Durham, NH, and Maynard, MA – Monday, 31 March, 2008 - Instant Technologies, specialists in developing innovative, enterprise-class compliance and productivity solutions for IBM Lotus Sametime and Microsoft Office Communications Server, and Covergence, the leading provider of next-generation Session Border Control solutions, today announced a joint interoperability solution.The joint solution solves a difficult problem for enterprises that have both IBM Lotus Sametime and Microsoft OCS servers in their environments: Users on one system cannot communicate with users on the other system.
Covergence and Instant Technologies each deliver one-half of the solution: Covergence Session Manager enables Sametime and OCS servers to talk to each other, while Instant Technologies’ Instant BuddyList Migrator automatically preserves buddy lists and group memberships across both environments.
“We see a lot of companies with both Sametime and OCS servers,” says Peyton McManus, President of Instant Technologies. “Some times it’s a permanent co-existence, other times it’s temporary during a migration from one platform to the other. But in either situation, productivity plummets in the absence of organization-wide, real-time communication and collaboration. Our work with Covergence completely solves this problem.”
“Enterprises are deploying Unified Communications rapidly and are seeking a way to unlock the ROI and productivity-enhancing benefits,” said Bob O’Neil, President and CEO, Covergence. “With Instant Technologies and Covergence Session Manager, enterprises gain an interoperability solution that can be broadly deployed. The Instant Technologies-Covergence partnership gives enterprises the security, reliability and manageability that their organizations mandate enabling them to make a seamless transition to Unified Communications.”
Both components of the joint solution are available individually from their respective developers.
About Instant Technologies
Instant Technologies specializes in developing innovative, enterprise-class compliance and productivity solutions for IBM Lotus Sametime and Microsoft Office Communications Server, including IM archiving, IM queue management, persistent chat rooms, IM bot development, buddy list administration, and more. Instant Technologies is a Lotus Advanced Business Partner and a Microsoft Registered Partner headquartered in Durham, NH.
About Covergence
Covergence is the leader in scaling, securing, and controlling VoIP and other real-time services. The award-winning Covergence Session Manager combines traditional session-border-control functionality with comprehensive security features and management tools. The Covergence Session Manager is purpose-built to securely and reliably connect users to VoIP and multi-media services while giving organizations the complete control and visibility they require. | 
