FOSTER CITY, Calif., December 11, 2001 --
FaceTime Communications, the premier provider of instant messaging
for business, today announced that Banc of America Securities, a
full-service investment bank and brokerage firm, has chosen
FaceTime's IMAuditor product to enable real-time communications for
its brokers and their customers. The result gives Banc of America
Securities the ability to leverage the power of the public instant
messaging networks from AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! for
time-sensitive business communications, while ensuring
administrative controls are in place to comply with government
regulations as Wall Street increasingly cracks down on untracked IM
use. "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." "Since FaceTime's release of IMAuditor, we've
experienced a great demand from the financial services industry due
to today's widespread use of the public instant messaging networks
by brokers, traders, and their business associates," said Glen
Vondrick, FaceTime's President and CEO. "Our continued success in
working with leading firms in the financial services industry
illustrates FaceTime's unique enterprise administration and
compliance tools, and further establishes instant messaging as an
important business application." 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 integration with AIM, MSN, and Yahoo! provides IT
professionals with 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 and other enter enterprise IM
networks. IMAuditor provides the following capabilities:
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Archiving of data to an auditable database
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Content scanning and Web-based query and
retrieval of stored data
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Keyword watch lists for monitoring content of
messages to ensure propriety of business communications
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Automatic display of disclaimer notices on all
instant messaging communication, management control of IM
communication
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Valuable insight on the usage of instant
messaging
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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