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SAN MATEO, California — October 16, 2002 — Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN) announced today that its Transaction Perspective™ benchmarking service earned a four star rating in a review published in the current issue of New Architect Magazine. The story appearing in the November issue tested Keynote Transaction Perspective 4.0 and states that in today's ROI driven economy, Web site problems must be "resolved quickly and transparently," and that Keynote's measurement computers, which are globally distributed on major Internet backbones create "a realistic test bed of potential site visitors."
New Architect continues, "application testing solutions often occur in an unrealistic context without accounting for the Internet backbone issues with which any live site must contend." New Architect (formerly Web Techniques) focuses on the Internet technologies that help organizations achieve their e-business goals. (http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=2454/na1102o/index.html).
The article notes, "if you want a deep, long term understanding of your site performance, Keynote offers benchmarking services to measure your site's speed and reliability, over time, against your competitors."
The review recognized that, "as a completely hosted service, there's no software to install or server-side code to integrate into your existing pages. You merely specify the site to be measured, and Keynote's distributed computers handle the rest," and that "using the service is very intuitive and easy"
"Customers are becoming more concerned with the business value of their operations and demanding greater value in terms of diagnostics, results and return on investment. Once again, Keynote has been given high praise by an independent journal and recognized as the leader in Web site performance benchmarking," said Arnold Waldstein, vice president of marketing and business development for Keynote. "In a challenging economy it is more critical than ever to assure high performance for your e-business applications, and we are gratified that New Architect has recognized the value, accuracy and ease of use of Keynote services."
Transaction Perspective 4.0 confirms Keynote's commitment to deliver on its strategy of Total Performance Management (TPM) introduced at GIPC West in June 2002, and underscores Keynote's leadership position as the benchmarking leader with over 80% market share. TPM is comprised of solutions delivered by Keynote and KeyPartners for benchmarking, diagnosing, testing and managing the end-to-end performance of e-business applications and systems.
Keynote's ‘Total Performance Management' solutions and services-based approach enables customers to leverage existing management software, increase the number of satisfied customers, reduce unnecessary capital expenditures, gain competitive advantage and deliver an optimal quality of experience to end users.
About Transaction Perspective
Keynote Transaction Perspective™ is a cost-effective, completely outsourced way to detect and diagnose transaction-related problems before they get in the way of your business goals. Leveraging the world's largest geographically distributed infrastructure of measurement computers, Transaction Perspective provides enterprises with the accurate and timely information they need to compare and trend transaction performance; enforce Service Level Agreements (SLAs); and detect, diagnose and repair end-to-end performance problems in their e-business infrastructure.
Pricing and Availability
Keynote Transaction Perspective 4.0 starts at $1295 per month and is available immediately.
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 18,000 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 and KeyPartners are trademarks of Keynote in the United States and/or other countries. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Contact:
Della Lowe, Keynote Systems, (650) 403-3233, dlowe@keynote.com