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Press Release
Communicator Inc Partners with FaceTime Communications
FaceTime's Solutions for Managing Real-Time Messages Provide Communicator Hub
Connex Customers Enhanced Options for Meeting Regulatory Compliance
Requirements
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Nov. 18, 2003 - To help organizations meet the increasing
number of regulatory compliance provisions governing electronic communications,
Communicator Inc has signed a preferred partnership agreement with FaceTime
Communications. The partnership provides companies that use Hub Connex(SM),
Communicator's secure business connectivity suite, enhanced options for
managing, storing and auditing electronic messages.
This new partnership ensures seamless integration between FaceTime
Communications' leading IM management suite, including
IMAuditor and IM
Director, and two modules of Hub Connex, Forums, which provide secure,
multi-participant discussions, and Hub IM, Communicator Inc's enterprise
instant messaging service currently used by more than 80,000 people at 2,000
companies worldwide.
Garban Intercapital, a customer of Communicator Inc's and FaceTime
Communications' integrated solution, provides a specialist intermediary broking
service to commercial banks, investment banks and other liquidity providers in
the wholesale financial markets. Marie Patton, vice president at Garban, noted,
"It's important for Garban Intercapital to support rapid communication and
collaboration between our team and customers, as well as to archive
communications for policy reasons. The integrated solution we now have in place
from Communicator and FaceTime achieves these goals."
FaceTime's IMAuditor enhances IT and compliance departments' visibility into
the use of real-time messaging within organizations and gives customers the
ability to record, store and supervise electronic communications generated on
heterogeneous systems. These capabilities extend Hub Connex's built-in identity
management, community controls, archiving and reporting tools that include
message capture, logging and delivery of archives. Hub Connex can be tailored
to the needs of the customer and enhanced through products and services from
Communicator's partners to help organizations adhere to the many new regulatory
compliance requirements and procedures governing electronic communications.
"Communicator and FaceTime already share a number of existing and prospective
customers, many of whom have integrated our products to successfully meet their
needs," said FaceTime's vice president of products and chief technology
officer, Jonathan Christensen. "Deployed by hundreds of financial services
firms, FaceTime's IMAuditor is now being combined with Communicator's Hub
Connex to meet rising demand for a comprehensive solution with proven
reliability and regulatory compliance in the field."
"Compliance is a critical issue for companies in regulated industries such as
financial services and the public sector," said Gary Reifman, product manager
for Messaging Services at Communicator Inc. "Our goal is to provide Hub Connex
customers an array of options for managing their electronic messages. With the
addition of FaceTime to our partnership program, Communicator delivers a
comprehensive solution that meets regulatory compliance requirements for the
protection and management of electronic information and communications."
Hub Connex is a secure business connectivity suite that connects the right
people to the right information in real-time. Hub Connex is built on an open,
modular platform integrating content distribution, alerting, discussion forums,
standards-based enterprise instant messaging and presence, and identity-based
directory services. By using combinations of these capabilities for real-time
information sharing and collaboration, organizations make decisions more
quickly and intelligently, and build closer relationships with customers,
partners and colleagues across locations. For more information about Hub
Connex, visit www.hubconnex.com.
About Communicator Inc
Communicator Inc provides a suite of secure software tools and managed services
that connect the right people to the right information in real-time, within and
across the extended enterprise. The company's Communicator Hub business
connectivity/collaboration, identity management and information exchange
services can be used either individually or combined to create
industry-specific solutions for financial services, the public sector and other
highly regulated markets. The results are faster collaborative decisions,
stronger relationships and reduced operational costs. Communicator is a
privately held company headquartered in White Plains, New York. For more
information, visit www.communicator.com, call 914-872-2800 or email
info@communicator.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 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.
Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their
respective owners.
PR Contact:
Emily Chamberlin
650-762-2945
echamberlin@ar-edelman.com
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