BELMONT, Calif - January 28, 2009 - For the
fifth 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 2007 worldwide revenues for the IM
market (not including Web security revenues), up 29 percent over
the prior year according to IDC forecasts.
Since 2001, FaceTime has been the definitive choice for managing
IM and
unified communications in the enterprise Partnering with both
Microsoft (as a Gold Level Partner) and IBM Lotus, FaceTime
provides security and deep compliance for Microsoft Office
Communications Server and IBM Lotus Sametime as well as public IM
networks such as AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, GoogleTalk and MSN. With
FaceTime, organizations can ensure safe and productive use of VoIP,
Web conferencing, IM and other UC services by blocking in-bound
malware threats, preventing information leakage and maintaining
corporate and regulatory compliance
requirements
"FaceTime's track record of innovation over the years has
continually placed the company top of mind with large corporate IT
customers when it comes to IM
management and security," said Mark Levitt, program vice
president for Collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 Strategies for
IDC.
The IDC study is called "Worldwide Enterprise Instant
Messaging/Presence Applications and Management Products 2008-2012
Forecast and 2007 Vendor Shares: Finding a Way for IM and Presence
Through a Recession" (IDC #215450, December 2008). IDC estimates
that worldwide revenue generated by sales of enterprise instant
messaging (EIM) applications and management products grew to $384
million in 2007, with 2008 revenue predicted to be up 14.8% to $441
million.
In this report, Levitt observes that the near-term productivity
benefits of real-time IM and presence tools can enable workers,
"especially those on leaner teams expected to do more, to
communicate and locate with other people more quickly and
easily."
"We've seen a strong trend toward eliminating real estate, and
empowering telecommuters among the large corporate organizations we
work with," said Frank Cabri, vice president of marketing for
FaceTime Communications. "The powerful communication and presence
tools of enterprise IM and Unified Communications play a key role
in this transition, putting pressure on IT managers to maintain
control over critical corporate intellectual property as well as
ensure the security and integrity of the changing corporate
network."
About IMAuditor
FaceTime IMAuditor
is a full-featured instant messaging proxy that secures and manages
all public and enterprise instant messaging use over an
organization's network. IMAuditor, which resides on the local area
network, maintains an integrated trust relationship with FaceTime's
secure Web gateway appliance, the
Unified Security Gateway (USG). Working together IMAuditor and
USG deliver complete end-to-end security, management and compliance
for real-time communications in the enterprise, ensuring that
corporate data is protected both from outside threats such as
spyware, viruses and worms, as well as from intentional or
deliberate information leakage from within the company.
In enterprise environments today, a mixture of
employee-initiated applications such as public IM and Web 2.0
resources are being utilized alongside corporate sanctioned UC
suites that integrate presence, IM, Web conferencing and VoIP. The
combination of evasive, consumer applications and enterprise-class
UC platforms is leading to an increasingly heterogeneous and
complex environment that multiplies the security, management and
compliance challenges faced by IT, requiring a common policy and
reporting framework to simplify administration.
FaceTime's IMAuditor applies policies consistently across both
consumer and enterprise applications to effectively manage this
heterogeneous environment, scanning and applying established
policies to message content plus all popular file types. These
polices can be set to analyze and detect sensitive or confidential
information in both messages and file attachments, can prevent
transmission of the information, and will warn the user about
established company policy regarding the sharing of corporate
intellectual property, for example. IMAuditor integrates with
existing enterprise infrastructure including active directory,
databases, archiving systems and more.
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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