BELMONT, Calif - February 18, 2009 - FaceTime Communications,
the leading provider of solutions to secure and manage Web and
unified communications in the enterprise, today announced a new
channel program to boost Web security sales, offering its FaceTime
Stimulus Package to help kick start channel sales with its Unified
Security Gateway Web security appliance, as well as contribute to
the local retail economy by offering spiff rewards to channel sales
representatives.
FaceTime's Channel Stimulus Package program offers
* Sustainable margins
* Co-funded marketing
* Free evaluation equipment
* Leads, deal registration and opportunity support
FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway (USG) is a secure Web gateway
appliance purpose-built for the new Internet. USG 2.0 provides a
single point of control for managing Web access, preventing
malware, controlling Web 2.0 applications and managing information
leakage in corporate networks. Unique to this new version, IT
managers can detect and control 1,400 Web 2.0 and real-time
applications with the same granular policies they have come to
expect from dedicated URL filtering solutions.
"FaceTime recognizes that in these tough economic times, the
channel can easily be squeezed out by vendors looking to maximize
their profits, and by the end user looking to maximize their
budget" said Sarah Carter of the Channels team for FaceTime
Communications. "With the FaceTime Stimulus Package, combined with
our Forget the Fees program, we're providing a great incentive to
IT departments to streamline their budgets, as well as empowering
the channel to create opportunities that we'll reward them for.
This program provides tremendous value by offering malware
prevention and application control in addition to URL filtering,
for less than the cost of URL filtering alone."
The FaceTime Stimulus Package is built around FaceTime's current
Forget the Fees program to eliminate initial URL filtering fees on
new purchases of its Unified Security Gateway (USG) appliance. With
this program, a 1,000-seat organization can save up to $35,000 over
a two year contract period based on typical industry pricing, while
deploying a more complete secure Web gateway solution that not only
monitors Web browsing traffic but also controls Web 2.0
applications, blocks malware at the gateway and enables the safe
and productive use of real time use of the Internet - from social
networks to instant messaging.
The Forget the Fees program is available on new contracts signed
before April 30, 2009. Channel Partners should contact FaceTime at
888-349-FACE or register for the new Forget the Fees Channel
Program.
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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