Keynote Announces Transaction Perspective 5.0; Web Performance Measurement Bar Raised; Support for Today's Most Complex Transactions Including Web Services.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 8, 2003 Keynote Systems Keynote Systems, Inc. provides measurement and monitoring, service level and customer experience management services to customers to improve e-business performance by reducing costs, improving customer satisfaction and increasing profitability. (Nasdaq:KEYN), the global leader in Web performance management services, today announced Transaction Perspective(R) 5.0, a significant new and enhanced version of the leading outsourced service for Web performance measurement, monitoring, benchmarking, trending and analysis of an enterprise's most critical or 'money path' transactions from the end user perspective. The new version of Transaction Perspective provides increased value to customers requiring 24/7 assurance that their most important e-business transactions are performing optimally (measurement from up to 50 cites worldwide), and from tier one Internet backbones A group of communications networks managed by several commercial companies that provide the major high-speed links across the country. ISPs are either connected directly to these backbones or to a larger regional ISP that is connected to one. . No other Web transaction performance measurement or monitoring service The general surveillance of known air traffic movements by reference to a radar scope presentation or other means, for the purpose of passing advisory information concerning conflicting traffic or providing navigational assistance. comes close in terms of accuracy and realism of its measurements, error, alarm and diagnostic capabilities, breadth of geographic coverage and ability to measure the performance impact of today's most complex and advanced transactions on end users. The new release underscores Keynote's continued technology and marketing leadership in outsourced Web performance management services. Transaction Perspective 5.0 adds many important new features and functionality for measuring accurately, realistically and representatively the effect on end user performance and availability -- at an individual page, content and network component-level detail -- of multi-protocol transactions that incorporate the most sophisticated Web transaction programming techniques in use today including Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , Web DAV See WebDAV. , ActiveX, dynamic date/time support, file upload Transmitting a file from your computer to another computer. "File upload" is essentially the same term as "upload," because most of the time data are transmitted as a structural unit known as a "file." , XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and Flash 6.0 plug-ins and digital certificates. In addition to adding enhanced support for accurately and representatively measuring complex and secure transactions, the browser residing on Keynote's global infrastructure of transaction measurement computers has been upgraded to support Internet Explorer Microsoft's Web browser, which comes with Windows starting with Windows 98. Commonly called "IE," versions for Mac and Unix are also available. Internet Explorer is the most widely used Web browser on the market. It has also been the browser engine in AOL's Internet access software. 6.0, the dominant browser in use today. Marrying Keynote's existing single-threaded measurement computers together with support for Internet Explorer 6.0 and advanced plug-ins, brings customers the highest degree of accuracy and realism, or 'fidelity,' possible for their transaction measurements. As part of Transaction Perspective 5.0, users are provided with a new common transaction script recorder (see section below). "Our new Transaction Perspective 5.0 service underscores our industry leadership position in Web performance management services and provides our customers with the premier outsourced service for assuring and optimizing the quality of experience of their online applications from the only perspective that matters, the end user," said Arnold Waldstein, vice president of marketing and business development for Keynote. "Keynote is an innovative company that works diligently to anticipate and meet our needs," said Jay Brodsky, vice president, technology, Tribune Media Services Tribune Media Services ("TMS") is a syndication company owned by the Tribune Company. The company is divided into two divisions, "News and Features" and "Entertainment Products". . "TMS TMS Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (alternative medicine for depression) TMS Test Match Special (sports - cricket) TMS Texas Motor Speedway TMS Transportation Management System TMS Toyota Motor Sales uses Keynote's transaction measurements to continually improve the performance, connectivity, and uptime of our online products, including our new efforts in the Web services arena. TMS customers rely on the dependability of our Web sites and Web services, and Keynote data has been a valuable tool in assuring peak performance levels." "Keynote's transaction service provides us with an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand data stream to evaluate the performance of our Web-based services," said Ron Williams
New Common Transaction Script Recorder Transaction Perspective 5.0 includes a new common Web transaction script recorder that provides a single user interface, or 'look and feel,' for recording the individual pages of a transaction and then uploading that transaction to Keynote's global infrastructure of measurement computers. A common recorder allows users to become familiar with one easy-to-use user interface for all script development, whether for measurement, monitoring or 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 . For instance, a script initially developed for load testing using Keynote Test Perspective can be redeployed for ongoing site monitoring using Red Alert(TM) Performance Tracker (see separate press release issued today) or Transaction Perspective. And to allow for the easy creation of scripts that support advanced and 'intelligence-based' Web transactions, the common recorder now offers enhanced support for: customized conditionals, required and error text validations, Boolean logic for conditionals, dynamic dates management for script resiliency (also known as 'DHTML') and digital certificates for client authentication. Pricing and Availability Transaction Perspective 5.0 is priced starting at $1,295.00 per month (5 pages/10 cities), and will be available beginning August 15. About Keynote Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN), The Internet Performance Authority(R), is the global leader in Internet performance management and testing services that improve the quality of e-business. Keynote's services enable corporate enterprises to benchmark, diagnose, test and manage their e-business systems both inside and outside the firewall. Approximately 2,300 corporate IT departments and 16,000 individual subscribers rely on the company's easy-to-use and cost-effective services to optimize revenues and reduce downtime costs without requiring additional complex and costly software implementations. Keynote Systems, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. . The company can be reached at www.keynote.com or by phone in the U.S. at 650/403-2400. Keynote, Internet Performance Authority and Perspective are registered trademarks and Red Alert is a trademark of Keynote. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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