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Global Internet Performance Conference (GIPC), SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., — June 10, 2002 — At the opening of its third annual Global Internet Performance Conference, Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN) today announced important advances across the three critical areas of its business; benchmarking, testing and application performance management (APM), and further integrated its Web performance data into the systems enterprises already use to manage the performance of their e-business infrastructure. The announcements underscore Keynote's momentum and continued move into the enterprise.
In today's tight economy Keynote's integrated solutions provide enterprise customers with ‘Total Performance Management' for increasing the return on investment and saving money. ‘Total Performance Management' is comprised of complete end-to-end solutions delivered by Keynote and KeyPartners for benchmarking, testing and managing the end-to-end performance of e-business applications and systems. Keynote's overarching goal is to enable enterprise customers to leverage existing management software, increase the number of satisfied customers, reduce unnecessary capital expenditures, provide competitive advantage and deliver an optimal quality of experience to end users.
In benchmarking, Keynote announced the immediate availability of Transaction Perspective™ 4.0 (see separate press release) that provides greatly enhanced diagnostics for Web transactions across the enterprise and a bevy of features targeted to meet the demanding needs of an operations group within a large organization. The new version now includes detailed network level components and measurement detail of every single component of every page of a transaction so that when problems do occur they can be quickly triaged, diagnosed and repaired.
Other benchmarking news includes the announcement of Wireless Perspective™ 2.0 (see separate press release) that simplifies diagnostics, interpretation and correlation of wireless performance across all large carrier networks. Keynote is the only vendor to supply a comprehensive suite of enterprise performance management solutions that support all industry-standard protocols, including short message service (SMS), for the wireless market.
Keynote is the clear benchmarking market leader with over 80% market share and the world's largest distributed infrastructure of measurement computers that provides customers with the most representative and accurate benchmarking data available.
In application performance management (APM) Keynote is continuing to tie its Web performance management solutions further into the enterprise. In support of that strategy Keynote announced two brand new services and the enhancement of an existing one (see separate press releases):
In testing, Keynote introduced the Keynote Testing Portal (see separate press release) - A unified enterprise test portal through which customers view the ongoing status of their tests and results in real time for both their Test Perspective™ and LoadPro™ load tests.
"In a sense, today's announcements represent a clear coming of age for Keynote," said Umang Gupta, chairman and CEO of Keynote. The sheer scope of our news indicates to anyone watching our progress over the last 18 months that Keynote has delivered on its promise, and has now, in fact, become a provider of enterprise-class, enterprise-ready solutions for managing the end-to-end performance of e-business applications and systems. And it's all done through our no muss, no fuss approach of cost-effective services. No new and expensive to buy and-maintain software required."
As enterprises struggle to tie together their corporate and e-business technology infrastructure, the formerly clear IT needs and requirements between application development, operations and network and systems management have blurred.
Keynote's ‘Total Performance Management' solutions bring to the enterprise a unique set of Internet performance management services that are specifically designed to directly address and serve this new set of IT challenges.
In benchmarking, Keynote leverages the world's largest geographically distributed infrastructure of measurement computers to provide enterprises with the accurate and timely information they need to compare and trend total performance, enforce SLAs and detect, diagnose and repair end-to-end performance problems in their e-business infrastructure.
In testing, Keynote's worldwide distributed testing infrastructure allows enterprises to quickly and cost-effectively validate the performance of their e-business applications. By using Keynote's highly accurate ‘wind-tunnel testing' services, customers identify system performance bottlenecks, understand capacity constraints and verify functionality through self-service tests and full service modeling, testing and analysis.
With Keynote's APM services, enterprises actively manage the total performance of their e-business systems. Using Keynote's unique blend of services and appliances, customers leverage their existing IT investments in systems management software to monitor, identify, diagnose and repair end-to-end e-business problems.
About Keynote
Keynote Systems (Nasdaq "KEYN"), The Internet Performance Authority®, is the worldwide leader in Internet performance management services that improve the quality of e-business. Keynote's services enable corporate enterprises to benchmark, diagnose, test and manage their e-business systems both inside and outside the firewall. More than 2,400 corporate IT departments and 19,000 individual subscribers rely on the company's easy-to-use and cost-effective services to optimize revenues and reduce downtime costs without requiring additional complex and costly software implementations.
Keynote Systems, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California. The company can be reached at www.keynote.com or by phone in the U.S. at 650-403-2400.
© 2002 Keynote Systems. The Internet Performance Authority is a registered trademark. Transaction Perspective, Wireless Perspective, Data Pulse, Test Perspective, LoadPro, Red Alert and SNMP Adapter are trademarks of Keynote in the United States and/or other countries. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Editorial Contact:
Dan Berkowitz, Keynote, (650) 403-3305, dberkowitz@keynote.com