FOSTER CITY, Calif.-July 21, 2003 -- Building
upon over four years of experience delivering security, management
and control solutions for instant messaging and other forms of
real-time communications in the enterprise, FaceTime Communications
today announced a new partnership program for premier resellers and
solution providers to extend the reach of FaceTime's newest product
offerings through channel partners to meet increasing customer
demand in a variety of industries. The FaceTime Channel Partner
Program is designed to enable leading resellers and system
integrators in the messaging, collaboration and security markets to
expand their solution offerings by incorporating FaceTime's
products for the security, management and control of real-time
communications, such as IM and P2P. FaceTime'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. The
management and control capabilities of the company's
industry-leading IMAuditor enable resellers to provide customers
governed by SEC, NASD and other regulatory bodies with additional,
industry-standard compliance protection. FaceTime's newest security
product also enable enterprises to block the use of P2P networks,
protecting businesses from legal and network security threats. "The
growing market for our products has reached a stage where FaceTime
needs to fulfill the demand by partnering with top-notch systems
integrators, resellers, and managed service providers to further
extend the reach for our award-winning IM security and management
solutions," said Christopher S. Dean, senior vice president of
Marketing and Business Development for FaceTime Communications.
"Licensed by over 250 businesses, including 50% of the largest 100
global financial services firms, our industry-leading line of IM
security and management solutions are now available to premier
reseller partners to enhance their complementary offerings and in
other rapidly-growing markets such as healthcare, energy and
government." FaceTime will certify authorized resellers to sell,
deploy and support FaceTime's IM solutions for specific vertical
markets. A dedicated Strategic Alliances team will provide
resellers with sales, marketing, and support assistance for mutual
success. Partners participating in the reseller channel program
benefit from for pre- and post-sales technical support; an
extensive lead sharing program; active participation in a
collaborative marketing program; marketing development funds;
portal access for up-to-date product information; and extensive
product and sales training conducted quarterly in-person and via
the Web. Through select Channel Partner Program resellers,
customers will receive first-line customer support from a certified
technical support staff. "As instant messaging continues to
proliferate across multiple industries, businesses are clamoring
for solutions that manage and control its use," said Ian Singer,
President of Integration Consulting Group, Inc., previously the CEO
of SJ Technologies. "FaceTime's market leadership, technological
advances, and history of successfully delivering proven solutions
to customers concerned with safely deploying the power of real-time
communications were critical factors in our decision to add their
solutions to our product portfolio. With FaceTime, we have an
experienced, trusted partner to help us provide our customers with
comprehensive solutions that fully address their IM security and
management needs." FaceTime solutions currently available through
the reseller channel include:
- IM Guardian for Network Security
Deployed in the corporate demilitarized zone (DMZ), IM Guardian
acts as a security gateway for real-time communications, providing
protection from application vulnerabilities, management and control
with policies for application behavior, dynamic port negotiation,
network usage statistics and anti-virus scanning for file
transfers. Guardian allows customers added a security gateway to
manage the legitimate use of instant messaging while blocking the
use of all major P2P networks.
- IM Director for Management and Control
IM Director is deployed behind a company's corporate firewall for
the central management and control of all leading IM clients and
services in the enterprise. IM Director addresses the challenges of
managing and controlling the growing use of IM in corporations and
enhances IT visibility into the use of IM within the
enterprise.
- IMAuditor, the Industry Standard for Regulatory
Compliance
IMAuditor provides specific features that are critical for
compliance with SEC, NASD and other regulatory bodies, including
strict real-time logging, group and individual auditing, and
sophisticated management reporting of all IM traffic on any IM
network. For more information about the FaceTime Channel Partner
Program, please visit www.facetime.com/partners.
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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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