FOSTER CITY, Calif. - September 8, 2003 --
Furthering its leadership as the premier provider of security,
management and control solutions for instant messaging (IM) and
other forms of real-time communications in the enterprise, FaceTime
Communications, an active member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork,
today announced the introduction of IM Presence Manager for Oracle®
Application Server Portal. IM Presence Manager enables enterprise
customers to leverage the power of presence awareness within their
enterprise portal. The announcement was made at OracleWorld, being
held this week in San Francisco, California. Presence awareness,
the root technology behind IM's core value, allows users to
instantly detect the online availability of other users and connect
with them in real-time. With the FaceTime-enabled presence
aggregation capabilities running within Oracle Application Server
Portal, customers will be able to detect the availability of an
individual or project group and engage in real-time communication,
regardless of the enterprise or public instant messaging network,
all within a multitude of shared business applications and
processes. "The integration of instant messaging and presence into
business portals is a response to the business need to foster
greater collaboration within remote work environments," said Robert
Mahowald, research manager at IDC. "The beneficiaries of
'contextual collaboration' relationships between vendors like
Oracle and FaceTime are clearly business users, who can work more
productively in these presence-enabled portals to collaborate where
and when they want, as opposed to toggling back and forth between
application silos." Oracle Application Server Portal offers a rich
environment for creating a portal Web interface, publishing and
managing information, accessing dynamic data, and customizing the
portal experience. Enabling Oracle Application Server Portal with
presence allows users to detect and communicate with other users
within the context of the subject matter. For instance, when
searching for corporate resources or documents via the Oracle
Application Server Portal, users can detect whether the author is
available to answer questions. One such application might include a
support help desk, where users can detect and connect with an HR
administrator in real-time for answers to questions about specific
benefits or policies. "FaceTime demonstrates continued leadership
by delivering on the promise of presence awareness as a killer app
and integrating it into a variety of enterprise applications," said
FaceTime's vice president of products and chief technology officer,
Jonathan Christensen. "Oracle Application Server Portal provides
customers with a complete, integrated application server for fast,
reliable, and scalable applications. By integrating our IM Presence
Manager into Oracle Application Server Portal, enterprises can
collaborate with customers, partners and employees in the context
of the task at hand for greater productivity and cost savings."
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resources they need to be successful in today's Internet economy.
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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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