FOSTER CITY, Calif., November 05, 2001 --
FaceTime Communications, the premier provider of instant messaging
for business, today announced that Thomas Weisel Partners, a
leading merchant bank providing investment banking, institutional
brokerage, private client services, private equity and asset
management to the growth sectors of the economy, has chosen
FaceTime's IMAuditor product to enable real-time communications for
its traders and their customers. The result gives Thomas Weisel the
ability to leverage the power of the public instant messaging
networks from AOL Time Warner, Microsoft and Yahoo! for
time-sensitive business communications, while ensuring
administrative controls are in place to comply with government
regulations. "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 must consider the critical need to log and
audit those conversations." "Thomas Weisel Partners, as a leading
adopter of technology in the financial services market, views its
choice of FaceTime's IMAuditor as a significant competitive
advantage for its traders and clients, who can now use an already
familiar tool to conduct time-sensitive business communications,"
said Robert Hahn, CIO, Thomas Weisel Partners. "FaceTime's
interface to the AOL, MSN and Yahoo! networks, and the fact that
they are the only solution that can audit all public IM network
traffic, solidified our confidence in FaceTime's ability to offer
our employees and clients another important means of contact, while
meeting our compliance and technology management needs."
"FaceTime's research has revealed an explosive grassroots adoption
of AOL, MSN, and Yahoo! instant messaging usage by traders and
broker-dealers for time-sensitive communications with their
clients," said Glen Vondrick, FaceTime's President and CEO.
"IMAuditor enables them to continue using these public IM networks,
without any change of software, while still satisfying the SEC
compliance regulations. Thomas Weisel's decision to partner with
FaceTime validates the importance of our unique offering for
financial institutions." FaceTime's partnerships with AOL Time
Warner, Microsoft and Yahoo! give the company the ability to
develop industry leading value-added IM solutions. FaceTime's
unique licensing agreement with AOL Time Warner has enabled the
company to be the first to deliver authorized solutions on the AOL
AIM network. FaceTime's partnerships provide IT professionals the
confidence and security they need to allow access to the public IM
networks via IMAuditor for regulatory compliance. 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. 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
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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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