FOSTER CITY, CALIF. - October 18, 2006 - A new
study from leading IT market research and advisory firm IDC has
named FaceTime Communications the market share leader among instant
messaging management vendors for the third consecutive year based
on worldwide revenues in 2005 - up 51 percent from the previous
year. FaceTime enables the safe and productive use of greynets
including instant messaging and other real-time communications
applications. FaceTime solutions allow organizations to block
in-bound malware threats, prevent information leakage and maintain
corporate and regulatory compliance requirements while realizing
the productivity and cost saving benefits of real-time
communications. The IDC study, issued this month, is called
"Worldwide Enterprise Instant Messaging Applications and Management
Products 2006-2010 Forecast and 2005 Vendor Shares: IM Is on Its
Way into the Workplace" (IDC #203848, October 2006). In this study,
IDC forecasts that the number of enterprise instant messaging
application seats will more than triple from just over 50 million
in 2006 to more than 180 million in 2010. "This study presents our
view of the relative market positioning of the top EIM management
product vendors based on key technology, support and business
metrics," said Mark Levitt, program VP for Collaborative Computing
and the Enterprise Workplace. "FaceTime's performance in these
areas places the company firmly in a leadership position for its
alignment with current market opportunities and its ability to gain
share in the future in this fast-growing market." In addition to
its No. 1 market share ranking for the third consecutive year, IDC
ranked FaceTime No. 1 in EIM product support and alliances.
FaceTime partners with all leading EIM vendors and supports a broad
base of enterprise instant messaging applications including
Microsoft's Live Communications Server 2005, IBM® Lotus® Sametime®
7.5 and Jabber XCP 5.1. FaceTime's leadership position on the IDC
Leadership Grid is due to its strong performance on all 11
attributes measured in the IDC report: ability to set industry
standards, market share, potential for market dominance, potential
for place or show, product breadth and service, EIM product
support/alliances, application development/customization, global
presence, management/protection beyond IM, flexible deployment and
pricing options and customers outside of core verticals. "FaceTime
has the strongest commitment to the IM management market, with more
than two times the engineering, research, and support resources as
other dedicated IM management vendors," said Kailash Ambwani,
president and CEO of FaceTime Communications. "This investment
enables FaceTime to continually anticipate and exceed the
expectations of our customers, and to extend our market leadership
as instant messaging becomes as commonplace in organizations as
e-mail." About FaceTime Enterprise Edition
FaceTime Enterprise Edition is used by the world's largest
organizations to manage and secure IM, P2P, Skype, web conferencing
and other greynet applications. It provides user policy management,
message hygiene, day zero worm protection, comprehensive
compliance, and protection against user circumvention. It also
detects and prevents spyware and other malware infections at the
Internet gateway - before it impacts the business. Enterprise
Edition combines FaceTime's IMAuditor™ in the LAN with Real-Time
Guardian™ at the gateway for a complete, end-to-end security,
management and compliance solution. It supports all public and
enterprise IM applications. FaceTime IMAuditor is a full-featured
IM proxy that secures and manages all public and enterprise IM use
over an organization's network. IMAuditor, which resides on the
LAN, maintains an integrated trust relationship with FaceTime's
perimeter product, Real-Time Guardian (RTGuardian).
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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