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Press Release
Dominion Energy Clearinghouse Selects FaceTime for Instant Messaging Use by Energy Traders
Energy Company Signals Market Expansion of FaceTime's
IMAuditor for Management
and Control of IM in the Enterprise
FOSTER CITY, Calif., April 22, 2002 -- FaceTime Communications, furthering its
leadership as the premier provider of network-independent instant messaging
(IM) applications for business, today announced that Dominion Energy
Clearinghouse, the marketing and trading arm of one of the nation's largest
producers of energy, has chosen FaceTime's
IMAuditor product for real-time
communication by its energy traders.
IMAuditor gives Dominion Energy
Clearinghouse the ability to leverage the power of the public instant messaging
network from America Online (AOL) for time-sensitive business communications,
while ensuring administrative controls are in place. As a result, Dominion
Energy Clearinghouse can closely manage IM communication by its traders. This
new customer win marks the expansion of FaceTime's
IMAuditor into the energy
market.
"Our energy traders depend on IM as a critical tool to conduct time-sensitive
business communications," said David Jewett, senior systems architect for
Dominion Energy Clearinghouse. "IMAuditor satisfies all of our requirements
and we had the product tested, evaluated, configured and put into production in
record time."
"We are excited to have Dominion Energy Clearinghouse as our first energy
trading customer," said Glen Vondrick, FaceTime's President and CEO. "IMAuditor's initial success with financial traders in regulatory markets is
spreading to all forms of trading environments.
IMAuditor leverages any IM
network, without any change of client software, while still giving IT
management proper control over its use. Dominion Energy Clearinghouse's
decision to partner with FaceTime further demonstrates that FaceTime is the
standard for auditing instant messaging in multiple markets."
FaceTime's unique technology advantage, IM expertise, and ability to provide
customers with authorized application access and integration to any network,
enables the company to deliver practical, value-added solutions on multiple IM
network infrastructures for any business. FaceTime's IM network partnerships
provide IT professionals the confidence and security they need to allow access
to the public IM networks via IMAuditor.
The FaceTime IMAuditor enables IT departments to install a back-end software
server behind their Internet firewall in order to manage and monitor instant
messaging communication across any IM network.
IMAuditor provides the
following capabilities:
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IM Compliance Supervision - the ability to monitor
IM message content for words or phrases restricted by employee roles.
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IM Access Control - the ability to allow or
disallow certain employees to use IM, and to enforce the use of only business
professional IM screen names.
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IM Identity Management - the ability to map IM
screen names with corporate employee Ids.
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IM Export - the ability to export complete IM
conversations as e-mails to any corporate e-mail system, e-mail compliance
systems, or storage systems.
The FaceTime IMAuditor includes an easy installation and configuration
process, no change in behavior for users of instant messaging clients,
Web-based reports, and support for existing corporate proxy servers.
About Dominion Energy Clearinghouse
The Dominion Energy Clearinghouse, headquartered in Richmond, buys and sells
electricity, natural gas, fuel oil, coal and emission allowances, and provides
a full range of asset management services. It also provides customer service
support, transportation, capacity, storage and balancing service along
interstate pipelines. The Dominion Energy Clearinghouse is part of Dominion,
one of the nation's largest producers of energy with a production capability of
more than 3 trillion Btu of energy per day. For more information about Dominion
and the Dominion Energy Clearinghouse, visit the company's Web site at
www.dom.com.
About FaceTime Communications
Founded in 1998, FaceTime Communications is the leading provider of security solutions for the management and
control of greynet applications such as adware/spyware, instant messaging, webmail, P2P file sharing, web
conferencing and instant voice. FaceTime delivers the industry's first IMPact Index, which assesses "point-in-time"
risks posed by viruses, worms and other malware propagating through greynet applications. FaceTime's award-winning
solutions are used by over 600 customers, among them seven of the eight largest U.S. financial institutions.
FaceTime supports or has strategic partnerships with all leading public and private IM network providers, including
AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, IBM, Bloomberg, Jabber and Reuters.
FaceTime is headquartered in Foster City, California. For more information visit http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-FACE.
PR Contact:
Emily Chamberlin
650-762-2945
echamberlin@ar-edelman.com
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