FOSTER CITY, Calif., February 4, 2002 --
FaceTime Communications, the premier provider of
network-independent instant messaging (IM) applications for
business, today announced the immediate availability of its
IMAuditor 2.0 application that features enhanced IT administrative
controls to address the regulatory compliance requirements of
financial services firms. FaceTime IMAuditor 2.0 is the result of
increased demand from financial securities firms for a compliant IM
solution that can capture, record, and report conversations on
multiple IM networks, both private and public, in use within the
enterprise. Successful, rapid implementations of FaceTime's initial
IMAuditor with leading securities firms such as Thomas Weisel
Partners, Banc of America Securities, and others, demonstrate
FaceTime's leadership in providing value-add applications that
leverage the widespread adoption and usage of multiple IM networks
within the enterprise. IMAuditor 2.0 features on-line identity
management and IM screen name mapping to employee ID directories
that enable financial services organizations to authorize employees
to continue using the popular 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. "We are pleased with the results we have
seen from FaceTime," said Beth Cannon, Chief Technology Officer of
Thomas Weisel Partners. " In just two months time, we have over 400
registered users on the FaceTime server. By the end of the year the
company will have over 600 users conducting business with the
FaceTime IMAuditor. At Thomas Weisel, we believe in staying ahead
of the technology curve and FaceTime's IM solutions allow us to
manage and monitor our instant messaging usage and stay in
compliance." "As Instant Messaging for Business becomes prevalent,
it is essential for companies to extend the same level of control
over IM that exists currently for email," said Rob Batchelder, a
Research Director at Gartner. "This includes integrating IM
namespaces into enterprise identity and on-line authentication
systems and managing buddy names such that they will work over
private as well as public IM networks such as AOL, Microsoft and
Yahoo!." 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 any IM
network, private or public. IMAuditor 2.0 provides the following
new capabilities independent of the IM network being used:
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Identity management, whereby employee buddy and
screen names can be mapped to an employee's corporate ID enabling
IT and compliance to know who is using what screen name
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More sophisticated control over which employees
can and cannot use IM
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Grouping of employees for more efficient
monitoring and reporting by compliance personnel
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Ability to specify restricted keywords and
phrases by groups
IMAuditor 2.0 now extends beyond compliance needs to include
enhancements that meet the administrative needs of IT professionals
who need to gain more granular levels of control and reporting for
public IM network usage within the enterprise. "Since the release
of IMAuditor late last year, we've helped broker-dealers to
capture, record, and report on any IM network used inside
enterprise walls or for communication outside enterprise
boundaries," said Glen Vondrick, President and CEO of FaceTime.
"The sales momentum we've generated by signing numerous new
customers during the last quarter demonstrates how wide the
adoption and usage of IM networks is in business. IMAuditor's
unique IM network independence offers financial services firms the
ability to satisfy employees' needs to continue using public IM
networks while meeting the firms' needs for regulatory
compliance."
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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