Mercury Interactive Corporation, the world`s leading provider of Internet application testing solutions, has announced that ten more companies have joined its E-Business Alliance Program, bringing the total number to 20.
The new e-business technology innovators to join the Program are BEA Systems, Inc., BroadVision, Inc., CommerceQuest, DoubleClick, HAHT Software, IONA Technologies, OneSoft Corp., Peakstone Corp., Selectica, and TimesTen Performance Software.
Volkmar Spieth, MD of Mercury Interactive (South Africa), says the E-Business Alliance Program is comprised of visionary Internet application server, development tool and Web application vendors who have adopted Mercury Interactive`s LoadRunner and WinRunner for use in their benchmarking and performance testing centres.
Participants leverage Mercury Interactive`s industry leading functional and load testing solutions to deliver scalable, high-performance e-business applications that provide a positive user experience to their customers.
In addition, the leading software test lab, NSTL, has joined the E-Business Alliance Program and will act as a certification authority for tests performed by E-Business Alliance Partners. NSTL will offer a number of service levels to alliance members and offer certification awards for alliance partner load tests conducted at NSTL testing labs or using NSTL-approved test methodology.
NSTL has software testing labs worldwide and will serve as E-Business Alliance testing centres and offer expertise in load testing using Mercury Interactive`s LoadRunner.
"With Web site crashes in the headlines nearly every day, testing has become top-of-mind for dot coms as well as large companies delivering Web applications," comments Spieth.
"Because of the critical need for e-businesses to demonstrate that their applications provide a positive user experience and will stand up to enterprise-level load, Mercury Interactive`s E-Business Alliance Program has gained significant momentum."
As members of Mercury Interactive`s E-Business Alliance Program, participants are able to create benchmarks with a single tool to verify performance across the enterprise and accelerate deployment of e-business applications. Members receive access to the latest versions of LoadRunner and WinRunner with full customer support, including upgrades, applicable test libraries, and certification on Mercury Interactive products.
The new participants join E-Business Alliance Partners announced earlier this year including Allaire Corp., Ariba Inc., Bluestone Software, Calico Commerce, Inc., Gemstone Systems Inc., nCipher Inc., SilverStream, Sun-Netscape Alliance, Symantec and Vision Software
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NSTL`s e-commerce testing facility
In May 1999 NSTL announced its E-Commerce Scalability Test Lab. The lab features dozens of powerful client workstations and networking equipment, and is capable of testing the performance and scalability of an end-to-end solution, not just individual components. The facility is capable of generating large loads of concurrent Web clients, with automatic electronic data capture of a wide variety of statistics. The lab is capable of generating a realistic load consisting of a mix of user profiles, simultaneously exercising different portions of a dynamic Web application based on real-world Web usage patterns.
"IT managers need objective data that can form the basis for making solid technology decisions," notes Lloyd Holder, Director of Testing for NSTL. "Our testing expertise combined with Mercury Interactive`s tools will give IT managers the data necessary to make solid technology decisions and help ensure the scalability and performance of their critical e-commerce sites."
Mercury interactive`s complete e-business testing solution
Mercury Interactive`s e-business testing solution, comprised of TestDirector, LoadRunner, WinRunner, and the Astra family helps IS organisations and system integrators reduce the risk and deploy their applications with confidence by offering a complete integrated testing solution for test management, load testing, functional testing and Web site management. These tools can test any e-business application - private intranets, extranets and the Internet -- to predict system performance, test scalability, verify functionality, interoperability and application security. Mercury Interactive`s e-business testing solution was recently named "Best of Web Tools" by attendees at Internet Commerce Expo (iCE) 1999. WinRunner was awarded the Editor`s Choice Award by Java Developer`s Journal (www.javadevelopersjournal.com) in the testing tools category. Mercury Interactive was recognised with the Software Technical Assistance Recognition (STAR) Award from the Software Support Professionals Association (SSPA) for best "Electronic Support Services".
NSTL
NSTL, Inc. (http://www.NSTL.com), a division of CMP Media, was established in 1983 as the world`s first independent organisation dedicated exclusively to testing the functionality, usability and performance of hardware and software. NSTL is committed to providing accurate, objective, independent IT testing and consulting services for hardware and software manufacturers, corporations, and government agencies. Headquartered in suburban Philadelphia, NSTL has labs in Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, the U.K., Israel, Argentina, and Canada.
Mercury Interactive Corporation
Mercury Interactive Corporation (www.merc-int.com) is the worldwide leader in Internet application testing solutions. The company offers a comprehensive line of automated testing tools and application performance management products that improve the scalability, availability and reliability of Internet applications and help ensure a positive end user experience.
Mercury Interactive has its headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., and maintains offices throughout the United States and internationally with a network of distributors throughout the world. The company`s common stock trades on the Nasdaq National Market tier of The Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol MERQ.
The company opened its doors in South Africa on June 1, 1999.
Quotes from new Mercury interactive e-business alliance program partners
"Uptime is a huge concern for companies deploying applications online. BEA is committed to providing always-available, always-reliable e-commerce solutions that meet the expectation of the highly demanding and increasingly savvy e-generation consumers that drive our customers businesses. By joining Mercury Interactive`s E-Business Alliance Program, we are demonstrating our commitment to the high standards of reliability required in today`s Internet market."
Joe Menard
Sr. Vice President of Marketing
BEA Systems, Inc.
www.beasys.com
"With Mercury Interactive, customers can test high transaction e-business applications as well as ERP, database, and legacy systems that connect to BroadVision. Using Mercury Interactive`s e-business testing solutions, our customers can achieve better integration with existing business systems and faster time-to-market by identifying, tuning and resolving performance issues."
Sandra Vaughan
Vice President of Marketing
BroadVision, Inc.
www.broadvision.com
"CommerceQuest provides the reliable B2B infrastructure for e-commerce, and it`s imperative that we have tools available to test enterprise-strength Internet-based solutions BEFORE they go live. We`ve seen what happens when Internet companies don`t have the right infrastructure in place-testing will enable our customers to know BEFORE they have a load problem."
Colin Osborne
CEO
CommerceQuest
www.commercequest.com
"DoubleClick uses LoadRunner for load balance testing of its Adservers and WinRunner for testing the functionality of its AdManage user interface. The combination of these tools helps us ensure that we achieve stability and scalability to our high performance backend applications, providing superior products and services to our valued customers."
John Sabella
VP Engineering
DoubleClick
www.doubleclick.net
"We were eager to be part of Mercury Interactive`s E-Business Alliance Program. Our customers demand high-availability and performance for their B2B sell-side e-Scenario applications, and Mercury Interactive is a great choice for testing bet-your-business Internet applications."
Grant Kitching
Platform Product Manager
HAHT Software
www.haht.com
"IONA Technologies is a leading provider of software and services that help organisations build and deploy eBusiness applications. As more and more customers use our eBusiness solutions to bring internal and external IT resources to the Internet, they can take advantage of Mercury Interactive`s eBusiness testing tools to verify the proven standards-based functionality, scalability and performance of IONA`s solutions."
Ronan Bradley
VP, Product Management
IONA Technologies
www.iona.com
"Our clients count on us to help them realise the potential of the Internet as a global sales channel. The flexibility and scalability of our solutions is critical because positive customer experience translates directly into a bigger bottom line for our clients. We are glad that Mercury Interactive shares the same vision and are proud to be a member in their E-Business Alliance Program."
Roger Watts
Manager, Quality Assurance, Internet Solution Centre
OneSoft Corporation
www.onesoft.com
"Mercury Interactive`s performance and load testing tools are an important part of Peakstone`s eAssurance Process. The Peakstone eAssurance process enables eCompanies to deliver consistent and predictable service to their customers and avoid meltdown due to capacity overload. Mercury Interactive`s E-Business Alliance program will help leading vendors develop products and services that deliver exceptional end-user experience over the Internet."
Tamara Artim
Director of Marketing
Peakstone Corporation
www.peakstone.com
"Selectica offers companies like BMW, 3Com and HP, the industry`s most scalable and reliable system for selling complex products over the Internet. Selectica uses Mercury Interactive`s LoadRunner to validate our systems` scalability and reliability, which is essential to ensuring our customers` e-commerce success."
Chris Binns-Smith
Director, Technical Support and Application Sizing
Selectica
www.selectica.com
"Times Ten`s in-memory database technology provides the performance necessary for today`s most demanding e-commerce Web sites, allowing them to present personalised content in real-time. Mercury Interactive`s LoadRunner and WinRunner are excellent tools that our customers use to help ensure that their sites scale and continue to perform, even at extreme user-loads."
Tim Shetler
VP Marketing
TimesTen Performance Software
www.timesten.com