Agilent Technologies Firehunter/e-Commerce Wins eWEEK's Best New Product of 2000 Award.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2001 Internet Service Assurance Solution Earns Top Honor in E-Commerce Management and Analysis Category Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :A), a leading provider of innovative technologies for communications and life sciences, today announced that Agilent Firehunter/e-Commerce has been named the best new product of 2000 in the E-Commerce Management and Analysis category of eWEEK's first "eXcellence Awards" program. The product was among 21 winners selected from nearly 1,000 entries submitted by more than 600 companies. Firehunter/e-Commerce provides the industry's first solution for continuous real-time monitoring and reporting on e-commerce site performance and compliance with service level agreements. The product's monitoring capabilities include synthetic transactions that repeatedly test both the user's experience with the commerce application and the component services managed by institutions that host ISPs do not control, such as catalog look-up, credit verification and debiting, and ordering. The application provides information on site availability, sales rate in dollars per minute, the time required for credit verification, peak business periods, the impact of peak usage on performance, and a variety of other metrics that offer a real-time view of typical Web site activities. It supplies independent corroboration of real-time business performance, including normal performance baselines and alerting thresholds. "Hosting services and ASPs have become a more common method for e-commerce transactions, but have left businesses unclear on the level of service they were receiving," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. eWEEK. "Firehunter/e-Commerce provides that clarity." All products in the eWEEK competition were evaluated by a panel of judges Panel of Judges is an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia. Members
eWEEK is donating the competition's entry fees to the Starlight Children's Foundation. The awards program raised $65,000 for the charity's PC Pal program, which provides mobile personal computers for use by hospitalized children to link with cyberspace for educational, entertainment and communication opportunities. For more information on Firehunter, visit www.firehunter.com. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. With 48,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries, Agilent had net revenue of $10.8 billion in fiscal year 2000. Information about Agilent can be found on the Web at www.agilent.com. Note to Editors: Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, . |
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