BigMachines.com Standardizes on Mercury Interactive Web Performance Solutions to Support Internet Sales Channel.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2000 BigMachines.com(tm), the definitive provider of eBusiness for Engineered Systems (EES See Skipjack algorithm. ), has selected Mercury Interactive For another company with a similar name, see Mercury Computer Systems. HP Mercury (formerly Mercury Interactive) is a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard that is a market leader in automated software quality assurance and offers products in other areas such as diagnostics, (Nasdaq:MERQ MERQ Mercury Interactive Corp (stock symbol) ) for its market-leading Web performance management solutions, including ActiveTest(TM), Mercury Interactive's hosted load testing Load testing is the process of creating demand on a system or device and measuring its response. In mechanical systems it refers to the testing of a system to certify it under the appropriate regulations (LOLER in the UK - Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment solution, and ActiveWatch(TM), Mercury Interactive's Web performance monitoring service, to help ensure the highest levels of performance and reliability. BigMachines.com develops and provides hosted Internet software applications for the online selling of complex products, such as industrial machinery. The BigMachines.com Internet Sales Channel(TM) is an end-to-end eBusiness suite, enabling large-scale equipment manufactures to sell their products online. BigMachines.com's customers include leading industrial machinery companies, such as KSB KSB Kogod School of Business (American University) KSB Kelley School of Business (Indiana University) KSB Kantonsschule Am Brühl St. AG (Europe's largest pump and valve manufacturer), Roper Industries and others. ActiveTest allows BigMachines.com to exercise it's B2B Web sites under heavy load, to get essential information needed to fix performance bottlenecks in the system before they impact customers. With round-the-clock monitoring by ActiveWatch, BigMachines.com helps ensure that their global suppliers and online clients reach a site that is operating at peak performance and is available 24 by 7. "Mercury Interactive's expertise combined with access to our global infrastructure allows customers, such as BigMachines.com, to quickly benefit from our Web performance management solutions without dedicated in-house personnel and hardware resources," said Diane Hagglund, director of product marketing for Mercury Interactive. "Our solutions enable eBusinesses to efficiently conduct business on-line and keep customers happy." "By using Mercury Interactive's hosted solutions we can further solidify our position as the leading provider of eBusiness for engineered systems for industrial machinery," said Larry Phillips, director of product marketing for BigMachines.com. "Mercury Interactive is superior in providing Web performance management solutions to help ensure customers enjoy a glitch-free, on-line experience. They were a natural choice for us." Mercury Interactive Hosted E-Services Mercury Interactive's ActiveTest, powered by LoadRunner(R), is the hosted Web-based load testing service that quickly conducts full-scale stress testing Determining the durability of a system by pushing it to its limits. Stress testing a network is performed by transmitting excessive numbers of packets or attempting to break in illegally. of Web sites. ActiveTest finds a site's bottlenecks and capacity constraints. From Mercury Interactive's load servers hosted at primary Tier 1 ISPs, using bandwidth of up to 4 GB/second, ActiveTest measures site response times by generating the load of virtual users that create the same Web site traffic as hundreds or thousands of individual human users. ActiveWatch, powered by Topaz(R), is a round-the-clock service that enables organizations to quickly and accurately measure their Web sites' user experience from various points across the globe. ActiveWatch enables companies to optimize user experience, protect revenue stream and become more competitive. The fully hosted e-service, monitors complex Web business processes with embedded security on a 24x7 basis and provides detailed transaction breakdown analysis reports. About BigMachines.com, Inc. and BigMachines.com AG As the leader in eBusiness for Engineered Systems (EES), BigMachines.com is revolutionizing the buying and selling of industrial machinery via the Internet, taking B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business commerce beyond commodities and standard catalog items. BigMachines.com provides Internet technology to select and configure industrial machinery based on engineering requirements integrated with an end-to-end eBusiness engine. BigMachines.com is a global company, incorporated in the U.S. as BigMachines.com Inc. and in Europe as BigMachines.com AG. The company has brought together a unique combination of Internet software developers and machinery engineers from around the world, with locations in Silicon Valley, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Chicago and Munich. BigMachines.com's customers are leading fluid machinery companies, including KSB AG, Europe's largest pump and valve manufacturer and ABEL Abel, son of Adam and Eve, in the Bible Abel, in the Bible, son of Adam and Eve, a shepherd, killed by his older brother, Cain; in the Gospel of St. Matthew, mentioned as the first martyr. Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Roper Industries (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ROP (1) (Raster Operation) An instruction that manipulates the bits of a bitmapped image in some manner. (2) (RISC Operation) An instruction in a RISC processor. ). BigMachines.com also has strategic alliances with leading technology companies, including Ariba, Inc. (Nasdaq:ARBA) and webMethods (Nasdaq:WEBM WEBM webMethods Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ). About Mercury Interactive Mercury Interactive is the leading provider of Web performance management solutions. The company's performance management products and hosted services are open and integrated to best test and monitor business-critical Web applications, helping customers deliver a positive user experience. More than 10,000 e-businesses, Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , Applications Service Providers, systems integrators, consultants, and other customers use Mercury Interactive solutions worldwide. Mercury Interactive is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and has 40 offices worldwide. The company can be reached at www.mercuryinteractive.com or by phone at U.S. +1.408.822.5200. BigMachines.com, the BigMachines.com logo and the BigMachines.com Internet Sales Channel are trademarks of BigMachines.com, Inc. All other product or service names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. LoadRunner and Topaz are registered trademarks, ActiveWatch and ActiveTest are trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation, Sunnyvale, California. BigMachines.com, the BigMachines.com logo and the BigMachines.com Internet Sales Channel are trademarks of BigMachines.com Inc. Product and company names are used herein for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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