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Press Release
FaceTime Announces Latest Additions to Strategic Partner Program with Leading Email Compliance Vendors
AXS-One, Orchestria, Singlecast and ZANTAZ Partner with FaceTime to Deliver Wide Selection of Messaging Compliance Solutions
INBOX: The Email Event, San Jose, Calif. - June 2, 2004 - FaceTime Communications, the largest provider of solutions that secure, manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and other forms of real-time communications in the enterprise, today announced that it has extended the email management component of the FaceTime Partner Program to include AXS-One's enterprise compliance platform solutions; Orchestria's Active Policy Management Solution; Singlecast's compliance management solutions; and ZANTAZ's compliance, electronic discovery and email storage management solutions. Together, FaceTime's IM security and compliance solutions are integrated and field-tested with the offerings of these and other existing email management partners-including EMC/Centera, Entelagent, iLumin, Iron Mountain, KVS, and Tumbleweed - to allow customers to choose a solution that best meets their needs for security and regulatory compliance of all electronic messaging in the enterprise.
The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) recently released, in partnership with the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA), a survey in which 47% of the participants admitted their companies did not retain electronic communications such as email and IM in order to meet such government and industry regulations as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in addition to those handed down by the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), New York Stock Exchange and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). FaceTime's email management partnerships provide customers with the ability to quickly align their electronic messaging with the latest regulations.
"Despite statements from the SEC, NASD, NYSE and other regulatory bodies, most businesses have not yet installed solutions designed to properly supervise and archive email and instant messaging," said FaceTime Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Christopher S. Dean. "FaceTime continues its commitment to teaming with the world's most innovative technology leaders to make it easy for today's enterprises to engage in the exchange of electronic communications in a manner that is secure and compliant with the latest government regulations."
"We are pleased to formalize our business relationship with FaceTime, who we consider a leading provider of IM security and management solutions," stated Peter Mojica, vice president, product marketing and management for AXS-One. "AXS-One's Compliance Platform and FaceTime's IM security and compliance solutions are quite complementary, and through this partnership, we'll be able to work closer together to help our mutual customers, particularly in the financial services industry, meet their mounting IM and email archive challenges."
"The array of IM protocols managed by FaceTime, combined with the real-time prevention capability of our Active Policy Management (APM) solution is compelling to any corporation that needs to gain real-time visibility and control of all electronic communications," said Pete Malcolm, CEO and founder, Orchestria. "APM already offers unprecedented visibility of unstructured communications, including email, the Web and some IM protocols. This partnership extends the IM functionality of our product to cover new protocols including certain public, private, enterprise and mobile networks."
"Instant messaging is quickly becoming a critical part of business workflow," said Singlecast President Andrew Joiner. "Companies realize that IM, in addition to email, is a medium by which sensitive, potentially damaging information can be exchanged among employees, partners or customers in real-time. This partnership with FaceTime seamlessly extends our industry leading surveillance and monitoring capabilities so that compliance professionals can enforce consistent e-communication policies and review interactions within the communication channels used by employees."
"As the leading provider of e-mail management solutions for compliance, electronic discovery and storage management, ZANTAZ solutions help clients protect their intellectual property, efficiently comply with industry regulations, respond to urgent litigation, and reduce email server load," said Kirk Deininger, VP of business development for ZANTAZ. "Through partners such as FaceTime, our extensive e-communications management expertise extends to the IM arena. ZANTAZ delivers customer-driven solutions to a broad set of vertical markets. These solutions enable companies to better manage business risk, enhance user access to information and strengthen legal and regulatory compliance."
FaceTime's comprehensive ecosystem of partners provides customers with the most complete, seamlessly integrated solutions available for the security, management and control of real-time messaging in the enterprise. For more information about the FaceTime Partner Program, visit http://www.facetime.com/partners/strategic.aspx.
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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