Visit Keynote at Booth #300
WEB 2.0 EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF., — April 23, 2008 — Keynote Systems (Nasdaq: KEYN), the global leader in on-demand mobile and Internet test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience, demonstrates today the company’s two flagship Web application performance test and measurement product offerings – Transaction Perspective®, Application Perspective® – and for the first time, the company’s newest product, Keynote Internet Testing Environment (KITE) at Web 2.0 Expo, Booth 300, April 23-25.
“In keeping with the spirit of Web 2.0 Expo’s “unconference,” Keynote invites Web developers and QA testers to visit its booth and see the first public demonstration of KITE and interact with our products team on the future of Web 2.0 application testing and performance monitoring tools,” said Vik Chaudhary, vice president of product management and corporate development at Keynote.
KITE enables Web developers and QA professionals to execute rapid performance analysis and validation from their desktop or Internet cloud to measure the end user experience of next generation Web 2.0 applications that include AJAX and asynchronously downloaded content with point and click ease. KITE bridges the gap between Web developers, QA testers and Web operations teams by embedding a version of Transaction Perspective and Application Perspective measurement software within the environment; the very same software that drives Keynote’s globally distributed network of measurement computers.
Keynote Transaction Perspective is the most accurate Web application performance measurement product on the market and utilizes an actual browser as the playback engine to measure and benchmark the end-to-end performance and availability of Web 2.0 applications including Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).
Application Perspective is a software-as-a-service and root cause diagnostics product for online applications that provides advanced emulated multi-browser support (e.g., Firefox, Safari, Camino, Opera), the ability to precisely measure response times and availability issues of complex Web sites by interpreting and executing JavaScript elements and enhanced parsing of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), as well as HTML and header capture, which assists the user with a visual diagnosis in the event of an error.
“In today’s increasingly complex Web environment, companies are recognizing both the value and need for consistent Web monitoring and testing tools that are as advanced as the technologies they test,” said Lisa Erickson-Harris, research director, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). “As companies grow increasingly dependent on their online presence, a single testing and measurement platform that allows developers to instantly test and measure the end user experience of Web 2.0 applications is a significant advance that supports today’s demanding and complex environment.”
The Right Solutions at the Right Price
Whether a customer is looking for high accuracy for competitive Web application benchmarking, a desktop-based rapid performance analysis tool or high frequency operational monitoring, Keynote offers a product/solution at the right price for all the applications a company needs to measure and monitor, from HTML and JavaScript-based Web applications, to highly interactive Web 2.0 applications that use Dynamic HTML, complex JavaScript, AJAX, or Flash. Pricing begins at $100 per page per month for monitoring site performance from 10 U.S. locations for Application Perspective, and $250 per page per month for Transaction Perspective. Pricing options for measuring over dial-up, broadband and 3G connections are also available. KITE is currently available for free download to current Keynote customers.
Availability
For more information about KITE and Keynote’s Web performance test and measurement solutions, please visit www.keynote.com/web_performance/overview.html.
About Keynote
Keynote Systems (Nasdaq “KEYN”) is the global leader in on-demand test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience. As an independent and trusted third-party, Keynote provides IT and marketing executives with an unbiased view into their Internet services from around the world. For over a decade, Keynote has been providing measurement data and testing capabilities that allow companies to understand and improve their customer’s online and mobile experience. Keynote has four test and measurement businesses: Web performance, mobile quality, streaming & VoIP, and customer experience/UX. In addition, Keynote’s industry analysis group called Keynote Competitive Research publishes proprietary studies measuring customer experience and service levels across a wide range of industries.
Known as The Mobile and Internet Performance Authority™, Keynote has a market-leading infrastructure of 2,400 measurement computers and mobile devices in over 240 locations around the world. Keynote also maintains one of the most representative panels of online users consisting of 160,000 consumers. Keynote’s on-demand, hassle-free infrastructure allows businesses to access services they need, when they need them to pinpoint and fix mobile quality and Internet problems before they impact customers.
Keynote helps over 2,600 corporate customers become “the best of the best” by helping them improve online business performance and mobile communications quality. Keynote’s customers represent top Internet and mobile companies including American Express, BP, Caterpillar, Dell, Disney, eBay, ESPN Mobile, E*TRADE, Expedia, FedEx, Microsoft, SonyEricsson, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and Vodafone.
Keynote Systems, Inc. is headquartered in San Mateo, California and can be reached at www.keynote.com or by phone in the U.S. at (650) 403-2400.
Keynote, The Internet Performance Authority, Perspective and Customer Experience Rankings are registered trademarks and The Mobile and Internet Performance Authority and True Experience are trademarks of Keynote Systems, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. © 2007 Keynote Systems, Inc.
Editorial Contacts:
Dan Berkowitz, Keynote Systems, (650) 403-3305, dan.berkowitz@keynote.com
Gloria Reiss, Keynote Systems, (831) 234-6100, Gloria@net-writer.com