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FaceTime Communications Applications Guide

Web 2.0 Application Research

ApplicationsGuide.com is a comprehensive resource center focused on the real-time Internet and the communication and collaboration applications that power it. Dedicated to helping enterprise IT professionals better understand the behavior of evasive and consumer-oriented applications that are increasingly being adopted by employees such as public and enterprise instant messaging, peer-to-peer file sharing, VoIP, IPTV, and social networks, ApplicationsGuide.com details the source, behavior and effective management and security tools for more than 4,000 Web applications of concern to IT managers.

This site is maintained by FaceTime Security Labs, the leading research team dedicated to the collection, analysis, associated threats and management of real-time and Web 2.0 applications. With research facilities on three continents, FaceTime Security Labs understands the tools and information organizations need to discover, control and secure for the benefit of the enterprise.

The New Internet

The Internet is about communications, collaboration and communities - whether it’s social networking, instant messaging or now video calling, users are bringing these tools into the workplace.

These network-enabled applications are often downloaded and installed by the end user without the permission or knowledge of the IT department.

Today, the FaceTime Security Labs team have identified more than 4,000 of these real-time and Web 2.0 applications, providing controls to safely enable their user in enterprise networks.

The Collaborative Internet: Usage Trends, Employee Attitudes and IT Impacts Fifth Annual Survey, March 2010

For the fifth consecutive year, FaceTime conducted its annual survey on the growth and impact of collaborative Internet applications. As in prior years, the research was conducted among a large sample of corporate IT managers and end users across all size organizations in North America, UK and Europe. Learn what over 1650 IT managers and end users have to say about Internet application usage, Web 2.0 and social networks, attitudes in the workplace and the impact on IT. Learn more

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	The Collaborative Internet 5th Annual Survey on Usage Trends, Employee Attitudes, and IT Impacts. Read the report.

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	e-Discovery and IM Get the facts about e-Discovery rules for electronically stored information - including IM.





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They're all it. Customer Service team wants to Tweet. The sales team wants to prospect for business on LinkedIn. The marketing team wants to create events and groups and games on Facebook.

So where do you start? How do you meet the business needs to openness and collaboration, while not compromising security and control?

Social media within the workplace is now accountable for a significant portion of new business opportunities for many organizations; unfortunately its rapid uptake, often against written policies, has also left many enterprises inadequately prepared from both a data leakage and a compliance perspective.

Find out more about controlling Social Network applications

Find out more about moderating content posted to Social Networks