FOSTER CITY, Calif., April 15, 2002 -- FaceTime
Communications, the premier provider of network-independent instant
messaging (IM) applications for business, today announced that it
has integrated its award-winning IMAuditor application with IBM
Lotus Software's Sametime real-time collaboration software and has
joined the IBM PartnerWorld Program. This integrated IM solution
enables enterprise customers who use Sametime's Business Instant
Messaging to leverage the strength of IMAuditor to centrally
manage, capture, store and supervise internal and external IM
communications on the Sametime network for regulatory compliance.
Lotus Sametime is in use at 50 Global Fortune 100 companies and has
approximately 5 million worldwide corporate users that can securely
communicate while ensuring corporate compliance, auditing, and
administrative controls are now in place. "The rise in popularity
of Sametime reflects the enterprise recognition of instant
messaging as a valuable platform for real-time collaboration. The
integration of IMAuditor and Lotus Sametime, both standards in
enterprise IM use, enables us to provide our customers
best-of-breed regulatory compliance and auditing atop the Lotus
Sametime platform," said Michael Loria, IBM Lotus Software.
"FaceTime's proven ability to audit IM usage for any network
solidified our decision to team with them." "We are pleased to be a
member of the IBM PartnerWorld Program," said Glen Vondrick,
FaceTime's President and CEO. "Teaming with IBM further extends our
position as the leading value-add solution for multiple instant
messaging networks. Lotus Sametime is tremendously successful in
the enterprise for IM communications and now with the IMAuditor
integration, Sametime users can enjoy the benefits of communicating
in real-time, while ensuring proper administrative controls are in
place." The IMAuditor Gateway for Lotus Sametime is available from
FaceTime as an add-on option to FaceTime's standard IMAuditor
application and will be available April 30th. FaceTime's unique
technology advantage, IM expertise, and ability to provide
customers with authorized application access and integration to any
network, enables the company to deliver practical, value-add
solutions on multiple IM network infrastructures for any business.
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 IM networks.
IMAuditor provides the following capabilities:
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IM Compliance
Supervision - the ability to monitor IM message
content for words or phrases restricted by employee roles.
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IM Access Control - the
ability to allow or disallow certain employees to use IM, and to
enforce the use of only business professional IM screen
names.
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IM Identity Management
- the ability to map IM screen names with corporate employee
Ids.
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IM Export - the ability
to export complete IM conversations as e-mails to any corporate
e-mail system, e-mail compliance systems, or storage systems.
The FaceTime IMAuditor Gateway for Lotus Sametime includes an
easy installation and configuration process, no change in behavior
for users of instant messaging clients, Web-based reports, and
support for existing corporate proxy servers.
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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