FOSTER CITY, CALIF. - March 28, 2005 -
Furthering its leadership as the premier provider of solutions that
secure, manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer
(P2P) applications, FaceTime today announced it has earned the
Lotus Advisor Editor's Choice Award for its Enterprise Edition
package of IM security and compliance tools for the second year in
a row. The Lotus Advisor editorial staff evaluated a wide array of
products at the Lotusphere 2005 show in January and selected the
most innovative IBM Lotus-related technologies for the magazine's
annual honors. FaceTime's Enterprise Edition IM security,
management and compliance solution was awarded the silver in the
"Instant Messaging Tools" category. "The editors of Lotus Advisor
Magazine are pleased to acknowledge the notable achievement of
FaceTime Communications with a 2005 Lotus Advisor Editors' Choice
silver Award for its innovative product," said John Hawkins,
Editorial Director, Lotus Advisor Magazine. "The Award recognizes
and celebrates strong tools and products for Lotus application
architects, developers, and administrators." FaceTime Enterprise
Edition is a comprehensive solution for the end-to-end security,
management and compliance of real-time communications that features
user policy management, hygiene, archiving for compliance, blocking
of unauthorized usage and network protection against sophisticated
workarounds. It works with all public and enterprise IM clients to
offer:
- "True Compliance" through the blocking of attempts to
circumvent an established compliance workflow and storage of
messages sequentially in tamper-resistant binary format
- Prevention of unauthorized IM and P2P connections
- Complete logging, auditing and archiving of IM
- Content scanning and keyword matching to prevent disclosure of
proprietary information
- Anti-virus and anti-spim controls
- Authentication of user identities and ability to block
high-risk features
- Non-stop protection with the latest protocol updates through
the FaceTime Instant Response Security Team (FIRST)
"FaceTime has more experience than any other vendor in providing
security and compliance to leading IM networks like IBM Lotus IM,"
said Christopher Dean, senior vice president of business
development at FaceTime Communications. "Lotus Advisor's
recognition of FaceTime for the second straight year illustrates
our steady leadership in this market." About Advisor
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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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