BELMONT, Calif - June 7, 2011 - Actiance
(www.actiance.com), enablers of the safe and compliant use of unified
communications, collaboration and Web 2.0, today announced new
capabilities within its Socialite solution to proactively allow
organizations to approve content and changes made to employee
LinkedIn profiles The only vendor to provide Static Content
Pre-Approval Workflow, Actiance ensures all companies, including
financial services firms, can remain in compliance with
regulations, such as Financial Industry Regulatory
Advisory (FINRA) Regulatory Notice 10-06, which requires all
static content to be pre-approved prior to publishing.
Socialite provides granular
control for social networking sites, including the specific
ability to manage
access and content shared across over 160 features on Facebook,
LinkedIn and Twitter. Since the issuance of FINRA 10-06 and
subsequent draft guidelines from IIROC, there has been a
requirement to ensure that static content on social networks is pre
approved. As FINRA and IIROC registered firms move towards
departmentalizing the use of social media, it's imperative to the
growth of the business that this is automated.
"As social media has changed the way people interact and
communicate with each other, LinkedIn has become increasingly
popular with financial advisors and wealth managers who wish to
connect and communicate with prospects and current clients," said
Kailash
Ambwani, CEO at Actiance. "In FINRA-regulated firms, the
requirement to pre approve static content, such as the LinkedIn
profile has been an obstruction to its use. Until now, there was no
way to proactively monitor the profile, alert upon changes, or
ensure that changes received preapprovals. Our workflow
functionality opens up LinkedIn in a whole new way that truly
enables regulated individuals to leverage the social network while
remaining compliant. We're the only vendor that can provide this
capability due to our deep understanding of compliance
requirements, heritage in security and expertise in the intricacies
of social networks."
Socialite intercepts end-user edits of LinkedIn profiles and
automatically re-routes the changes to a compliance officer for
review. The reviewer is then able to identify the specific elements
of a LinkedIn profile that were changed and can either accept or
reject the edits as well as making comments. The profile owner is
able to review comments, make any other necessary changes and post
the approved content, all from within the Socialite application.
Socialite also provides firms with the ability to monitor, alert
and capture changes made off the corporate network - from a mobile
device for example. This deep protection ensures full compliance,
no matter how or where employees access LinkedIn.
Actiance customers include 9 out of the top 10 largest banks in
North America. For more information, please visit: http://www.actiance.com.
About Actiance
Actiance helps organizations manage, secure and ensure compliance
across unified communications, collaboration and Web 2.0
applications such as blogs, wikis and social networks. Actiance's
award-winning platforms are used by 9 of the top 10 US banks and
284 FINRA regulated firms globally.
The Actiance platform allows organizations to gain visibility of
applications in use, apply usage and content policies, ensure
compliance and gain valuable insights across the communications and
collaboration channels. Actiance supports all leading social
networks, unified communications and collaboration providers and IM
platforms, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, Yahoo!,
AOL, Skype, Cisco, Microsoft, Jive, and IBM.
Actiance is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more
information visit or call 888-349-3223.
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