FOSTER CITY, CALIF. - July 31, 2007 - FaceTime Communications,
the leading provider of solutions for securing and managing IM, P2P
and Web-based greynets, today announced support for Microsoft
Office Communications Server 2007 with its IMAuditor for OCS.
FaceTime is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and its IMAuditor
products have provided security, management and compliance for
Microsoft customers since Live Communications Server was introduced
in 2003. A 30-day trial of IMA for OCS is available immediately,
allowing customers to evaluate IMA for OCS in conjunction with
their OCS 2007 evaluations.
As real-time collaborative communications applications such as
instant messaging, Web conferencing and voice over IP become
integral to the way employees work today, large enterprises are
looking to unified communications platforms such as Microsoft's OCS
to provide a cohesive approach that can be managed, monitored and
secured.
"Instant messaging systems have moved from the fringe to become a
key part of an enterprise's collaboration infrastructure and are
increasingly displacing existing forms of communications from ad
hoc telephone calls and emails to pre-planned meetings and video
conferences," said David Mario Smith, research analyst at Gartner.
"Although consumer IM use has been predominant in business, we
expect penetration levels for enterprise grade IM to rise from
around 25 percent currently to nearly 100 percent by the end of the
decade.* Enterprise IM Connections with external partners or
customers via federation to public service IM should be protected
by the use of IM hygiene or security services."
FaceTime's security and management solutions provide IT management
with the controls to protect heterogeneous IM environments
consisting of public and enterprise IM against inbound malware,
potential information leakage, and to monitor, archive and easily
retrieve electronically stored information to meet federal and
regulatory compliance rules, as well as to achieve responsible
corporate governance.
"A real-time collaboration environment already exists in many
organizations, with unsanctioned, consumer-based applications and
public IM clients providing the functionality for users," said
Frank Cabri, vice president of marketing and product management for
FaceTime Communications. "With the rapid adoption of applications
such as Office Communications Server, the environment has become
increasingly heterogeneous requiring IT to be able to manage and
control all real-time communications applications to enforce policy
and mitigate security risks."
Through FaceTime's continued support of both Live Communications
Server and the new Office Communications Server 2007, enterprise
organizations can be assured of complete security and management of
all of their real-time communications, including instant messages
delivered over federated public instant messaging clients. FaceTime
offers a highly scalable, API-based architecture that is integrated
with the OCS server to insure that, even in the event of a server
failure, policies are enforced and messages continue to be archived
for compliance and audit purposes.
Key Capabilities of IMAuditor for OCS 2007:
* Centralized policy management and control - provides
organizations a single solution for setting and enforcing policy
for all elements of OCS and public IM in use in the
enterprise
* Content hygiene and security - enables virus scanning of file
attachments, worm blocking, spIM protection and keyword content
filtering for both OCS-generated as well as federated public
instant messaging
* Regulatory compliance archiving and workflow - 100 percent
guaranteed logging of all OCS and public instant messaging
communications including capture and archival of file attachments,
tamper resistant storage of messages, and robust and easy-to-use
review and audit capabilities
* Easy administration and management - browser based management
interface for policy configuration, compliance workflow and message
retrieval for e-discovery
Product Availability
The new IMAuditor for OCS will be available in 30 days from
FaceTime Communications and authorized distributors and partners
worldwide. For pricing and additional information or to get a free
evaluation copy, call 1-888-349-3223 or visit www.facetime.com
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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