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Press Release
Fulcrum Global Partners LLC Latest Financial Services Company to Select FaceTime
IMAuditor for Enterprise Instant Messaging Infrastructure
With More Than 100 Enterprise Customers, Instant Messaging Leader FaceTime
Communications Continues Rapid Customer Adoption
FOSTER CITY, Calif., Oct. 15, 2002 -- Continuing to build on its leadership position
as the premier provider of network-independent enterprise solutions for the
management and control of instant messaging (IM), FaceTime Communications today
announced that Fulcrum Global Partners LLC, a securities firm serving the
research and trade execution needs of hedge funds, asset managers and
institutions, has chosen FaceTime's
IMAuditor product to enable compliant
real-time communications for institutional traders.
IMAuditor gives Fulcrum
the ability to leverage the power of public instant messaging networks for
time-sensitive, business-critical business communications while ensuring
administrative controls are in place to comply with government regulations.
"Fulcrum views its choice of FaceTime's
IMAuditor as a significant competitive
advantage for our traders who can now use an already familiar IM tool to
conduct time-sensitive business transactions," said Roshan Shiwcharran, vice
president for networking and system administration, Fulcrum Global Partners
LLC. "It is vital that we plan for the future and partner with leaders who have
a proven track record supporting global enterprise customers. We researched the
market and found that all the leading financial services firms have adopted
FaceTime. Their impressive list of customers and long established partnerships
with all the leading IM network providers made selecting
IMAuditor an easy
choice for our IM management infrastructure solution."
"For over four years, FaceTime's IM network-independent server solutions for
customer service call centers, community marketplaces, and regulatory
compliance auditing have been helping enterprise customers leverage the power
of instant messaging for competitive advantage," said Glen Vondrick, FaceTime's
president and CEO. "We are pleased to have another financial services leader
choose FaceTime IMAuditor to control, manage, audit, and report on instant
messaging traffic in the enterprise. As the IM market continues to rapidly
evolve, FaceTime is proud to demonstrate our historical leadership by being the
first company to help enterprise customers such as Fulcrum successfully
integrate IM networks into their business process workflow."
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-add server solutions on
multiple IM network infrastructures for any business. The FaceTime
IMAuditor
server solution is installed behind corporate firewalls and features IT
administrative controls that extend the IM networks-both private and public-and
enables customers to control, access, manage and interoperate with all IM
networks with such features as capturing, recording, and reporting
conversations on multiple IM networks and devices, wired or wireless, for use
within the enterprise. FaceTime's IMAuditor provides IT professionals the
confidence and information security controls to manage public and private IM
networks in the enterprise. The FaceTime
IMAuditor includes an easy
installation and configuration process, no change in behavior for users of
existing instant messaging clients and buddy lists, Web-based reports, and
support for existing corporate proxy servers.
Fulcrum Global Partners LLC
Fulcrum Global Partners LLC is a full-service securities brokerage firm,
established in May 2001, focused primarily on the research and trade execution
needs of hedge funds and asset managers. The firm does not engage in the public
offering of securities or traditional investment banking activities. As a
result, the integrity of its research product is maintained and not tainted by
conflicts of interest. The firm provides superior execution and block trading
capabilities through a team of seasoned professional traders.
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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