Mercury Interactive Corporation, a Certified Partner of the Oracle PartnerNetwork and the global leader in business technology optimisation (BTO) software, recently announced that the integrations of Mercury QuickTest Professional 9.0 and Mercury LoadRunner 8.1 with Oracle's Siebel 7.8 have been validated by Oracle.
Mercury is represented in Sub-Saharan Africa by master distributor Mercury Africa, a division of the EOH Group, one of South Africa's largest consulting, technology and outsourcing companies.
The validated integrations help Mercury and Oracle customers optimise the quality and performance of their business-critical Siebel applications during implementations and upgrades.
"Oracle Applications, including Siebel, enable information-driven business processes that connect and automate an organisation," says Johan Cloete, managing director, Mercury Africa. "Mercury has a long track record of helping customers enhance the quality and performance of their Oracle and Siebel application deployments."
"These new Quality Management validations underscore Mercury's commitment to helping customers successfully implement and upgrade Oracle solutions, while minimising total cost of ownership," comments Cloete. "We are pleased to help our mutual customers optimise the business outcomes of their Oracle and Siebel initiatives."
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Mercury, a world-leading provider of business technology optimisation (BTO) solutions, appointed EOH as the master reseller in sub-Saharan Africa in May 2005. EOH formed a new business unit called Mercury Africa and focuses on helping customers optimise the business value of IT.
EOH is a business and technology solutions provider creating lifelong partnerships by developing business and IT strategies, supplying and implementing solutions and managing enterprise-wide business systems and processes for medium to large clients. EOH operates in the following three clusters of business units as a fully integrated business:
Consulting - Concentrated under the EOH Consulting brand are business units offering services ranging from strategic and business process consulting, project services, change management, supply chain optimisation, and education. The EOH Consulting business unit is responsible for delivering IT solutions that make business sense. We focus on providing remarkable technology solutions using robust methodologies to perform along the following four dimensions of IT excellence:
* Business-alignment
* Quality
* Risk management
* Cost management
Technology - Through a number of subsidiary companies, EOH is able to sell, implement, and support a range of world class business applications including enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, business intelligence, advanced planning and scheduling, e-commerce and manufacturing execution systems.
Outsourcing - EOH offers comprehensive maintenance and support of client's IT infrastructure and applications through the rendering of full IT outsourcing, application hosting and managed services. In addition EOH offers full business process outsourcing services.
EOH has a presence in all major centres in South Africa and Botswana, and operates in the rest of Africa.
Mercury
Mercury Interactive Corporation (OTC: MERQ), the global leader in business technology optimisation (BTO) software, is committed to helping customers optimise the business value of information technology. Founded in 1989, Mercury conducts business worldwide and is one of the largest enterprise software companies today. Mercury provides software and services for IT governance, application delivery and application management. Customers worldwide rely on Mercury offerings to govern the priorities, processes and people of IT and test and manage the quality and performance of business-critical applications. Mercury BTO offerings are complemented by technologies and services from global business partners. For more information, please visit http://www.mercury.com.
Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of 17 700 companies that deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle's premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork programme provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today's global economy.
Oracle partners are able to offer their customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle's position as the world's largest enterprise software company. Partners who are able to demonstrate superior product knowledge, technical expertise and a commitment to doing business with Oracle qualify for the Oracle Certified Partner levels. Partners who are able to demonstrate the highest level of product knowledge, technical expertise and a commitment to business with Oracle qualify for the Oracle Certified Advantage Partner level.
Oracle and Mercury
Mercury's relationship with Oracle spans nearly a decade, and more than 1 000 companies have successfully used Mercury BTO software in conjunction with Oracle solutions to optimise the business outcomes of IT. As an Oracle Certified Partner, Mercury has developed a set of BTO software offerings specifically designed to help optimise the quality, performance and scalability of Oracle solutions. The companies work together to help joint customers experience seamless interoperability between specific products from Mercury and Oracle.
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