SAP to Provide Customers With Business Technology Optimization Software From Mercury
13 Dicembre 2005 - 2:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
SAP to Resell Mercury LoadRunner(TM) to Help Customers Verify
Application Performance WALLDORF, Germany and MOUNTAIN VIEW,
Calif., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SAP(R) AG (NYSE:SAP) and
Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ:MERQE), the global leader
in business technology optimization (BTO) software, today announced
that SAP will resell Mercury LoadRunner(R), Mercury's
market-leading load testing software. Available today under the
brand, "SAP(R) LoadRunner(TM) by Mercury," it helps customers
maximize the value of IT deployments through performance validation
and optimization capabilities for SAP's enterprise resource
planning (ERP) software and the SAP NetWeaver(R) platform. The
announcement follows Mercury's announcement last May that it will
deliver solutions for Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA)
deployments and underscores SAP's commitment to building its
partner ecosystem and portfolio of solutions for its customers.
Mercury LoadRunner helps customers verify that SAP applications
will meet business performance requirements before they "go live"
in implementation deployments. By using Mercury LoadRunner, SAP
project managers can obtain an accurate picture of end-to-end
system performance and optimize the scalability of applications,
which are powered by SAP NetWeaver. This helps managers avoid
over-spending on hardware and infrastructure costs. "As the number
one manufacturer of confectionery products in the United States, we
needed to upgrade our enterprise SAP system and verify that the
architecture was sufficient to meet our performance and
availability requirements. Using Mercury software, we completed our
SAP software upgrade on time and under budget, with no increase in
help desk calls and no negative impact on business operations,"
said Arthur Murray, manager, applications testing, quality
assurance and training at The Hershey Company. "We see this
enhanced relationship between SAP and Mercury as a very positive
step." SAP LoadRunner by Mercury is a load testing solution for
predicting system behavior and performance. It fully integrates
with and leverages the Computer Center Management System (CCMS)
from SAP and allows customers to automate application load testing.
"With more than 1,400 joint customers, Mercury and SAP have a long
and successful track record of enhancing the performance and
efficiency of SAP solution deployments," said Ross Wainwright,
senior vice president, North America Consulting, SAP. "We have
worked with Mercury for more than ten years and take great pride in
the seamless integration of our offerings and the strength of our
partnership." "For many of our customers, the performance of their
SAP applications equals the performance of the business," said Jay
Larson, senior vice president of worldwide field operations at
Mercury. "We are pleased that SAP is delivering our market leading
application delivery offerings to its customers directly. This
development represents significant opportunity for Mercury and SAP
to jointly focus on optimizing the business outcomes of our
customers' SAP implementations." To learn more, download the
Mercury white paper, "Mercury and SAP: Optimize the Business
Outcome," found at http://www.mercury.com/sapwhitepaper. MERCURY
APPLICATION DELIVERY LEADERSHIP 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) MERCURY AND
SAP Mercury and SAP have worked together since the mid-1990s. As an
SAP Software Partner, Mercury has developed a set of BTO software
offerings specifically designed to help optimize the quality,
performance and scalability of SAP solutions. Many Mercury products
have been integration certified by SAP, which helps assure
customers that the interfaces between Mercury products and SAP
solutions are reliable and seamless. In February 2005, Mercury
announced a multi-year commitment with SAP AG to offer Mercury
LoadRunner(TM), the industry's leading performance optimization
product, as part of the SAP Going-Live(TM) Check service for
customers using the SAP NetWeaver(R) platform. In April, 2005
Mercury was recognized by SAP with an SAP Pinnacle Award in
recognition for Special Achievement in Development and Innovation
for SAP NetWeaver. ABOUT MERCURY Mercury Interactive Corporation,
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
http://www.mercury.com/. ABOUT SAP SAP is the world's leading
provider of business software solutions*. Today, more than 29,800
customers in over 120 countries run more than 100,600 installations
of SAP(R) software-from distinct solutions addressing the needs of
small and midsize enterprises to suite solutions for global
organizations. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver(R) platform to drive
innovation and enable business change, mySAP(TM) Business Suite
solutions are helping enterprises around the world improve customer
relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create
efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations.
SAP industry solutions support the unique business processes of
more than 25 industry segments, including high tech, retail, public
sector and financial services. With subsidiaries in more than 50
countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including
the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP."
(Additional information at http://www.sap.com/ ) (*) SAP defines
business software solutions as comprising enterprise resource
planning and related software solutions such as supply chain
management, customer relationship management, product life-cycle
management and supplier relationship management. Forward Looking
Statements This press release contains "forward-looking statements"
under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that
involve risks and uncertainties concerning Mercury's future product
and service offerings. Mercury's actual product and service plans
and results may differ materially from the forward- looking
statements made by, or on behalf of, Mercury. The potential risks
and uncertainties include, among other things: 1) the timing of the
availability of Mercury products, services, product enhancements
and service enhancements; 2) the failure of Mercury products,
services, product enhancements and service enhancements to meet
customers' expectations, needs or perform as described; 3) the
dependence of Mercury's financial growth on the continued success
and acceptance of its existing and new software products and
services, and the success of its BTO strategy; 4) the ability to
increase sales through our direct and indirect channels, as well as
international sales; 5) intense competition for Mercury's products
and services; and 6) the additional risks and important factors
described in Mercury's SEC reports, including the Annual Report to
Stockholders on Form 10-K for fiscal year ended December 31, 2004,
and the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended
March 31, 2005, which are available at the SEC's website at
http://www.sec.gov/. All of the information in this press release
is made as of the date of this press release, and Mercury
undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements. NOTE:
Mercury, Mercury LoadRunner, Mercury Diagnostics, Mercury BTO
Enterprise, Mercury Performance Center and the Mercury logo are
trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation and may be registered
in certain jurisdictions. SAP, SAP NetWeaver, SAP R/3 and all other
SAP product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks or
registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other
countries around the world. All other company, brand and product
names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective holders. (1) Worldwide Distributed Automated Software
Quality Tools 2005-2009 Forecast and 2004 Vendor Shares; Stephen
Hendrick, IDC; July, 2005; report number 33771 (2) Gartner Magic
Quadrant for Application Quality Ecosystem, 2005: Leaders and
Challengers; March 8, 2005 ID G00124029 DATASOURCE: Mercury
Interactive Corporation CONTACT: Heather Sieberg of Mercury,
+1-650-603-5104, or , PST; or Jason Loesche of SAP,
+1-610-661-8541, or , EST; or SAP Press Office, +49-6227-7-46315,
CET, or +1-610-661-3200, EST, or ; or Chris Goold of
Burson-Marsteller, +49-69-238-09-21, or , CET Web site:
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