FOSTER CITY, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ --
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 today announced it is integrating its real-time
communications platform and enterprise suite of IM security and
management solutions with Microsoft(R) Office Live Communications
Server 2003. The release of Microsoft Office Live Communications
Server 2003 strongly validates FaceTime's early vision for the
leveraging of IM and presence by business-critical workflows.
Microsoft's leading position in the enterprise provides FaceTime
with the opportunity to build IM and presence solutions for a new
host of customers that have been anticipating an extensible
Microsoft platform on which to deploy real-time communications.
FaceTime provides enterprise customers with the controls necessary
to safely extend Live Communications Server to other enterprise
applications that depend on real-time communications for universal
reach. Organizations already leveraging FaceTime's enterprise IM
solutions can easily deploy Live Communications Server and benefit
from its powerful, enterprise-wide collaboration capabilities
without sacrificing connections made with business communities on
other networks. "Live Communications Server provides a solid
foundation for partners to build reliable, easy-to-deploy
management solutions for IM, video and data collaboration, and
voice," said Ed Simnett, lead product manager for Live
Communications Server at Microsoft. "As a certified Microsoft
partner, FaceTime can integrate its suite of solutions into any
line-of-business application built on industry-standard protocols,
enabling business to gain the full benefit of real-time
communications in the enterprise." "We see the availability of Live
Communications Server as a critical go-ahead for integrating
presence and instant messaging into a wide variety of important
business applications," said FaceTime Vice President of Products
and Chief Technology Officer Jonathan Christensen. "By combining
our leadership and technological innovation with that of Microsoft
and other industry bellwethers, FaceTime can continue to deliver
best-of-breed solutions that enable the real-time enterprise."
Forthcoming Live Communications Server supported releases of
FaceTime's market-leading IMAuditor solution for regulatory
compliance, and IM Director for the security, management and
control of IM, will be available in Q4 2003. FaceTime's enterprise
IM management suite of solutions for regulatory compliance logging
and auditing, network security, presence-based portals, and
customer service can enable IT organizations to apply standard
business and network 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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