FOSTER CITY, Calif., and FAIRFAX, Va., November 12,
2001 -- FaceTime Communications, the premier provider of
instant messaging (IM) applications for business, and SRA
International, Inc., an information technology firm that provides
systems integration, consulting, and eBusiness and eGovernment
services and solutions, today announced a strategic partnership. In
this partnership, FaceTime has chosen SRA as its preferred provider
for content scanning and archiving, and SRA has chosen FaceTime as
its preferred provider of value-added solutions for public IM
network access. Together, the two companies will bring instant
messaging and content scanning solutions to the financial services
industry to comply with federal regulations that require
supervision, recording, and storage of electronic communications.
"FaceTime's unique ability to offer financial services firms a
server that provides interoperability with the public IM networks
from AOL, MSN, and Yahoo!, combined with our new Assentor
partnership, enables brokers and traders to continue using instant
messaging for external communications without the risk of
regulatory compliance exposure," said Glen Vondrick, President and
CEO of FaceTime. "The strength of our combined solution provides
our customers, like Thomas Weisel Partners, with the most
comprehensive solution for auditing, archiving, and scanning both
public IM network traffic and e-mail communications. Our customers
can continue to use public IM networks to conduct time-sensitive
business communications while ensuring all conversations are
audited and available for scanning in conjunction with SRA's
Assentor solution." "We are excited that two of the leading
technology suppliers in the financial services market have teamed
up to provide an integrated IM solution," said Robert Hahn, CIO of
Thomas Weisel Partners. "This new technology differentiates us from
other firms because our brokers can now use their familiar IM
clients from AOL, MSN and Yahoo!, to communicate with their
customers, and our IT staff can seamlessly support both IM and
e-mail communications while ensuring that we are compliant with the
appropriate SEC regulations." The partnership is further enhanced
by SRA's Assentor solutions for communications security in the
financial services industry. Assentor's capabilities include
digital signature and e-mail encryption, content scanning,
archiving, and retrieval. As part of the partnership, SRA has
developed and plans to sell a new software product,Assentor IM
Link. Assentor IM Link uses FaceTime's IMAuditor to audit IM
content while Assentor IM Link scans, archives and retrieves IM.
The result is a comprehensive e-mail and IM auditing package for
the financial services industry. Assentor IM Link provides evidence
of review and meets compliance regulations using a single interface
for both e-mail and IM - a convenience compliance officers are sure
to appreciate. "After gaining feedback from our customers, it
became clear that FaceTime is the only company that can provide our
customers with value-added IM solutions with authorized access to
the public IM networks," said Emerson Thompson, Senior Vice
President and Managing Director of Assentor for SRA. "Many of our
customers rely on the use of public IM networks to conduct their
daily business. This partnership allows us to provide them with a
comprehensive auditing, archiving, and scanning solution for all
e-mail and IM communications."
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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