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Press Release
FaceTime Announces Integration of IM Presence Manager with BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1
FaceTime IM Presence Manager Delivers Aggregated Instant Messaging Network Presence to BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1
FOSTER CITY, Calif. - Aug. 4, 2003 -- Furthering its leadership as the premier provider of security, management and control solutions for instant messaging and other forms of real-time communications in the enterprise, FaceTime Communications today announced an alliance with BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) in which FaceTime will develop portlets that integrate the recently announced IM Presence Manager to BEA WebLogic Portalä 8.1 and BEA WebLogic Platform™ 8.1. The new alliance between FaceTime and BEA supports the recent availability of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, a unified architecture that provides superior business integration through the convergence of application development and integration.
FaceTime provides its customers with a comprehensive approach to the centralized security, management and control of real-time communications in the enterprise. FaceTime's portlet-level integration with BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 can enable customers to leverage intranets and extranets for real-time presence awareness across multiple instant messaging networks, utilizing instant messaging within the context of common application environments. Embedding real-time presence awareness into business process workflows can provide better customer experience management, greater workforce productivity and partner collaboration, and lowered operational costs.
"With this alliance, FaceTime demonstrates its continued commitment to fulfilling the demands of customers looking to quickly benefit from the competitive advantages of the 'real-time enterprise' by combining its leadership and technological innovation with that of other industry pioneers, such as BEA," said FaceTime Vice President of Products and Chief Technology Officer Jonathan Christensen. "BEA WebLogic provides customers a unified, simplified and extensible platform that's designed to be easier to use than alternatives. With this foundation, BEA and FaceTime can enable customers to work faster and better, collaborating with customers, partners and employees in shared environments regardless of network or geographical location for maximum return on investments."
With the FaceTime-enabled presence aggregation capabilities integrated with BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 and BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, users can detect availability on an individual or group basis and engage in real-time communication via instant messaging over multiple enterprise and public IM networks, all within the shared application or process at hand.
"The speed of business today requires employees to collaborate within processes and workflows instead of after the fact," said Ken Goldberg, senior director, market development, BEA Systems. "BEA's alliance with FaceTime makes it possible to more easily develop and deliver presence-enabled business applications via a collaborative portal to enhance customer experience management, workforce productivity and partner collaboration."
FaceTime IM Presence Manager can enable a user's online identity to be embedded in enterprise workflow applications such as Web-based portals. It is designed to provide immediate presence information and availability management for registered users, presence aggregation for communities of related users, and presence-based decision making for business process workflows such as connecting buyers and sellers. By providing instant access to knowledge workers, a business utilizes the ability to sense events earlier and respond faster for more efficient decision making. Speed in communications results in increased revenues, greater productivity, and competitive advantage. IM Presence Manager builds on FaceTime IM Director to provide enterprise-class scalability and reliability.
FaceTime's enterprise IM management suite of solutions can enable IT organizations to apply standard business use policies to all diverse methods of real-time communications on any public, private or enterprise network, including centralized IT management, control, security, and the ability to extend presence into business process workflow applications.
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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