FaceTime expands instant messaging. (New Products).

FaceTime Communications has announced the immediate availability of its IM Auditor Enterprise, designed to provide businesses with the ability to centrally manage and control instant messaging communications between employees, partners and customers without requiring a change to the existing messenger client or TM network community. The real-time communications management software solution was introduced to expand on FaceTime's TM Auditor product which tracks, monitors and reports on TM communications. TM Auditor Enterprise extends the regulatory compliance workflow features of TM Auditor to provide IT organizations with centralized detection, administration and reporting for the entire enterprise. This can help enable businesses to apply the power of real-time communications to critical business processes while managing the information security risks associated with ins use. The scalability of TM Auditor Enterprise was added to allow organizations to extend traditional business policies to real-time communic ations that are otherwise difficult to manage. Organizations deploying TM Auditor Enterprise can benefit from the adoption of real-time communication technologies such as private and public instant messaging and Web text chat. New centralized control and risk management functions provided by TM Auditor Enterprise include advanced corporate directory integration, local routing of public TM communication, secure user authorization, advanced monitoring and intercept, enterprise application integration and compliance auditing workflow, IM Auditor Enterprise is a software server solution installed behind enterprise firewalls to support TM services from IM network providers including AOL, Microsoft, IBM Lotus, Yahoo!, Reuters and Communicator Inc. www.facetime.com