IMlogic Partners to Deliver Enterprise Gateway to MSN Network

IMlogic Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure software solutions for the rapidly growing Instant Messaging (IM) market, today announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver an enabling product for Microsofts new MSN Messenger Connect for Enterprises. With MSN Connect and the IMlogic IM Manager Gateway for MSN Messenger Connect for Enterprises, for the first time, companies will control instant messaging use as well as corporate and employee IM identities to finally utilize IM as a true strategic communications vehicle.

BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 13, 2002 -- IMlogic Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure software solutions for the rapidly growing Instant Messaging (IM) market, today announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver an enabling product for Microsofts new MSN Messenger Connect for Enterprises. With MSN Connect and the IMlogic IM Manager Gateway for MSN Messenger Connect for Enterprises, for the first time, companies will control instant messaging use as well as corporate and employee IM identities to finally utilize IM as a true strategic communications vehicle.    

With more than 20 million corporate users of IM and an annual growth rate of 200% (Giga Information), IM has achieved status as the fastest growing communications medium of all time. However, the rapid adoption of public IM services by individual employees has kept public IM use beyond corporate control, lacking the namespace, user identity and overall management capabilities necessary for a powerful enterprise solution.

As a result of this partnership, companies can own their own corporate namespaces and assign and authenticate individual employee identities while achieving enterprise-class management, control, security, reporting, archiving and compliance. The trusted domain names and authenticated individual identities instill the required confidence needed for effective communication between companies and customers, partners, suppliers, and prospects.

MSN Messenger Connect for Enterprises enables companies to use the power of instant messaging to conduct business with their broad set of customers on the MSN Messenger Service with immediacy, convenience, and control," said Steve Liffick, general manager for MSN Messenger Connect for Enterprises at Microsoft. IMlogic is an important technology provider in delivering this solution because of the IM management functions provided by the IMlogic IM Manager product, its experience with a variety of enterprise customers and its understanding of delivering the combination of Microsoft and IM technologies."

This relationship builds on Microsofts agreement to license IMlogics IM archiving technology in Microsofts next-generation enterprise real-time communication platform, codenamed Greenwich. With this new agreement, IMlogic is enabling Microsoft to offer its corporate customers a secure and trusted approach to evolving public IM networks for use in enterprise communications.

The IM Manager Gateway for MSN Messenger Connect for Enterprises is an advanced component of IMlogic IM Manager. The product utilizes the enterprises corporate directory as the single source for provisioning and managing IM identities and controlling IM access privileges. Combined with the capabilities in IM Manager, IMlogic and Microsoft instant messaging customers can achieve comprehensive control, security, reporting, compliance, deployment and performance for all IM applications, both inside and beyond the organization.

With this partnership, we are addressing key customer requirements to make public IM enterprise strength," said Francis deSouza, president and CEO of IMlogic. We are now able to bring companies an unprecedented secure and reliable way to the use the MSN public IM network, and will continue to work with Microsoft to deliver innovation in instant messaging for corporations."

IMlogic addresses the breadth of IM management needs -- control, security, reporting, archiving and compliance -- while meeting the rigorous performance and deployment demands of enterprise IT organizations. IM Manager supports all major public IM networks and enterprise IM servers including MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Microsoft Exchange 2000 IM, Reuters, and Lotus Sametime.

MSN Messenger Connect for Enterprises and IMlogic IM Manager Gateway to MSN Messenger Connect for Enterprises will be available in the first quarter of 2003.

About IMlogic Inc.
IMlogic, Inc., headquartered in Boston, Mass, is a pioneer in delivering enterprise-class infrastructure software that helps companies control and leverage the use of Instant Messaging (IM), the world's fastest growing communications medium. IMlogic's strategic vision provides organizations a comprehensive approach for incorporating IM capabilities in business-critical communications and applications. The company's first offering, IMlogic IM Manager, lets enterprises secure, control, and report on IM usage while satisfying regulatory and compliance requirements set by HR and government agencies (SEC, HIPAA). IMlogic is backed by leading venture capital firms General Catalyst and Kodiak Venture Partners. For more information on IMlogic visit www.imlogic.com.
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