Press Release
FaceTime Announces Integration With Microsoft Office Live Communications Server
FaceTime's Real-time Communications Platform and Enterprise Suite of Instant
Messaging Security and Management Solutions to Complement and Extend Microsoft
Office Live Communications Server 2003
FOSTER CITY, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Furthering its leadership as the
premier provider of security, management and control solutions for instant
messaging (IM) and other forms of real-time communications in the enterprise,
FaceTime Communications today announced it is integrating its real-time
communications platform and enterprise suite of IM security and management
solutions with Microsoft(R) Office Live Communications Server 2003.
The release of Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003 strongly
validates FaceTime's early vision for the leveraging of IM and presence by
business-critical workflows. Microsoft's leading position in the enterprise
provides FaceTime with the opportunity to build IM and presence solutions for a
new host of customers that have been anticipating an extensible Microsoft
platform on which to deploy real-time communications. FaceTime provides
enterprise customers with the controls necessary to safely extend Live
Communications Server to other enterprise applications that depend on real-time
communications for universal reach. Organizations already leveraging FaceTime's
enterprise IM solutions can easily deploy Live Communications Server and
benefit from its powerful, enterprise-wide collaboration capabilities without
sacrificing connections made with business communities on other networks.
"Live Communications Server provides a solid foundation for partners to build
reliable, easy-to-deploy management solutions for IM, video and data
collaboration, and voice," said Ed Simnett, lead product manager for Live
Communications Server at Microsoft. "As a certified Microsoft partner, FaceTime
can integrate its suite of solutions into any line-of-business application
built on industry-standard protocols, enabling business to gain the full
benefit of real-time communications in the enterprise."
"We see the availability of Live Communications Server as a critical go-ahead
for integrating presence and instant messaging into a wide variety of important
business applications," said FaceTime Vice President of Products and Chief
Technology Officer Jonathan Christensen. "By combining our leadership and
technological innovation with that of Microsoft and other industry bellwethers,
FaceTime can continue to deliver best-of-breed solutions that enable the
real-time enterprise."
Forthcoming Live Communications Server supported releases of FaceTime's
market-leading IMAuditor solution for regulatory compliance, and IM Director
for the security, management and control of IM, will be available in Q4 2003.
FaceTime's enterprise IM management suite of solutions for regulatory
compliance logging and auditing, network security, presence-based portals, and
customer service can enable IT organizations to apply standard business and
network use policies to all diverse methods of real-time communications on any
public, private or enterprise network.
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.
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PR Contact:
Emily Chamberlin
650-762-2945
echamberlin@ar-edelman.com
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