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[13 December 2005]
Mercury and Singapore Management University partner
to train Asia Pacific IT professionals
- Mercury Donates Over US$1Million in Mercury
Performance Center Software
- Students Receive BTO Training to Help Them
Become the Best Next-generation IT Professionals
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF – DECEMBER
12, 2005 – Mercury Interactive Corporation
(NASDAQ: MERQE), the global leader in business technology
optimization (BTO) software, today announced that it has
partnered with Singapore Management University (SMU) to
help develop and train Asia Pacific's next generation of
IT professionals. The initiative includes Mercury's provision
of over US$1million worth of Mercury Performance Center™ software.
Additionally, Singapore Management University's School
of Information Systems has developed a BTO raining course
for SMU graduating students to become better educated on
the latest technology and business solutions.
With this initiative, SMU's School of Information
Systems will teach students about application performance
using a center of excellence approach. Students will learn
how demand, project and resource management as well as risk
mitigation are important when deploying mission-critical
applications in today's business environment. Ultimately,
the course is designed to equip graduating students with
knowledge and experience necessary to drive business outcomes
from IT.
SMU deployed the recently announced Mercury
Performance Center 8.1™, part of Mercury BTO Enterprise™,
which comprises a new and enhanced set of Mercury application
modules, a real-time dashboard and an enterprise foundation.
The software modules in Mercury Performance Center include
Mercury LoadRunner™, Mercury Diagnostics™, Mercury
Tuning™, Mercury Capacity Planning™, and Mercury
Global Management™.
"Mercury Performance Center 8.1 is
instrumental in helping our senior Business
IT students prepare for designing and testing solutions
for the real world,” said Professor Steven
Miller, dean, School of Information Systems, Singapore
Management University. “SMU is delighted that
our students are the first in Asia Pacific to use this advanced
software as part of our Architectural Analysis course.”
“The next generation of Asia Pacific
IT professionals must be able to realize the connection between
business outcomes and IT application performance in order
to be a success, “ said Mike New, country manager,
South Asia region, Mercury. “Training with Mercury
products will help these students drive BTO initiatives and
best practices when they graduate.”
For the past 15 years, Mercury has helped
thousands of customers optimize application quality and performance.
According to IDC, Mercury is the “uncontested leader” in
application delivery with more than 58 percent market share,
nearly three times that of any other vendor 1. Mercury is
positioned in the leader quadrant in Gartner Inc.'s “Application
Quality Ecosystem, 2005: Leaders and Challengers. 2 ”
ABOUT MERCURY
Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ:
MERQE), the global leader in business technology optimization
(BTO) software, is committed to helping customers optimize
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 www.mercury.com.
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# # #
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Performance Center , Mercury LoadRunner, Mercury Diagnostics,
Mercury Tuning, Mercury Capacity Planning, Mercury Global
Management, and the Mercury logo are trademarks of Mercury
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1 IDC Worldwide Distributed Automated
Software Quality Tools 2005-2009 Forecast and 2004 Vendor
Shares, July 26, 2005 ID 33771
2 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application
Quality Ecosystem, 2005: Leaders and Challengers; March
8, 2005 ID G00124029
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