Press Release
Leading Analyst Firm Ranks FaceTime No. 1 in Enterprise Instant Messaging
Management Revenues For Fourth Consecutive Year
FOSTER CITY, CALIF. - August 27, 2007 - For the fourth consecutive year,
leading IT market research and advisory firm IDC has named FaceTime
Communications the market share leader among instant messaging management
vendors. The ranking is based on IDC's estimate of FaceTime's worldwide
revenues for the IM market (not including Web security revenues), up 28 percent
in 2006 from 2005.
FaceTime enables the safe and productive use of greynets including public and
enterprise instant messaging applications such as Microsoft Live Communications
Server and IBM Sametime, and other real-time communications applications.
FaceTime solutions allow organizations to block in-bound malware threats,
prevent information leakage and maintain corporate, e-discovery and regulatory
compliance requirements while realizing the productivity and cost saving
benefits of real-time communications.
"FaceTime's continued performance and growth in the EIM management market
reflects the company's alignment with current EIM management market
opportunities," said Mark Levitt, program vice president for Collaborative
Computing and the Enterprise Workplace for IDC.
The IDC study is called "Worldwide Enterprise Instant Messaging Applications
and Management Products 2006 Vendor Shares: IM and Presence Are Ready for
Broader Collaboration" (IDC #208000, August 2007). In this study, IDC estimates
that worldwide revenue generated by sales of enterprise instant messaging (EIM)
applications and management products grew to $325 million in 2006.
"More organizations are deploying enterprise IM to increase employee
collaboration and productivity. This brings an increasingly heterogeneous
environment where public IM and enterprise IM coexist," said Kailash Ambwani,
president and CEO of FaceTime Communications. "Our customers want a single
solution to secure and manage all their real-time communications, using an
architecture that can extend to become the platform for broader enterprise-wide
unified communications."
About FaceTime Communications
FaceTime enables the safe and productive use of greynets like instant
messaging, Skype, web conferencing and P2P file sharing. Ranked number one by
IDC in worldwide revenue market share among instant messaging management
vendors for the fourth consecutive year, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are
used by more than 800 customers including nine of the 10 largest U.S. banks.
FaceTime Security Labs delivers the industry's first IMPact Index, which
assesses "point-in-time" risks posed by viruses, worms and other malware
propagating through greynet applications. FaceTime supports or has strategic
partnerships with all leading public and private IM network providers,
including AOL, Google, IBM, Jabber, Microsoft, Skype and Yahoo!.
FaceTime is headquartered in Foster City, California. For more information visit http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-FACE.
PR Contact:
Emily Chamberlin
650-762-2945
echamberlin@ar-edelman.com
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