FOSTER CITY, Calif., Oct. 15, 2002 --
Continuing to build on its leadership position as the premier
provider of network-independent enterprise solutions for the
management and control of instant messaging (IM), FaceTime
Communications today announced that Fulcrum Global Partners LLC, a
securities firm serving the research and trade execution needs of
hedge funds, asset managers and institutions, has chosen FaceTime's
IMAuditor product to enable compliant real-time communications for
institutional traders. IMAuditor gives Fulcrum the ability to
leverage the power of public instant messaging networks for
time-sensitive, business-critical business communications while
ensuring administrative controls are in place to comply with
government regulations. "Fulcrum views its choice of FaceTime's
IMAuditor as a significant competitive advantage for our traders
who can now use an already familiar IM tool to conduct
time-sensitive business transactions," said Roshan Shiwcharran,
vice president for networking and system administration, Fulcrum
Global Partners LLC. "It is vital that we plan for the future and
partner with leaders who have a proven track record supporting
global enterprise customers. We researched the market and found
that all the leading financial services firms have adopted
FaceTime. Their impressive list of customers and long established
partnerships with all the leading IM network providers made
selecting IMAuditor an easy choice for our IM management
infrastructure solution." "For over four years, FaceTime's IM
network-independent server solutions for customer service call
centers, community marketplaces, and regulatory compliance auditing
have been helping enterprise customers leverage the power of
instant messaging for competitive advantage," said Glen Vondrick,
FaceTime's president and CEO. "We are pleased to have another
financial services leader choose FaceTime IMAuditor to control,
manage, audit, and report on instant messaging traffic in the
enterprise. As the IM market continues to rapidly evolve, FaceTime
is proud to demonstrate our historical leadership by being the
first company to help enterprise customers such as Fulcrum
successfully integrate IM networks into their business process
workflow." 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 server solutions on multiple IM network
infrastructures for any business. The FaceTime IMAuditor server
solution is installed behind corporate firewalls and features IT
administrative controls that extend the IM networks-both private
and public-and enables customers to control, access, manage and
interoperate with all IM networks with such features as capturing,
recording, and reporting conversations on multiple IM networks and
devices, wired or wireless, for use within the enterprise.
FaceTime's IMAuditor provides IT professionals the confidence and
information security controls to manage public and private IM
networks in the enterprise. The FaceTime IMAuditor includes an easy
installation and configuration process, no change in behavior for
users of existing instant messaging clients and buddy lists,
Web-based reports, and support for existing corporate proxy
servers. Fulcrum Global Partners LLC
Fulcrum Global Partners LLC is a full-service securities brokerage
firm, established in May 2001, focused primarily on the research
and trade execution needs of hedge funds and asset managers. The
firm does not engage in the public offering of securities or
traditional investment banking activities. As a result, the
integrity of its research product is maintained and not tainted by
conflicts of interest. The firm provides superior execution and
block trading capabilities through a team of seasoned professional
traders.
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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