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Press Release
SJ Technologies and FaceTime Communications Form Alliance to Provide Enterprise IM Compliance for Financial and Healthcare Markets
FOSTER CITY, Calif., April 22, 2003 -- FaceTime Communications, the premier provider of security and management solutions for instant messaging (IM) in the enterprise, and SJ Technologies (SJT), a leader in enterprise data integration and compliance solutions, today announced a unique strategic alliance that offers fully integrated IM solutions to clients, specifically financial organizations that are regulated by SEC rules 17a-3 and 17a-4 and NASD 3110 and 3010, and Healthcare providers governed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). This partnership, coupled with SJT and FaceTime's existing strategic partnership with LEGATO Systems, Inc., the pre-eminent developer of worldwide Email compliance solutions, provides clients with a total solution for the security, management and control of all IM and Email communications in the enterprise.
It is widely held by industry analysts that IM will surpass Email as the preferred method of interpersonal messaging in the enterprise by 2006. Businesses using this technology for internal and external communications must ensure that their network and information security risks are properly managed. FaceTime's award-winning
IMAuditor Enterprise(TM) solution is uniquely positioned to meet the growing needs of securing and managing IM in the enterprise.
IMAuditor Enterprise is an application that sits behind a company's corporate firewall and enables IT organizations to apply standard business use policies to all IM communications through detection, controls and administration. These policies help manage the risk associated with external employee communications and greatly reduce the risk of inadvertent intellectual property leaks outside the company while providing government regulated firms with regulatory compliance workflow features.
SJT's robust and compliant enterprise solutions are technologically advanced and procedurally coordinated with each client's enterprise IM, Email and HIPAA applications needs. Custom solutions provide integrated communications with seamless technology architecture, including FaceTime's
IMAuditor Enterprise and LEGATO EmailXtender(R), the industry leading, policy-based system that automatically collects, organizes, retains and retrieves Email messages/attachments. Each customized solution reduces information security risks by extending complete and centralized management, control, logging and archiving capabilities to these business-critical platforms.
The development offerings by SJT bring highly specialized design and deployment of IM and Email, in accordance with regulatory agencies including the SEC, NASD and HIPAA. Clients receive support throughout the development process, enabling them to accurately review and define their business rules and objectives. This process drives the actual guidelines for converting the unique business rules into FaceTime's
IMAuditor Enterprise and LEGATO EmailXtender. SJT consults each client on the appropriate path to take, engineers the system, and provides the technology for achievement.
"SJT looks forward to developing this unique strategic alliance with FaceTime in many diverse markets," states Ian Singer, President and CEO of SJ Technologies. "The robust and scalable FaceTime technology, in combination with LEGATO's EmailXtender and EmailXaminer(TM) solutions, provides the broadest enterprise messaging platform in the industry."
"We are excited that SJT has chosen FaceTime as their instant messaging partner," said Sherry Walden, VP Strategic Accounts and Alliances, FaceTime. "SJT's experience implementing LEGATO's EmailXtender for Healthcare and other government regulated industries coupled with FaceTime's leadership delivering enterprise instant messaging solutions, offers clients a convenient package for the security, management and control of all Email and IM communications in the enterprise."
About SJ Technologies
Headquartered in Phoenix, AZ with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., and Albuquerque, SJ Technologies provides enterprise data integration and compliance solutions, customized where appropriate, to financial, manufacturing, government, education and healthcare clients worldwide. SJT utilizes strategic partnerships to offer unified solutions that feature leading-edge technologies from the world's top software providers. For more information, call (877) 675-0080, email info@sjtechnologies.com, or visit us at http://www.sjtechnologies.com.
About FaceTime Communications
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of instant
messaging, Web usage and Unified Communications platforms. Ranked number one by
IDC for four consecutive years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by
more than 900 customers – including nine of the 10 largest U.S. banks – for
security, management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime
supports or has strategic partnerships with all leading public and enterprise
IM network providers, including AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Skype, IBM,
Reuters and Jabber.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit
http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-FACE.
The FaceForward blog, at http://blog.facetime.com,
offers thoughts and opinions about the changing nature of Internet communications.
PR Contact:
Emily Chamberlin
650-762-2945
echamberlin@ar-edelman.com
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