PLEASANTON, CA and FOSTER CITY, CA (December 17,
2001) -- ZANTAZ, a leader in regulatory and legal
compliance technology solutions for the financial services
industry, and FaceTime Communications, the premier provider of
instant messaging (IM) applications for business, today announced
that they have entered into a reseller agreement. As part of the
agreement, ZANTAZ will integrate FaceTime's IMAuditor with ZANTAZ
DigitalSafeTM archiving services to provide a comprehensive instant
messaging logging and archiving solution that complies with federal
and industry regulations for financial services companies. The
combined ZANTAZ/FaceTime solution offers brokerage and other
financial firms the ability to manage and monitor IM communication
across all major public IM networks, including AOL, MSN and Yahoo!
-- while complying with relevant SEC and NASD regulations. FaceTime
will also develop an IM Connector that enables instant messages to
be automatically routed to the ZANTAZ DigitalSafe for archiving,
searching and immediate retrieval capabilities. "We are pleased to
partner with an instant messaging leader like FaceTime to further
strengthen and expand our compliance technology solutions for the
financial services industry," said Steve King, president and CEO of
ZANTAZ. "The ZANTAZ/FaceTime partnership is another powerful
demonstration of how ZANTAZ is helping financial services companies
solve urgent regulatory and audit compliance problems through
innovative and cost-effective technology, our proven DigitalSafe
archiving infrastructure and Professional Services expertise."
"Financial institutions continue to discover widespread heavy use
of instant messaging by broker-dealer-traders for time-sensitive
business communications," said Glen D. Vondrick, President and CEO
of FaceTime. "FaceTime's unique ability to offer an enterprise
solution that provides integration with the public instant
messaging networks from AOL, MSN, and Yahoo!, enables these firms
to seamlessly integrate compliance solutions with their existing
processes. Our partnership with ZANTAZ ensures all instant
messaging conversations on any network are archived and supervised
in conjunction with the secure, scalable ZANTAZ DigitalSafe
services."
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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