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Press Release
FaceTime Nets Lotus Advisor Award for Second Consecutive Year
The Company's Enterprise Edition IM Compliance and Security Tools Named Editor's Choice for "Instant Messaging Tools" Category
FOSTER CITY, CALIF. - March 28, 2005 - Furthering its leadership as the premier provider of solutions that secure, manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, FaceTime today announced it has earned the Lotus Advisor Editor's Choice Award for its Enterprise Edition package of IM security and compliance tools for the second year in a row.
The Lotus Advisor editorial staff evaluated a wide array of products at the Lotusphere 2005 show in January and selected the most innovative IBM Lotus-related technologies for the magazine's annual honors. FaceTime's Enterprise Edition IM security, management and compliance solution was awarded the silver in the "Instant Messaging Tools" category.
"The editors of Lotus Advisor Magazine are pleased to acknowledge the notable achievement of FaceTime Communications with a 2005 Lotus Advisor Editors' Choice silver Award for its innovative product," said John Hawkins, Editorial Director, Lotus Advisor Magazine. "The Award recognizes and celebrates strong tools and products for Lotus application architects, developers, and administrators."
FaceTime Enterprise Edition is a comprehensive solution for the end-to-end security, management and compliance of real-time communications that features user policy management, hygiene, archiving for compliance, blocking of unauthorized usage and network protection against sophisticated workarounds. It works with all public and enterprise IM clients to offer: - "True Compliance" through the blocking of attempts to circumvent an established compliance workflow and storage of messages sequentially in tamper-resistant binary format
- Prevention of unauthorized IM and P2P connections
- Complete logging, auditing and archiving of IM
- Content scanning and keyword matching to prevent disclosure of proprietary information
- Anti-virus and anti-spim controls
- Authentication of user identities and ability to block high-risk features
- Non-stop protection with the latest protocol updates through the FaceTime Instant Response Security Team (FIRST)
"FaceTime has more experience than any other vendor in providing security and compliance to leading IM networks like IBM Lotus IM," said Christopher Dean, senior vice president of business development at FaceTime Communications. "Lotus Advisor's recognition of FaceTime for the second straight year illustrates our steady leadership in this market."
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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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