FOSTER CITY, CALIF - June 1, 2005 - FaceTime
Communications, the leading provider of solutions that secure the
uncontrolled use of instant messaging (IM), peer-to-peer (P2P) and
spyware applications, today announced it has delivered its
market-leading IMAuditor™ IM security and control solution to FEMSA
Comercio, the owner of OXXO, Mexico's largest convenient store
chain. OXXO is the subsidiary of the FEMSA corporation, the largest
beverage company in Latin America. Secured through FaceTime's
exclusive partnership with Migesa, the transaction continues
FaceTime's momentum in penetrating the Latin America market and
demonstrates the increasing success of its channel program. FEMSA
controls nearly half of Mexico's convenient store market share
through OXXO. The FEMSA subsidiary has approximately 6,000
employees and operates over 3,000 OXXO convenient stores and four
distribution centers. Although FEMSA is based outside the United
States, the company and its subsidiaries are under the same
pressure to adhere to compliance regulations from Sarbanes-Oxley
and the SEC that American companies face today. FEMSA trades on the
New York Stock Exchange through American Depositary Receipts
(ADRs), which are certificates issued by a U.S.-based bank that
enable non-U.S. Corporations to trade on U.S. exchanges. More than
250 employees in dozens of FEMSA branch offices use the publicly
available MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger IM applications to
communicate with each other, sales persons and service providers in
real-time. The company recognized that unrecorded and unmonitored
IM communications could leave them vulnerable to legal risks if the
company's records were subpoenaed in a lawsuit, audit or similar
investigation. "We've found IM to be a very helpful communications
tool, but as we started to open its use on the company, our network
service level started to suffer, and became very unpredictable,"
said Ruben D. Treviño, CIO at FEMSA Comercio. In addition to
recording these conversations for compliance purposes, the company
wanted to fully control user-behavior to block unnecessary or
unproductive chatting, without preventing parties that actually
needed the real-time interaction of IM for their day-to-day work
activities. After evaluating several solutions, FEMSA determined
that FaceTime's IMAuditor's message archiving and auditing
capabilities best met their stringent compliance and security
needs. "We faced the decision of scaling back on IM's use, or to
get a better control of it, and we selected FaceTime's solution as
being the most comprehensive tool for this kind of resource
administration," Treviño said. "Our first results tell us that
we'll be able to provide this innovative service, without
compromising our mission critical resources." "Companies in Latin
America are realizing that IM communication is occurring within
their networks whether they like it or not," said Guillermo Dow,
Commercial Vice President at Migesa. "We expect this transaction
with FEMSA to be the first of many sales of FaceTime's IM
management solutions in this region." With its industry-unique
'True Compliance' functionality, IMAuditor is the only IM
management solution that captures messages in binary form - e.g.
bolded words, flashing text, etc. - rather than storing them in
plain text, illustrating the true context of each message. It is
also the only product that includes an anti-tampering capability
for all stored IM messages. "FEMSA Comercio's purchase of IMAuditor
demonstrates the demand FaceTime is seeing all over the world for
secure, regulatory compliant IM," said Christopher S. Dean, Senior
Vice President of Business Development at FaceTime. "Many
international companies must adhere to a myriad of industry and
government regulations, including those set by U.S. regulating
agencies. It's a daunting task but one that FaceTime has been
helping customers accomplish longer and better than anyone else."
About FEMSA Comercio
FEMSA is an integrated drink company with greater sales in Latin
America. Their main businesses units are: Coca-Cola FEMSA, the
distributor of greater Coca-Cola products in the region; FEMSA
Beer, the second largest brewing company in Mexico and an important
exporter of beer to the United States and other countries around
the world; and OXXO handling more than 3,400 establishments at the
national level.
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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