditures, with their associated carbon emissions.
The addition of Avistar follows the recent upgrade at Colgate-Palmolive to Lotus Sametime 7.5.1. The initial deployment to management level users will support full video and audio collaboration between locations in New York, New Jersey and Asia. Colgate-Palmolive has opted for Avistar's hosted service, enabling infrastructure management and technical support to be off-loaded, yet offering full product performance and reporting. Following a successful rollout, the company expects to extend desktop videoconferencing more broadly later in 2008 and into 2009, with the potential to include thousands of users.
"Our objectives in adding desktop videoconferencing to our Sametime installation are to enhance collaboration across geographic boundaries in order to deliver new products more quickly, gain the value of face-to-face communications both internally and with suppliers, and to reduce travel expense and its impact on our environment," said Jack Haber, Vice President of Corporate eBusiness at Colgate-Palmolive.
"Avistar effectively integrates with Lotus Sametime to bring desktop videoconferencing to any number of uses across the enterprise," said Darren Innes, Avistar's general manager for worldwide direct and channel sales. "Our market-beating bandwidth control technology, which supports video communications and mitigates the need for additional network capacity, will enable Colgate-Palmolive to rapidly scale to meet business demand. Avistar provides a premier desktop videoconferencing solution that offers quick deployment through a hosted solution, delivering desktop videoconferencing software as an easy to manage service."
About Avistar Communications Corporation
Avistar is working to define the future of unified communications and collaboration by inventing and delivering integrated visual communications software that helps companies of all sizes improve business results. From the desktop, from the laptop and from conference rooms, Avistar delivers enterprise-quality and easy-to-use audio/video conferencing, multi-party videoconferencing, and integrated data sharing anywhere in the world. By integrating visual communications with enterprise application software, Avistar incorporates communications into the daily workflow and seamlessly connects communities of users within and across enterprises.
Founded in 1993, Avistar is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices in New York and London. With more than 17,000 seats sold across 40 countries, Avistar's global deployments of its unified visual communications desktop software are among the largest in the world. Avistar holds a portfolio of 81 patents for inventions in the primary areas of video and network technology and offers technology and IP licenses to companies in video conferencing, rich-media services, public networking and related industries. Current licensees include Sony Corporation, Polycom, Inc., Tandberg ASA, Radvision Ltd. and Emblaze-VCON.
For more information, visit http://www.avistar.com/.
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About Colgate-Palmolive
Colgate-Palmolive is a leading global consumer products company, tightly focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition. Colgate sells its products in over 200 countries and territories around the world under such internationally recognized brand names as Colgate, Palmolive, Mennen, Softsoap, Irish Spring, Protex, Sorriso, Kolynos, Elmex, Tom's of Maine, Ajax, Axion, Soupline, and Suavitel, as well as Hill's Science Diet and Hill's Prescription Diet.
For more information about Colgate's global business, visit the Company's web site at http://www.colgate.com/.
