New York, NY-June 17, 2003 -- Building upon over four years of
experience delivering enterprise infrastructure and business
solutions that extend the power of instant messaging (IM) and other
forms of real-time communications in the enterprise, FaceTime
Communications today announced the availability of IMAuditor 4.0
for greater control of IM to ensure proper compliance with the
latest government regulations in addition to enhanced productivity
features and integration capabilities. IMAuditor 4.0 expands on
FaceTime's award-winning and market-leading IMAuditor 3.0, deployed
by over 100 financial services organizations, to provide new
regulatory compliance workflow capabilities, including enhanced
logging, auditing, and reporting of all instant messaging (IM)
traffic for any government-regulated industry. The announcement was
made at the Securities Industry Association's Technology Management
Conference & Exhibit being held this week in New York
City.
"We're pleased to see FaceTime continue to enhance the
functionality of IMAuditor," said Thomas Weisel Partners Director
of Compliance Pam Housley, recently awarded the distinction of
Compliance Officer of the Year by Institutional Investor's
Compliance Reporter, for her early leadership in identifying
instant messaging as an important electronic communication
requiring compliance monitoring and auditing. "FaceTime continues
to listen to the needs of their customers and deliver solutions
that address all of our IM regulatory compliance needs."
"As an early advocate of the regulatory compliance implications of
logging, archiving and supervision of electronic communications, I
am pleased to see how FaceTime's leadership has helped protect the
integrity of the capital markets as well as the American investor,"
said Henry Wolfgang Carter, former chief compliance officer and
assistant general counsel of E*TRADE. "FaceTime's technological
innovation, detailed understanding of the current regulatory issues
surrounding IM, and ability to serve compliance officer needs in
this new era of regulation, technology and compliance is a
remarkable achievement."
IMAuditor extends the real-time management and control
capabilities of FaceTime IM Director (see yesterday's related
FaceTime announcement) by providing specialized compliance features
requested by FaceTime's leading finance, energy and healthcare
customers to ensure consistent and reliable processes that meet
regulatory compliance auditing workflow requirements. The product
additionally enhances IT ease-of-use and end user productivity
while providing seamless integration with FaceTime technology
partner-enabled email content scanning, archiving, natural language
processors and WORM drive storage infrastructure.
"Instant messaging use on multiple IM networks continues to
explode rapidly throughout businesses where time sensitivity is
critical, such as the financial services community where regulatory
compliance concerns are critically important," said FaceTime CEO
Glen D. Vondrick. "As the industry standard in IM compliance, with
a proven history of leadership and the ability to integrate into
any existing compliance workflow infrastructure, FaceTime maintains
its commitment to providing regulated businesses with the power to
safely leverage the advantages of real-time electronic
communications, which are essential to a competitive
business."
While IM Director provides IM management features to ensure
compliance with internal HR, legal, and other internal business
policies in addition to the USA Patriot Act, IMAuditor extends
these capabilities to ensure any IM use by regulated businesses
complies with the appropriate regulatory laws and governing bodies.
These include:
For Energy Companies:
* Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
For Financial Services Institutions:
* National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD)
* New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
For Government Agencies:
* Department of Defense Directive (DoDD) 5015
For Healthcare Companies:
* Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPAA)
For Publicly Traded Companies:
* Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA)
* Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Key New Capabilities of IMAuditor 4.0 Include:
For Compliance Officers:
* Guaranteed Logging - Ability to assign regulatory compliance
features at the group level with guaranteed logging, ensuring that
no communications take place that are not audited
* Internal Communication Management - "Chinese Walls" provide
ability to administer and enforce levels of authorization that
ensure communication compliance standards between traders and other
groups
For IT Administrators:
* Internationalization - Support for languages in addition to
English allows disclaimers to be set for employees throughout the
world, and for reviewers to see conversation transcripts in native
languages
* Reports - Empowers IT to view the company's IM usage patterns
and statistics in real time through comprehensive visual reports;
includes the ability to identify groups, employees and outsiders
that are most active; uses pie charts and bar graphs to navigate
among the multitude of statistics organized by IM network, group
and employee
* Enhanced Directory Integration Capabilities
* Client Version Control - Allows IT to mandate the use of and
standardize desktops on sanctioned consumer IM clients
* Alerts - Friendly text messages sent to users when business
policies are violated
* External Communication Management - Enables IT to administer
whether or not employees can communicate with non-employees
(external users) at the enterprise, group and user levels
For Employees/Traders:
* Personal IM Reports - Enables traders and brokers to reference
their IM conversations in support of their trading activity
FaceTime's IMAuditor customers receive the core management and
control features of the FaceTime IM Director server with IMAuditor
4.0 as part of their maintenance and support agreements, enabling
easy expansion from regulatory compliance line-of-business use to
general management and control of IM across the entire
enterprise.
IMAuditor 4.0 will be generally available June 30, 2003. For
additional sales information, FaceTime can be reached at
http://www.facetime.com/imwithus.htm, (888) 349-FACE, or via IM
screen name FaceTimeLive.
FaceTime provides its customers with a comprehensive approach to
the centralized security, management and control of real-time
communications in the enterprise. The company's enterprise IM
management suite of solutions enables IT organizations to apply
standard business use policies to all diverse methods of real-time
communications on any public, private or enterprise network.
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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