FINEGROUND INTRODUCES APPSCOPE PERFORMANCE MONITOR SOFTWARE.

FineGround Networks, Inc., has introduced its AppScope Performance Monitor software. This cost-effective application monitoring solution measures actual end-user response times of any web application, to provide early warning and analysis of application performance degradation. With the addition of AppScope to the FineGround Performance Suite IT managers have the ability to detect and correct complex application performance issues in real-time, maximizing performance and availability of mission-critical business applications.

Enterprises have invested millions of dollars in web applications such as e-business, CRM, ERP, Collaboration and others. The business impact of these applications depends strongly on their adoption by employees and customers. In turn, the adoption rate of the applications depends on the performance of the applications. FineGround Networks uniquely addresses the performance and monitoring issues of enterprises in a cost-effective, scalable software suite solution. The FineGround Performance Suite addresses two critical areas of performance management: application performance optimization via the FineGround Condenser, and end-user experience monitoring via FineGround AppScope.

FineGround's AppScope allows IT managers to track end-user response times segmented into network latency delays, network bandwidth delays, and back-end server delays. The software enables managers to analyze application response times for internal users, external users, over various time intervals, locations etc. This end-to-end view helps characterize performance problems and accelerates problem resolution for enterprises.

"Infrastructure and application monitoring is shifting from an agent-based approach to an agentless one," said Corey Ferengul, vice president & principal analyst operations strategies at META Group. "Agentless holds a promise of cheaper, easier to maintain monitoring technology. Due to significant cost savings IT groups should consider agentless monitoring technology for select infrastructure and applications."

With its end-to-end approach, AppScope has the following capabilities:

-- Monitor application performance for live users on live transactions

-- Work with FineGround's Condenser Application Acceleration software to optimize applications in corrective action

-- Collect and reports detailed usage and diagnostic data

-- Isolate response-time problems to specific applications or networks

-- Validate and analyzes the end user's performance experience

-- Monitor and report application performance enabling enterprises to meet service-level objectives

FineGround's AppScope and Condenser are both available for a free 30-day trial at http://www.fineground.com.

About FineGround Networks

FineGround Networks provides a software suite that transparently monitors and optimizes performance of enterprise application infrastructure. FineGround enables enterprises to unlock the value of their IT investment by providing optimized performance of critical business applications. The end-to-end performance optimization and monitoring solutions require no changes to the applications, servers or network. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Factset Research, Sun Microsystems, Walgreens, Whirlpool Corporation and many more are improving their web-based application performance utilizing FineGround's solutions. Backed by New Enterprise Associates, Worldview Technology Partners and private investors, the FineGround team is headquartered in Campbell, California.

FineGround Networks can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.fineground.com/ .

For more information, call 408/376-0570, ext. 121.