FOSTER CITY, Calif.-November 5, 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 today announced it will integrate the FaceTime IM
Presence Manager with IBM WebSphere Portal. This announcement was
made in conjunction with the launch of IBM Lotus Workplace. IBM
WebSphere Portal enables users to detect individual or project
group availabilities and engage in real-time communication within a
multitude of shared business applications and processes. The
integration of IM Presence Manager with IBM WebSphere extends the
portal's Lotus IM-enabled presence capabilities to interconnect
with the enterprise and public IM networks. By delivering the
ability to utilize multi-network communications with sophisticated
security and management capabilities, FaceTime allows businesses to
benefit from the universal reach of customers, partners and fellow
employees for efficient and close-knit collaboration in a highly
configurable and controlled environment. "FaceTime and IBM have
many joint enterprise customers utilizing our IM management and
security solutions with the IBM Lotus Sametime instant messaging
network, and this new alliance with IBM builds upon our success as
the latest in a series of partnerships that aim to deliver on the
promise of the real-time enterprise through collaborative,
presence-enabled applications," said FaceTime's vice president of
products and chief technology officer, Jonathan Christensen.
"Integrating our IM Presence Manager into IBM WebSphere Portal
gives enterprises the sophisticated security and management
capabilities they need to ensure they're protected as customers,
partners and employees are allowed to communicate in real time
without any network limitations." IM Presence Manager enables
presence to be embedded in enterprise workflow applications such as
Web-based portals. It provides presence and availability management
for registered users, presence aggregation for communities of
related users, and presence-based decision making for business
process workflows such as connecting buyers and sellers together
for customer service. IM Presence Manager builds on IM Director to
provide enterprise-class scalability and reliability. Embedding
presence in business applications enables benefits such as
increased process velocity resulting in productivity gains and cost
effectiveness for the enterprise. FaceTime's enterprise IM
management suite of solutions can enable IT organizations to apply
standard business use policies to all diverse methods of real-time
communications on any public, private or enterprise network,
including centralized IT management, control, security, and the
ability to extend presence into business process workflow
applications.
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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