FOSTER CITY, Calif., April 22, 2002 -- FaceTime
Communications, furthering its leadership as the premier provider
of network-independent instant messaging (IM) applications for
business, today announced that Dominion Energy Clearinghouse, the
marketing and trading arm of one of the nation's largest producers
of energy, has chosen FaceTime's IMAuditor product for real-time
communication by its energy traders. IMAuditor gives Dominion
Energy Clearinghouse the ability to leverage the power of the
public instant messaging network from America Online (AOL) for
time-sensitive business communications, while ensuring
administrative controls are in place. As a result, Dominion Energy
Clearinghouse can closely manage IM communication by its traders.
This new customer win marks the expansion of FaceTime's IMAuditor
into the energy market. "Our energy traders depend on IM as a
critical tool to conduct time-sensitive business communications,"
said David Jewett, senior systems architect for Dominion Energy
Clearinghouse. "IMAuditor satisfies all of our requirements and we
had the product tested, evaluated, configured and put into
production in record time." "We are excited to have Dominion Energy
Clearinghouse as our first energy trading customer," said Glen
Vondrick, FaceTime's President and CEO. "IMAuditor's initial
success with financial traders in regulatory markets is spreading
to all forms of trading environments. IMAuditor leverages any IM
network, without any change of client software, while still giving
IT management proper control over its use. Dominion Energy
Clearinghouse's decision to partner with FaceTime further
demonstrates that FaceTime is the standard for auditing instant
messaging in multiple markets." 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-added solutions on
multiple IM network infrastructures for any business. FaceTime's IM
network partnerships provide IT professionals the confidence and
security they need to allow access to the public IM networks via
IMAuditor. 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. 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 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 Dominion Energy
Clearinghouse
The Dominion Energy Clearinghouse, headquartered in Richmond, buys
and sells electricity, natural gas, fuel oil, coal and emission
allowances, and provides a full range of asset management services.
It also provides customer service support, transportation,
capacity, storage and balancing service along interstate pipelines.
The Dominion Energy Clearinghouse is part of Dominion, one of the
nation's largest producers of energy with a production capability
of more than 3 trillion Btu of energy per day. For more information
about Dominion and the Dominion Energy Clearinghouse, visit the
company's Web site at www.dom.com.
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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