CommerceQuest's e-Adapter MQ Tester Provides the First Load Testing Solution For IBM MQSeries; Load Tests Enterprise MQSeries-based Applications.Business Editors TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 21, 1999 CommerceQuest, a Tampa, Fla.-based provider of industrial-strength business-to-business (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 ) infrastructure solutions for e-business, today announced e-Adapter MQ Tester, an add-on product to Mercury Interactive's (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : MERQ MERQ Mercury Interactive Corp (stock symbol) ) 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 tool, LoadRunner(R). With e-Adapter MQ Tester, customers can, for the first time, predict system behavior and performance for companies using IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) MQSeries middleware. Together LoadRunner and e-Adapter MQ Tester will exercise an entire enterprise infrastructure by emulating thousands of users to isolate performance bottlenecks and to determine application scalability and system capacity limitations. "We've been doing enterprise application integration for over five years with IBM MQSeries," said Colin Osborne, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , CommerceQuest. "We've taken that experience and built it into e-Adapter MQ Tester, coupling it with LoadRunner, the market's leading enterprise load testing solution. We expect to extend it even further to test e-business infrastructures as business drivers dictate." CommerceQuest, a participant in Mercury Interactive's Open Test Architecture(TM) program, developed e-Adapter MQ Tester using the open API in LoadRunner. "Partners such as CommerceQuest, working with Mercury Interactive's open API, make it possible to extend LoadRunner's support to additional environments," said Simon Berman, senior product marketing manager at Mercury Interactive. "Add-on products, such as e-Adapter MQ Tester, enable our customers to more effectively identify and resolve problems during the testing process." e-Adapter MQ Tester allows companies to reproduce the effect of thousands of users on the system without having thousands of users present to test, making it an important tool for capacity planning. The solution accurately predicts the behavior and performance of MQSeries-based systems under actual user loads. The e-Adapter MQ Tester uses the MQI MQI Message Queue Interface MQI MQseries Integrator MQI Quincy, Massachusetts MQI Manufacturing Quality Instruction API to record all function calls from the MQSeries application, then generates a test script, and duplicates it to magnify mag·ni·fy v. To increase the apparent size of, especially with a lens. the load. Pricing and Availability e-Adapter MQ Tester will be distributed by CommerceQuest, Inc. and its authorized distributors. The product is expected to be available in February 2000. Pricing can be obtained by contacting CommerceQuest sales at 813-903-3000 or by email to sales@CommerceQuest.com. About e-Adapter Suite - EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. software e-Adapter, a core component of enableNet, manages the exchange and seamless integration of critical business information. It enables application-to-application integration - regardless of data content - across all major computer platforms and network protocols. It uses and enhances MQSeries, IBM's market-leading business integration product. e-Adapter offers immediate ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). by: -- eliminating application change; -- providing assured information delivery; and -- laying the foundation for industrial-strength integration. About LoadRunner Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner is a load testing tool that predicts system behavior and performance. It exercises an entire enterprise infrastructure by emulating thousands of users to identify and isolate problems. In addition, LoadRunner's integrated real-time monitors enable organizations to minimize test cycles, optimize performance and accelerate deployment. About CommerceQuest CommerceQuest provides B2B and enterprise integration solutions for mission-critical business processes. The Company's infrastructure solutions are used by Global 2000 and Internet market maker companies to integrate business applications seamlessly, rapidly and reliably, across geographically and technologically diverse boundaries. Customers include Baxter Healthcare, Chase Manhattan Bank The Chase Manhattan Bank, now part of JPMorgan Chase, was formed by the merger of the Chase National Bank and the Bank of the Manhattan Company in 1955. The bank is headquartered in New York City. , CIBA Vision, Cintas, e-Chemicals, FedEx, Lucent Technologies, and Wal-Mart. CommerceQuest is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with headquarters in Tampa, Florida, branch offices across the United States, and offices in Australia, Europe, and South Africa. The company is a portfolio member and infrastructure services provider within the Internet Capital Group (Nasdaq: ICGE). For more information, please contact CommerceQuest in the United States at +1-813-903-3000, or visit us on the World Wide Web at http://www.CommerceQuest.com. CommerceQuest, e-Adapter and enableNet are registered trademarks of CommerceQuest. (c)1999 Mercury Interactive Corporation, Sunnyvale, Calif., LoadRunner, is a registered trademark of Mercury Interactive Corporation, Sunnyvale, California. Product and company names are used herein for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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