FOSTER CITY, Calif. - August 3, 2004 - FaceTime
Communications, a leading provider of solutions that secure,
manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and other forms of
real-time communications, today announced RTMatrix™ to meet growing
developer demand for APIs that can extend IM and presence awareness
into myriad ERP, Web-based portals, Web conferencing and other
business-critical applications and systems. Further expanding on
its long and well-established relationship with FaceTime, America
Online, Inc. extended its AOL® Instant Messenger™ (AIM®) Certified
Application Partner Agreement to include RTMatrix, a free IM and
presence platform and tool kit that will be made available to
developers that leverage the security, management and compliance
benefits of FaceTime IM Director™ or IMAuditor™. "With enterprise
IM connectivity becoming a reality, we are pleased to see FaceTime
making it possible for businesses to push the expanded reach of IM
and the true potential of presence deeper into critical enterprise
functions," said Edmund Fish, senior vice president and general
manager, Desktop Messaging, America Online, Inc. "With RTMatrix, a
proven enabler of IM and presence aware applications, developers
can extend presence into any new application that would benefit
from contextual real-time communications." Following last year's
innovative work on integrating presence services with BEA WebLogic
Platform 8.1, IBM WebSphere Portal, Oracle Application Server
Portal and shipping integration with Cisco MeetingPlace Server,
RTMatrix is being delivered with new, intuitive tools that help
third-party developers prepare applications for a new era in the
way workers, partners and customers communicate. "Microsoft's
agreement to provide joined, multi-network instant messaging in the
enterprise gives large companies the go-ahead to start building IM
and presence-enabled applications that foster the kind of close
collaboration among workers, partners and customers that was never
before possible," said Matt Cain, Communication and Collaboration
analyst at META Group. "Vendors that expose the APIs of their IM
and presence developer platforms and provide developer kits that
allow for the quick and easy extension of IM and presence are doing
much to catalyze this next step in the march toward a real-time
enterprise." Providing support for Java, J2EE, and Web services,
RTMatrix features network independent APIs for session management,
presence and alerts, identity management, and application
framework. Field-tested developer content will be updated to
include a comprehensive reference guide and libraries, application
examples and code snippets, an application deployment wizard, and
full developer support. "With workers becoming increasingly
mobilized, and partners and customers wanting to collaborate more
closely than ever, the dawn of the decentralized enterprise is upon
us," said FaceTime CEO Kailash Ambwani. "For organizations to
compete, they will need to compete in real time. RTMatrix gives
them the power to do that." Many of the world's leading
technological bellwethers are already working with RTMatrix as part
of FaceTime's beta development program. For more information about
the program, please visit www.facetime.com/developer. RTMatrix will
be generally available in Q4, 2004.
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