Press Release
FaceTime to Provide New Bloomberg IM Service With Regulatory Compliance
Reporting Capabilities
Instant Messaging Leader Augments
'Instant Bloomberg' with
Market-LeadingvIMAuditor
FOSTER CITY, Calif., Sept. 9, 2003 -- 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 working with Bloomberg L.P. to extend its
market-leading IMAuditor regulatory compliance solution to support the new
Instant Bloomberg messaging network. Driven by new interpretations of
electronic communications regulations, FaceTime and Bloomberg as respected
leaders in their fields have brought their technologies together to satisfy the
needs of the worldwide financial services industry.
Instant Bloomberg, a new integrated feature of Bloomberg Professional(R), is a
presence-based instant messaging network tightly integrated with Bloomberg's
content, data, and information services.
"This announcement demonstrates FaceTime and Bloomberg's continued commitment
to satisfying the comprehensive messaging and information needs of the
worldwide financial services community," said FaceTime CEO Glen D. Vondrick.
"By integrating the regulatory compliance capabilities of
IMAuditor with the
real-time communication capabilities of Instant Bloomberg, we can deliver to
Bloomberg's large installed base of financial services professionals a safe and
manageable solution in a manner that is compliant with SEC, NYSE and NASD
regulations for capturing, archiving, and reporting on electronic
communications."
FaceTime provides its customers with a comprehensive approach to the
centralized security, management and control of real-time communications in the
enterprise.
The company's enterprise IM management suite of security and management
solutions enables IT organizations to apply standard business 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 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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