Cordant Announces Management Reporting, Monitoring and Compliance Solution for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005

Business Wire, March 28, 2005

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Cordant Inc., a leading provider of solutions for Enterprise Instant Messaging (IM) applications, today announced the release of IMConsole 2005(TM), its solution for Microsoft's enterprise-grade IM and presence awareness platform, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005.

Available immediately, Cordant's IMConsole 2005(TM) with its Real-time Presence Dashboard will allow organizations to monitor the real-time aggregate usage of IM throughout the organization. Enterprises can use IMConsole 2005 for either compliance requirements or alternatively for operational monitoring of their IM deployments. IMConsole 2005 offers options to either retain or drop message contents while providing a rich set of management reports and statistics about IM usage, users, servers, and auditing activity. Such statistics could be particularly relevant for monitoring Public IM usage throughout the enterprise.

"Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 improves business efficiencies by enabling information workers to find and communicate with people in real time regardless of geography or time zone, via a more secure, enterprise-grade environment," said Marc Sanders, senior product manager, Real-Time Collaboration at Microsoft Corp. "The additional real-time monitoring and management reporting capabilities provided by Cordant's IMConsole 2005 further extend the benefits of Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 in areas that are very important to many of our customers."

"With IMConsole 2005 for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005, organizations now have every reason to embrace Enterprise IM," said Eric Rembold, Director of Sales at Cordant. "Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 together with Public Instant Messaging Connectivity (PIC) will empower customers to extend their reach and connect with customers, partners and vendors using the MSN, AOL and Yahoo! public IM services. Cordant's IMConsole 2005 is an affordable solution that provides customers with comprehensive Real time Monitoring, Searching, Reporting, Auditing and compliance management capabilities."

About Cordant Inc.

Founded in 2000, Cordant is a privately held company headquartered in Bellevue, WA. Cordant provides solutions for monitoring and compliance for Exchange 2000 Server, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003 and Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005, helping businesses meet policy or regulatory compliance requirements as are warranted by SEC, HIPAA, NYSE, NASD, and Sarbanes-Oxley. For more information visit www.cordant.com or call 425-653-0900.

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