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Actiance Expands Partnership With ZL Technologies to Deliver Enterprise and Public Social Data Into Unified Archive

BELMONT, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 21, 2013) - Actiance, helping organizations benefit from communications, collaboration and social networking, today announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with ZL Technologies. Under the terms of the expanded partnership, the organizations will deliver archiving capabilities for enterprise and public social data, integrated with current capabilities for instant messaging and unified communications to ZL Technologies' customers. As ZL Technologies' partner for social media and social business content capture, Actiance delivers the capability to contextually control, monitor and collect unconventional or unstructured data sources, such as collaboration tools and social media, which then, through the integration is stored and leveraged for analytics in the ZL Unified Archive.

"We're thrilled to announce the growth of our relationship with Actiance to deliver an incredibly robust and seamless archiving solution for social data to our enterprise customers," said Kon Leong, CEO of ZL Technologies. "The widespread adoption of social media has unleashed a new class of complex data that the enterprise must treat as both corporate records and a source of powerful business insight, and our continued integration with Actiance enables them to do so effectively."

In addition to traditional interactions through email, emerging sources such as instant messaging, web chat and social media are considered electronically stored information, and as such, they must meet regulatory requirements for compliance and e-discovery purposes such as future litigation and legal discovery. This integration enables businesses to process data from disparate sources and pool messages into a consolidated group. Each message -- regardless of origin -- is indexed, made available for search and analytics, checked for compliance violations and presented for review if applicable. In addition, enterprises can monitor and view archived data from a single portal while keeping the context and source of each message intact.

"Building on Actiance's history of providing best-in-class solutions, we're pleased to deepen our integration with ZL Technologies to include contextual social media and social business data," said Sarah Carter, general manager of social business at Actiance. "Ensuring that our joint clients can utilize both solutions gives complete flexibility and maximizes existing infrastructure."

For more information on Actiance or its products, please visit http://www.actiance.com/. Actiance is on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/actiance. To read the company's blog, please visit: http://blog.actiance.com/.

About ActianceActiance is a global leader in communication, collaboration, and social media governance for the enterprise. Its governance platform is used by millions of professionals across dozens of industries. With the power of communication, collaboration, and social media at their fingertips, Actiance helps professionals everywhere to engage with customers and colleagues so they can unleash social business. The Actiance platform gives organizations the ability to ensure compliance for all their communications channels. It provides real-time content monitoring, centralized policy management, contextual capture of content and smart archiving which improves the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of eDiscovery and helps protect users from malware and accidental or malicious leakage of information. Actiance supports all leading social media, unified communications, collaboration, and IM platforms, including Facebook (FB), LinkedIn (LNKD), Twitter, Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), Skype, IBM, (IBM), Jive (JIVE), Microsoft (MSFT), Cisco (CSCO), and Salesforce.com (CRM).

Actiance headquarters are in Belmont, California. For more information, visit http://www.actiance.com or call 1-888-349-3223.

About ZL Technologies. ZL Technologies, Inc. makes Unified Archive software ("ZL UA") to enable large enterprises to manage all unstructured content such as e-mail and files, to satisfy corporate archiving needs for e-Discovery, records management, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and storage management. It also enables the same unstructured content to become the organization's Corporate eMemory for competitive advantage, such as sharing knowledge, experts, and history across the enterprise. ZL UA's unique differentiator is its unified architecture, which consolidates all applications and billions of documents under one platform, thus eliminating today's fractured data silos which significantly raise operating costs and legal risks. Demonstrating a proven track record with Global 500 customers and strategic partnerships with major players such as Oracle, Unisys, and SunGard, ZL has emerged as the technology leader in harnessing unstructured "Big Data" for strategic advantage. For more information, please visit http://www.zlti.com

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Social networking sites may help smokers kick the habit

By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Smokers who turn to social networking sites focused on quitting smoking form strong supportive bonds with their like-minded peers, a new study reveals. And these cyber-connections boost the odds they'll kick their habit.

The finding is based on survey responses from 252 registrants of health-centric websites.

"I found that people who join health-based social networking sites are able to quit smoking and abstain for longer periods of time because of the sense of community they build with other members," said study author Joe Phua, an assistant professor in the department of advertising and public relations at the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

The study appeared online recently in the Journal of Communication.

To assess how online social networking might affect smoking cessation efforts, between 2009 and 2010 Phua focused on registered members at one of six health-focused portals, including iVillage, Why Quit and Inspire. None of the sites was sponsored by a drug manufacturer, and all included standard social media features, such as profiles, news feeds, message boards and "friend" links.

About seven in 10 of the network users were white, at an average age of roughly 40. As a whole, the group tended to be relatively affluent and well-educated.

Participants completed an online questionnaire about the amount of time they spent on the site and the degree to which each felt their attitudes, beliefs, sense of self and specific views on smoking were shared by other site members.

They also indicated the amount of social support they felt they got from other members, alongside informative, emotional and practical assistance. Finally, respondents ranked themselves in terms of their confidence about being able to snuff out their cigarettes for good.

On average, those surveyed spent nearly four hours a week on their respective sites, posting an average of six messages each week, Phua found.

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