FOSTER CITY, Calif., October 1, 2002 --
FaceTime Communications, the premier provider of
network-independent instant messaging (IM) applications for
business, today announced that the company has integrated its
award-winning IMAuditor application with IBM's new Lotus Sametime 3
real-time collaboration software. This integrated IM solution
enables enterprise customers who use Lotus Sametime to leverage the
strength of IMAuditor to centrally manage, capture, store and
supervise internal and external IM communications on the Sametime
network. The result is improved information security management and
regulatory compliance for firms regulated by government agencies.
Lotus Sametime is in use at 60 Global Fortune 100 companies and has
more than seven million worldwide corporate users, and FaceTime's
IMAuditor is installed in more than 30 leading enterprises. With
the integration of FaceTime's IMAuditor, those customers can
securely communicate while ensuring corporate compliance, auditing
and administrative controls are in place. "The rise in popularity
of Lotus Sametime reflects recognition by corporations of instant
messaging as a valuable business and application platform for
real-time collaboration," said Michael Loria, Director of Advanced
Collaboration, IBM Lotus Software. "The integration of IMAuditor
and the release of Lotus Sametime 3, both standards in enterprise
IM use, enable us to provide our customers best-of-breed regulatory
compliance and auditing on top of the Lotus Sametime platform."
"FaceTime currently has several customers utilizing our integration
with Lotus Sametime, and we are pleased to be able to offer them a
seamless upgrade to Sametime 3," said Glen D. Vondrick, FaceTime's
President and CEO. "Lotus Sametime is a tremendously successful IM
communications tool in the enterprise, and our 100 plus customers
using our family of IM applications, from regulatory compliance to
customer service, can now incorporate Sametime into their business
workflow." The Gateway for Lotus Sametime is available from
FaceTime as an add-on option to FaceTime's standard IM applications
and is available immediately. 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.
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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