FOSTER CITY, Calif. October 1, 2001 -- FaceTime
Communications, the premier provider of instant messaging (IM)
applications for business, today announced the availability of its
new IMAuditor solution. As part of the FaceTime Instant Message
Director family of products, IMAuditor enables financial services
organizations the ability to leverage the power of public instant
messaging networks from AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! for
time-sensitive communications, while ensuring administrative
controls are in place to comply with government regulations. The
tremendous popularity of the public instant messaging networks in
the corporate workplace is causing serious compliance and
technology management challenges for many organizations, especially
large financial institutions. Until now, sensitive information
exchanged on the AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! IM networks could not be
tracked, logged, saved, or audited. Firms in the financial services
industry such as securities traders, broker-dealers, merchant banks
and commodity futures dealers are all subject to detailed SEC
regulations that require the recording and storage of data to
ensure that electronic communication is recorded and archived for
compliance purposes. "Instant Messaging has become an important
means of business communication, said Brad Adrian, Analyst with
Gartner Financial Services. Financial enterprises using instant
messaging to conduct business transactions must consider the
critical need to log and audit those conversations." The FaceTime
IMAuditor enables IT departments to install a back-end software
server behind their Internet firewall in order to manage and
monitor instant messaging communication across all major public IM
networks. FaceTime's latest offering helps senior IT management
take advantage of the real-time communication benefits that instant
messaging has to offer without having to impose access and usage
restrictions on their employees. IMAuditor provides the following
capabilities:
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Archiving of data to an auditable database
Content scanning and Web-based query and
retrieval of stored data
Keyword watch lists for monitoring content of
messages to ensure propriety of business communications
Automatic display of disclaimer notices on all
instant messaging communication, management control of IM
communication
Valuable insight on the usage of instant
messaging
The FaceTime IMAuditor includes an easy installation and
configuration process, no change in behavior for users of instant
messaging clients, Web-based reports, and support for existing
corporate proxy servers. "With the proliferation of employees using
instant messaging and engaging in critical, real-time business
communication, IT and compliance officers are focusing on the use
of IM within the enterprise," said Glen Vondrick, President and CEO
of FaceTime. "Corporate communication has traditionally been
governed by information technology policies, but historically these
same policies have been difficult (or impossible) to apply to the
public instant messaging networks. Our product, IMAuditor, answers
a great need in the financial services industry by tracking,
storing and archiving sensitive IM communications and information."
FaceTime's partnership and unique licensing agreement with AOL Time
Warner has enabled FaceTime to be the first company to deliver
authorized value-add solutions on the AOL AIM network. This
provides IT professionals the confidence and security they need to
allow access to the AIM network via IMAuditor for regulatory
compliance. The licensing agreement allows financial services
employees, such as brokers and traders, to continue to use IM as an
effective communications channel with their customers. "America
Online popularized instant messaging, one of the fastest growing
communication channels among consumers. Through our partnership
with FaceTime and their licensed integration with the AOL Instant
Messenger service, instant messaging for business will provide a
valuable communication and productivity tool for enterprises," said
Raul Mujica, Vice President and General Manager - AOL Instant
Messenger. |
About Actiance, Inc. (Formerly FaceTime Communications, Inc.)
FaceTime Communications became Actiance, Inc on January 11, 2011 following an agreement to
transfer the FaceTime trademark to Apple.
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of Unified Communications and Web 2.0,
including instant messaging, blogs and social networking. Ranked number one by IDC for five consecutive
years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by more than 1,500 customers for the security,
management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime supports or has strategic partnerships
with all leading IM, unified communications providers and social networks including AOL, Google, Yahoo!,
Skype, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit
http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-3223.
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