DULLES, Va. and FOSTER CITY, Calif.- April 12,
2004 - America Online, Inc., the world's leading
interactive services company, and FaceTime Communications Inc., a
premier provider of solutions that help secure, manage and extend
instant messaging (IM) and other forms of real time communications
in the enterprise, today announced an agreement establishing
FaceTime Communications as an AIM Certified Partner. Further
expanding the four-year relationship between FaceTime
Communications and AOL, America Online has certified FaceTime's IM
Director™ and IMAuditor™ as products that bring management, control
and added security to AOL® Instant Messenger™ (AIM®) traffic within
enterprises under the AIM® Certified Partner Program. Together,
FaceTime's enterprise-class management, compliance and security
solutions provide centralized control over all instant messaging
traffic from any corporate network. Through the AIM Certified
Partnership Program, America Online is working with leading
software companies such as FaceTime to certify applications for the
AIM® Network. The AIM Certified Partner Program establishes a
business and technology relationship between AOL and its partners
to connect their applications to the AIM network. The program helps
ensure that companies with AIM presence and integration within
their products will be fully supported, and that privacy, network
integrity, and network infrastructure will have added protection.
"We are very pleased that FaceTime has joined us as an AIM
Certified Partner," said Edmund Fish, Senior Vice President and
General Manager of AOL's Desktop Messaging. "FaceTime's innovative
solutions deliver immediate value, added confidence and increased
accountability for organizations that increasingly communicate
using instant messaging. AIM's messaging service and FaceTime's
management products together offer enterprises the tools and
resources they need to receive the benefit of real time
communications in a supported, more secure manner." "With the rapid
adoption of instant messaging as an essential productivity tool,
enterprises require robust network administration solutions to help
ensure the integrity and security of proprietary business
communications," said Kailash Ambwani, President and Chief
Executive Officer of FaceTime Communications. "As an AIM Certified
Partner, we enable our customers to continue leveraging the value
of AIM without jeopardizing regulatory compliance, worker
productivity or network and information security." FaceTime's IM
Director is an enterprise-class application that gives IT
professionals and system administrators the ability to manage user
policies and control IM use across multiple instant messaging
networks. IMAuditor helps address the regulatory compliance needs
of financial services firms, healthcare organizations, power
companies and other businesses that must adhere to stringent
government regulations. About America Online,
Inc.
America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL Time
Warner Inc. Based in Dulles, Va., America Online is the world's
leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies
and e-commerce services.
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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