WHITE PLAINS, NY—November 18, 2003—To help organizations meet the increasing number of regulatory compliance provisions governing electronic communications, Communicator Inc has signed a preferred partnership agreement with FaceTime Communications. The partnership provides companies that use Hub Connex(SM), Communicator’s secure business connectivity suite, enhanced options for managing, storing and auditing electronic messages.

This new partnership ensures seamless integration between FaceTime Communications’ leading IM management suite, including IM Auditor and IM Director, and two modules of Hub Connex, Forums, which provide secure, multi-participant discussions, and Hub IM, Communicator Inc’s enterprise instant messaging service currently used by more than 80,000 people at 2,000 companies worldwide.

Garban Intercapital, a customer of Communicator Inc’s and FaceTime Communications’ integrated solution, provides a specialist intermediary broking service to commercial banks, investment banks and other liquidity providers in the wholesale financial markets. Marie Patton, vice president at Garban, noted, “It's important for Garban Intercapital to support rapid communication and collaboration between our team and customers, as well as to archive communications for policy reasons. The integrated solution we now have in place from Communicator and FaceTime achieves these goals.”

FaceTime’s IM Auditor enhances IT and compliance departments' visibility into the use of real-time messaging within organizations and gives customers the ability to record, store and supervise electronic communications generated on heterogeneous systems. These capabilities extend Hub Connex’s built-in identity management, community controls, archiving and reporting tools that include message capture, logging and delivery of archives. Hub Connex can be tailored to the needs of the customer and enhanced through products and services from Communicator’s partners to help organizations adhere to the many new regulatory compliance requirements and procedures governing electronic communications.

“Communicator and FaceTime already share a number of existing and prospective customers, many of whom have integrated our products to successfully meet their needs,” said FaceTime’s vice president of products and chief technology officer, Jonathan Christensen. “Deployed by hundreds of financial services firms, FaceTime's IM Auditor is now being combined with Communicator’s Hub Connex to meet rising demand for a comprehensive solution with proven reliability and regulatory compliance in the field.”

“Compliance is a critical issue for companies in regulated industries such as financial services and the public sector,” said Gary Reifman, product manager for Messaging Services at Communicator Inc. “Our goal is to provide Hub Connex customers an array of options for managing their electronic messages. With the addition of FaceTime to our partnership program, Communicator delivers a comprehensive solution that meets regulatory compliance requirements for the protection and management of electronic information and communications.”

Hub Connex
Hub Connex is a secure business connectivity suite that connects the right people to the right information in real-time. Hub Connex is built on an open, modular platform integrating content distribution, alerting, discussion forums, standards-based enterprise instant messaging and presence, and identity-based directory services. By using combinations of these capabilities for real-time information sharing and collaboration, organizations make decisions more quickly and intelligently, and build closer relationships with customers, partners and colleagues across locations. For more information about Hub Connex, visit www.hubconnex.com.

About Communicator Inc
Communicator Inc provides a suite of secure software tools and managed services that connect the right people to the right information in real-time, within and across the extended enterprise. The company’s Communicator Hub business connectivity/collaboration, identity management and information exchange services can be used either individually or combined to create industry-specific solutions for financial services, the public sector and other highly regulated markets. The results are faster collaborative decisions, stronger relationships and reduced operational costs. Communicator is a privately held company headquartered in White Plains, New York. For more information, visit www.communicator.com, call 914-872-2800 or email info@communicator.com.

About FaceTime Communications
Founded in 1998 with an early vision to integrate instant messaging into the enterprise, FaceTime Communications is the most widely deployed provider of IM security and management solutions that address network and information security, regulatory and corporate compliance, and call center customer service. FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by over 300 customers, with over 50% of the largest global 100 financial institutions, including 7 of the 8 largest U.S. banks. The company's leading cable, energy, entertainment, healthcare, insurance, technology and travel customers include Amica Insurance, BankOne, Dominion Energy, Hewlett-Packard, Jefferies & Co, NCR, Soundview Technologies, Standard Bank London, Thomas Weisel Partners, Toronto Dominion Bank, Wachovia Securities and Western Union. A renown pioneer, FaceTime was the first company to provide multi-network access to public IM networks AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! while also providing interoperability with such private and enterprise IM networks as Communicator Inc, IBM Lotus, Instant Bloomberg, Jabber, Microsoft, Reuters and Yahoo!. Headquartered in Foster City, California, FaceTime can be reached at www.facetime.com, (888) 349-FACE, or via IM screen name FaceTimeLive.

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