Actiance Vantage for IBM Lotus Sametime addresses the security, management, and compliance of Unified Communications (UC), including user policy management, message hygiene, malware prevention, and archiving for compliance. Enterprise communications environments are heterogeneous, consisting of the “enterprise” UC platform and typically several public instant messaging (IM) networks, including those publicly available networks that do not connect with the corporate messaging platform.

Vantage provides granular security and compliance controls for Sametime, public IM networks, and industry-focused IM communities such as Thomson Reuters Messenger, Bloomberg, and YellowJacket. Designed to meet an organization’s security, management, and compliance requirements for real-time communications, in addition to supporting all the key government and industry regulations (e.g., FISMA, FINRA, SEC, FRCP, Sarbanes-Oxley, MiFID, and FERC), Vantage delivers additional benefits to native Sametime implementations.

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• Functional details

  Actiance delivers comprehensive management and control of real-time communications.

  Benefits:  Enforce use and block circumvention of IBM Sametime, Anti-virus & anti-SpIM, ID authentication and management, Protection of intellectual property, Session logging/archiving, Detection/usage reporting

  Actiance also addresses the following:

  • Authorized usage policies
  • Monitoring and auditing of information sharing
  • Authentication
  • Data confidentiality
  • Restricted access to sensitive data
  • Non-repudiation
  • Tamper-proof environments
  • Secure logging
  • Enforcement and validation of audit trail
  • Content scanning and keyword matching

   

• Business problem

  Security and Compliance of Instant Messaging and Unified Communications:

  Actiance provides total visibility and control over all IM with granular features that help protect businesses from network security risks, loss of confidential information, and non-compliance with corporate and regulatory compliance. Actiance solutions also standardize and enforce the use of Lotus® Sametime by blocking access to unauthorized public IM clients, increasing return on Sametime investment.

• Business opportunity

  Security and Compliance of Instant Messaging:

  With the increased use of workplace IM and P2P comes the associated risks and challenges of protecting sensitive company information. Mandated measures for monitoring and protecting proprietary and confidential information were once industry best practice - now prudence and law require them across multiple industries.

  IM poses a unique set of challenges - logging and archiving, unauthorized use, circumvention, loss of confidential information, and network security risk - just to name a few. Adding to this complexity, government agencies are beginning to crack down on regulatory non-compliance, imposing harsh financial penalties on those that do not comply. Actiance's solutions address IM compliance requirements for companies of all sizes and industries, including regulations that require logging and retrieval of electronic communications.

  As organizations deploy enterprise IM solutions such as IBM Sametime, use of freely available public IM clients typically continues, thus increasing the risks of malware on the network, loss of confidential information and non-compliance with corporate and regulatory policies. Actiance provides total visibility and control over all types of IM with granular features that protect businesses and help them enforce the use of Sametime by blocking access to unauthorized public IM clients, increasing the return on investment on Sametime.

• Competitive advantage

  Vantage's competitive strengths are as follows:

  • Authorized usage policies
  • Monitoring and auditing of information sharing
  • Authentication
  • Data confidentiality
  • Restricted access to sensitive data
  • Non-repudiation
  • Tamper-proof environments
  • Secure logging

• Industries

  Aerospace & Defense Industry
  Automotive Industry
  Banking Industry
  Chemicals & Petroleum Industry
  Computer Services Industry
  Consumer Products Industry
  Education Industry
  Electronics Industry
  Energy & Utilities Industry
  Financial Markets Industry
  Government Central/Federal industry
     Finance and Administration
  Government, State/Provincial/Local Industry
     Fin. & Admin, City/Municipal
     Fin. & Admin, County/Shire
     Fin. & Admin, Special District
     Fin. & Admin, State/Prov./Reg.
     Other Government
  Healthcare Industry
     Alternate Healthcare
     Health Plans / Payors
     Healthcare Other
     Integrated Healthcare Systems / Hospitals
     Pharmaceuticals
     Physicians / Clinics
  Industrial Products Industry
  Insurance Industry
     Insurance Carriers - Life & Asset Management (L&AM)
     Insurance Carriers - Property & Casualty (P&C)
     Insurance Intermediaries
     Other Insurance, N.E.C.
  Life Sciences Industry
     Pharmaceuticals
  Media & Entertainment Industry
  Professional Services Industry
  Retail Industry
  Telecommunications Industry
  Travel & Transportation Industry
  Wholesale Distribution & Services Industry
  

• Solution areas

  Aerospace & Defense
  Automotive
  Chemicals and Petroleum
  Consumer Products
  Education
  Electronics
  Energy and Utilities
  Financial Markets
  Financial Services/Banking
  Government
  Healthcare and Pharmaceutical
  Insurance
  Life Sciences
  Media and Entertainment
  Retail
  Telecommunications
  Travel and Transportation
  Wholesale Distribution
  Cross industry
     e-Mail Messaging and Collaboration
        Collaboration
        E-mail Communications
     Knowledge Management
        Collaborative learning
     Pervasive and Wireless Computing
        Advanced Infrastructure
     Professional Services
        Legal Services
        Litigation
     Science and Technology
        Data Management
  

• Customer size

  Very Small Business (Less than 50 employees)
  Small Business (50 to 99 employees)
  Midmarket Business (100 to 499 employees)
  Midmarket Business (500 to 1000 employees)
  Large Business (greater than 1000 employees)
  

• Languages supported

  English
  

• Countries/regions available for distribution

  Africa

  Algeria , Angola , Botswana , Burundi , Cameroon , Central African Republic , Chad , Congo , Congo, The Democratic Republic of the , Côte d'Ivoire , Ethiopia , Gabon , Gambia , Ghana , Guinea , Kenya , Liberia , Madagascar , Mali , Mauritania , Morocco , Mozambique , Namibia , Niger , Nigeria , Rwanda , Réunion , Senegal , Somalia , South Africa , Swaziland , Tanzania, United Republic of , Tunisia , Uganda , Western Sahara , Zambia , Zimbabwe

  Americas

  Argentina , Belize , Bermuda , Bolivia , Brazil , Canada , Chile , Colombia , Costa Rica , Dominican Republic , Ecuador , El Salvador , Greenland , Grenada , Guatemala , Guyana , Haiti , Honduras , Jamaica , Martinique , Mexico , Nicaragua , Panama , Paraguay , Peru , Puerto Rico , Suriname , United States , Uruguay , Venezuela

  Asia Pacific

  Australia , Azerbaijan , Bangladesh , Cambodia , China , Fiji , Guam , Hong Kong S.A.R. of China , India , Indonesia , Japan , Kazakhstan , Korea, Republic of , Malaysia , Micronesia, Federated States of , Mongolia , New Caledonia , New Zealand , Philippines , Singapore , Sri Lanka , Taiwan , Thailand , Viet Nam

  Europe

  Albania , Austria , Belgium , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Finland , France , Georgia , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Iceland , Ireland , Italy , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Macedonia, The former Yugoslav Republic of , Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Russian Federation , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , Turkey , Ukraine , United Kingdom

  Middle East

  Bahrain , Egypt , Israel , Jordan , Kuwait , Lebanon , Oman , Pakistan , Saudi Arabia , United Arab Emirates , Yemen

• Solution collateral

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  Vantage for IBM Sametime Datasheet (376KB)	Apr 28, 2011	Education News/Marketing Products Fact Sheet Sales Sales Kits Platform Summary Value Proposition

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• Hardware/OS platforms

  Linux
     IBM BladeCenter
     IBM System Cluster 1350
     IBM System Cluster 1600
     IBM System z (Mainframe)
     IBM System p (pSeries)
     IBM System i (iSeries)
     IBM System x (xSeries)
  Solaris (SUN)
     Sun Microsystems servers
  Windows 2000 Server (inclusive)
     IBM System x (xSeries)
  Windows XP
     Other non-IBM servers
  RHEL4
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  Other Operating System (Software as a Service)
     Hewlett-Packard servers (incl. Compaq)
     Other non-IBM servers
     Fujitsu Siemens servers
     Sun Microsystems servers
     Dell servers
  AIX 6.1
     IBM System i (iSeries)
  Windows Server 2008 (inclusive)
     IBM BladeCenter HSxx (Intel processor-based)
  RHEL6
     IBM System p (pSeries)
     IBM System i (iSeries)
     IBM System x (xSeries)
  

• Services

  Application Enabling Services
  Business Solutions: Application Innovation
  Business Solutions: Human Capital Management
  Infrastructure Solutions: Enterprise Security
  Infrastructure Solutions: Collaboration
  Infrastructure Solutions: Internet Technologies
  Managed Messaging & Collaborative Services
  

• Software

  Lotus
     IBM Lotus Domino
     IBM Lotus iNotes
     IBM Lotus Notes
     IBM Lotus Workflow
  

• Storage devices

  Data Retention Storage Systems
     IBM System Storage DR550
  Disk Storage Systems
     IBM System Storage DS300/DS400
     IBM System Storage DS4000 family (formerly FAStT)
     IBM System Storage DS6000 family
     IBM System Storage DS8000 family
     IBM System Storage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS)
     IBM System Storage Enterprise Storage Server Model 750
     IBM System Storage Enterprise Storage Server Model 800
  IBM System Storage SAN File System
  IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
  IBM System Storage SAN
     IBM System Storage SAN Switch F08 (3534-F08)
     IBM System Storage SAN Switch F32 (2109-F16/F32/M12)
  IBM System Storage Tape Storage Systems
     IBM System Storage Enterprise Tape 3592 Subsystem
     IBM System Storage Enterprise Tape Library 3590/3494
     IBM System Storage Enterprise Tape Library 3592/3494
     IBM System Storage Virtual Tape Server
     IBM System Storage UltraScalable Tape Library 3584
     IBM System Storage Ultrium Scalable Tape Library 3583
     IBM System Storage Ultrium Tape Autoloader 3581
     IBM System Storage Ultrium Tape Drive 3580
     IBM System Storage Ultrium Tape Library 3582