FOSTER CITY, CALIF - October 5, 2005 - FaceTime
Communications was recognized as a premiere supplier of enterprise
instant messaging management (EIM) technology for the full year of
2004, according to the leading IT market research and advisory
firm, IDC. In the report entitled "Worldwide Enterprise Instant
Messaging Applications 2005-2009 Forecast and 2004 Vendor Shares ",
IDC evaluated enterprise instant messaging (EIM) products and EIM
management products on their market opportunity alignment and
ability to gain share. The report identified FaceTime, who for the
second year in a row, ranked as an EIM management leader in terms
of "market opportunity alignment" and placed the company squarely
in the leadership quadrant within the IDC Leadership Grid. IDC's
assessment also determined that FaceTime led the competition in the
"depth in security", "product and service breadth" and "potential
for market dominance" categories.
"With over 12 billion instant messages being sent across worldwide
consumer and business networks each day in 2005, EIM management and
security products are becoming critical components within today's
enterprise networks, addressing security, compliance, and
management needs" said Robert P. Mahowald, IDC program director,
Collaborative Computing. "Our analysis of 12 key success factors in
the EIM market has identified FaceTime as having significant
alignment with market opportunity, and points to the company's very
promising future."
The IDC Leadership Grid depicts leadership potential by assessing
specific factors such as market share, security expertise and
products and services. In 2004, FaceTime outscored its nearest
competitor in key categories that IDC has identified for successful
vendors including:
- Ability to set industry standards
- Potential for market dominance
- Product and service breadth
- Management/protection beyond IM
- Depth in security
- Flexible deployment and pricing options
More than 28 million business users worldwide are sending nearly
1 billion messages each day this year alone. The IDC report
forecasted 60 million enterprise instant messaging seats in 2006,
and more than 140 million in 2009. In compliance-driven industries
like financial services, healthcare and government, IM is a
critical requirement, but new growth is also being driven from
non-regulated industries as users adopt public and enterprise IM to
collaborate in real-time. This is causing many companies to take a
closer look at how IM is being used as a business communications
tool and what measures to take to secure and regulate it.
IM, P2P and spyware applications are part of a category of
networked applications that FaceTime calls 'greynets.' Greynets are
network-enabled applications that are installed on an end user's
system without permission from IT and are highly evasive at the
network level.
"FaceTime provides customers the most comprehensive solution for
the end-to-end security, management and compliance of greynet
applications. Our customers include Fortune 2000 companies and
leading organizations in industries such as financial services,
healthcare, technology and government," said Kailash Ambwani,
president and CEO, FaceTime Communications. "Our position in IDC's
Leadership Grid represents our commitment to provide our customers
with the best solutions to maximize the use of IM as a productivity
tool while ensuring networks are protected and compliance policies
are met."
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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