IBM Sametime 8.5.2 provides enhancements that support the evolution to social business. Social business leverages new forms of communication like social networking and builds trusted relationships to increase sales and brand advocacy. It also drives operational effectiveness by allowing faster responses to opportunities. Sametime is positioned as the real-time social platform to enable the asynchronous and real-time interactions required by social business. It provides simple unified access to presence, messaging, meetings and social connections. A case study shows how one organization drove innovation, cost control and growth through their social business collaboration platform.