FOSTER CITY, CALIF. - August 27, 2007 - For the
fourth consecutive year, leading IT market research and advisory
firm IDC has named FaceTime Communications the market share leader
among instant messaging management vendors. The ranking is based on
IDC's estimate of FaceTime's worldwide revenues for the IM market
(not including Web security revenues), up 28 percent in 2006 from
2005.
FaceTime enables the safe and productive use of greynets
including public and enterprise instant messaging applications such
as Microsoft Live Communications Server and IBM Sametime, and other
real-time communications applications. FaceTime solutions allow
organizations to block in-bound malware threats, prevent
information leakage and maintain corporate, e-discovery and
regulatory compliance requirements while realizing the productivity
and cost saving benefits of real-time communications.
"FaceTime's continued performance and growth in the EIM
management market reflects the company's alignment with current EIM
management market opportunities," said Mark Levitt, program vice
president for Collaborative Computing and the Enterprise Workplace
for IDC.
The IDC study is called "Worldwide Enterprise Instant Messaging
Applications and Management Products 2006 Vendor Shares: IM and
Presence Are Ready for Broader Collaboration" (IDC #208000, August
2007). In this study, IDC estimates that worldwide revenue
generated by sales of enterprise instant messaging (EIM)
applications and management products grew to $325 million in
2006.
"More organizations are deploying enterprise IM to increase
employee collaboration and productivity. This brings an
increasingly heterogeneous environment where public IM and
enterprise IM coexist," said Kailash Ambwani, president and CEO of
FaceTime Communications. "Our customers want a single solution to
secure and manage all their real-time communications, using an
architecture that can extend to become the platform for broader
enterprise-wide unified communications."
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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