WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Nov. 18, 2003 - To help organizations meet
the increasing number of regulatory compliance provisions governing
electronic communications, Communicator Inc has signed a preferred
partnership agreement with FaceTime Communications. The partnership
provides companies that use Hub Connex(SM), Communicator's secure
business connectivity suite, enhanced options for managing, storing
and auditing electronic messages.
This new partnership ensures seamless integration between FaceTime
Communications' leading IM management suite, including IMAuditor
and IM Director, and two modules of Hub Connex, Forums, which
provide secure, multi-participant discussions, and Hub IM,
Communicator Inc's enterprise instant messaging service currently
used by more than 80,000 people at 2,000 companies worldwide.
Garban Intercapital, a customer of Communicator Inc's and FaceTime
Communications' integrated solution, provides a specialist
intermediary broking service to commercial banks, investment banks
and other liquidity providers in the wholesale financial markets.
Marie Patton, vice president at Garban, noted, "It's important for
Garban Intercapital to support rapid communication and
collaboration between our team and customers, as well as to archive
communications for policy reasons. The integrated solution we now
have in place from Communicator and FaceTime achieves these
goals."
FaceTime's IMAuditor enhances IT and compliance departments'
visibility into the use of real-time messaging within organizations
and gives customers the ability to record, store and supervise
electronic communications generated on heterogeneous systems. These
capabilities extend Hub Connex's built-in identity management,
community controls, archiving and reporting tools that include
message capture, logging and delivery of archives. Hub Connex can
be tailored to the needs of the customer and enhanced through
products and services from Communicator's partners to help
organizations adhere to the many new regulatory compliance
requirements and procedures governing electronic
communications.
"Communicator and FaceTime already share a number of existing and
prospective customers, many of whom have integrated our products to
successfully meet their needs," said FaceTime's vice president of
products and chief technology officer, Jonathan Christensen.
"Deployed by hundreds of financial services firms, FaceTime's
IMAuditor is now being combined with Communicator's Hub Connex to
meet rising demand for a comprehensive solution with proven
reliability and regulatory compliance in the field."
"Compliance is a critical issue for companies in regulated
industries such as financial services and the public sector," said
Gary Reifman, product manager for Messaging Services at
Communicator Inc. "Our goal is to provide Hub Connex customers an
array of options for managing their electronic messages. With the
addition of FaceTime to our partnership program, Communicator
delivers a comprehensive solution that meets regulatory compliance
requirements for the protection and management of electronic
information and communications."
Hub Connex is a secure business connectivity suite that connects
the right people to the right information in real-time. Hub Connex
is built on an open, modular platform integrating content
distribution, alerting, discussion forums, standards-based
enterprise instant messaging and presence, and identity-based
directory services. By using combinations of these capabilities for
real-time information sharing and collaboration, organizations make
decisions more quickly and intelligently, and build closer
relationships with customers, partners and colleagues across
locations. For more information about Hub Connex, visit
www.hubconnex.com.
About Communicator Inc
Communicator Inc provides a suite of secure software tools and
managed services that connect the right people to the right
information in real-time, within and across the extended
enterprise. The company's Communicator Hub business
connectivity/collaboration, identity management and information
exchange services can be used either individually or combined to
create industry-specific solutions for financial services, the
public sector and other highly regulated markets. The results are
faster collaborative decisions, stronger relationships and reduced
operational costs. Communicator is a privately held company
headquartered in White Plains, New York. For more information,
visit www.communicator.com, call 914-872-2800 or email
info@communicator.com.
About Actiance
Actiance helps organizations manage, secure and ensure compliance
across unified communications, collaboration and Web 2.0
applications such as blogs, wikis and social networks. Actiance's
award-winning platforms are used by 9 of the top 10 US banks and
284 FINRA regulated firms globally.
The Actiance platform allows organizations to gain visibility of
applications in use, apply usage and content policies, ensure
compliance and gain valuable insights across the communications and
collaboration channels. Actiance supports all leading social
networks, unified communications and collaboration providers and IM
platforms, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, Yahoo!,
AOL, Skype, Cisco, Microsoft, Jive, and IBM.
Actiance is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more
information visit or call 888-349-3223.
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