Press Release
Leading Analyst Firm Ranks FaceTime No. 1 in Enterprise Instant Messaging Management Revenues for Fifth Consecutive Year
BELMONT, Calif - January 28, 2009 - For the fifth 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 2007 worldwide
revenues for the IM market (not including Web security revenues), up 29 percent
over the prior year according to IDC forecasts.
Since 2001, FaceTime has been the definitive choice for managing IM and unified
communications in the enterprise Partnering with both Microsoft (as a Gold
Level Partner) and IBM Lotus, FaceTime provides security and deep compliance
for Microsoft Office Communications Server and IBM Lotus Sametime as well as
public IM networks such as AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, GoogleTalk and MSN. With
FaceTime, organizations can ensure safe and productive use of VoIP, Web
conferencing, IM and other UC services by blocking in-bound malware threats,
preventing information leakage and maintaining corporate and regulatory
compliance requirements
"FaceTime's track record of innovation over the years has continually placed
the company top of mind with large corporate IT customers when it comes to IM
management and security," said Mark Levitt, program vice president for
Collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 Strategies for IDC.
The IDC study is called "Worldwide Enterprise Instant Messaging/Presence
Applications and Management Products 2008-2012 Forecast and 2007 Vendor Shares:
Finding a Way for IM and Presence Through a Recession" (IDC #215450, December
2008). IDC estimates that worldwide revenue generated by sales of enterprise
instant messaging (EIM) applications and management products grew to $384
million in 2007, with 2008 revenue predicted to be up 14.8% to $441 million.
In this report, Levitt observes that the near-term productivity benefits of
real-time IM and presence tools can enable workers, "especially those on leaner
teams expected to do more, to communicate and locate with other people more
quickly and easily."
"We've seen a strong trend toward eliminating real estate, and empowering
telecommuters among the large corporate organizations we work with," said Frank
Cabri, vice president of marketing for FaceTime Communications. "The powerful
communication and presence tools of enterprise IM and Unified Communications
play a key role in this transition, putting pressure on IT managers to maintain
control over critical corporate intellectual property as well as ensure the
security and integrity of the changing corporate network."
About IMAuditor
FaceTime IMAuditor is a full-featured instant messaging proxy that secures and
manages all public and enterprise instant messaging use over an organization's
network. IMAuditor, which resides on the local area network, maintains an
integrated trust relationship with FaceTime's secure Web gateway appliance, the
Unified Security Gateway (USG). Working together IMAuditor and USG deliver
complete end-to-end security, management and compliance for real-time
communications in the enterprise, ensuring that corporate data is protected
both from outside threats such as spyware, viruses and worms, as well as from
intentional or deliberate information leakage from within the company.
In enterprise environments today, a mixture of employee-initiated applications
such as public IM and Web 2.0 resources are being utilized alongside corporate
sanctioned UC suites that integrate presence, IM, Web conferencing and VoIP.
The combination of evasive, consumer applications and enterprise-class UC
platforms is leading to an increasingly heterogeneous and complex environment
that multiplies the security, management and compliance challenges faced by IT,
requiring a common policy and reporting framework to simplify administration.
FaceTime's IMAuditor applies policies consistently across both consumer and
enterprise applications to effectively manage this heterogeneous environment,
scanning and applying established policies to message content plus all popular
file types. These polices can be set to analyze and detect sensitive or
confidential information in both messages and file attachments, can prevent
transmission of the information, and will warn the user about established
company policy regarding the sharing of corporate intellectual property, for
example. IMAuditor integrates with existing enterprise infrastructure including
active directory, databases, archiving systems and more.
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 five consecutive years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by
more than 1000 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:
Joshua Barnes
A&R Edelman
650-762-2865
joshua.barnes@ar-edelman.com
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