PeopleSoft Announces Expanded Agreements with Princeton Softech, Mercury Interactive and Quest Software.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Integrated Solutions for Application Lifecycle Management The administration and control of an application from inception to its demise. It embraces requirements management, system design, software development and configuration management and implies an integrated set of tools for developing and controlling the project. Enhance Total Ownership Experience PeopleSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq:PSFT PSFT PeopleSoft (stock symbol) PSFT Progressive Saturation Fourier Transform PSFT Prosoft-Technology, Inc ) today announced that it has expanded its technology agreements with Princeton Softech, Inc., Quest Software The computer-software manufacturer Quest Software (Quest Software, Inc.) (NASDAQ: QSFT), headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, dates from 1987. Quest develops, sells, and supports database management, Windows management, and application management software products (Nasdaq:QSFT), and 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) ). These lifecycle management technology leaders will provide PeopleSoft customers with increased visibility into performance across the entire applications lifecycle. "Increasingly, users are demanding that enterprise applications become a much better citizen in the application management community than they have been in the past," said Jeff Comport See COM port. , vice president and distinguished analyst, Gartner Research. "Users expect their choice of application and infrastructure management tools to be supported and enriched by the tools and telemetry telemetry Highly automated communications process by which data are collected from instruments located at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for measurement, monitoring, display, and recording. of their enterprise application vendors." Furthering its commitment to customer choice, PeopleSoft customers will now be able to choose their preferred vendor for Lifecycle Management solutions. Today's announcement will allow customers to select: --Princeton Softech Active Archive(TM) Solutions: This solution manages database growth by optimizing performance and maximizing existing enterprise storage capacity. Using Princeton Softech's Active Archive Solutions to separate essential data from nonessential non·es·sen·tial adj. Being a substance required for normal functioning but not needed in the diet because the body can synthesize it. data, companies can safely reduce the size of overloaded relational databases by more than 50 percent during an initial archive. --Quest Software Foglight(R): This solution provides a single point of access to quickly and proactively detect, diagnose and resolve performance issues. The solution also leverages information from the PeopleSoft Performance Monitor to present the user with aggregated performance response time metrics. --Mercury QuickTest Professional(TM), Mercury TestDirector(TM), and Mercury LoadRunner(R): These testing solutions will optimize quality, performance, and availability of enterprise applications. By maximizing application performance without investing in additional infrastructure, customers can quickly identify and resolve performance and availability problems lowering the total cost of ownership and helping ensure 24x7 availability and performance. "With the integration of our PeopleSoft and data archiving solutions, we have significantly improved insight into our own systems and can work more proactively," said Clifford Rizzo, vice president of corporate MIS, Volt Information Services See Information Systems. . "We have definitely been able to optimize service levels and the overall efficiency of our IT operations." "In order to reduce IT infrastructure and enterprise applications costs, customers need increased visibility into the application lifecycle," said Dean Alms ALMS. In its most extensive sense, this comprehends every species of relief bestowed upon the poor, and, therefore, including all charities. In a more, limited sense, it signifies what is given by public authority for the relief of the poor. Shelford on Mortmain, 802, note (x); 1 Dougl. , vice president of product management, PeopleSoft Tools & Technology. "Our deeper alliances with these certified Lifecycle Management providers will provide our customers a choice of integrated solutions for end-to-end application management." Partner Quotes "As data retention and compliance issues take the forefront, managing accelerated database growth and implementing effective storage solutions remain the most important enterprise IT challenges. With the focus on Information Lifecycle Management Information Lifecycle Management refers to a wide-ranging set of strategies for administering storage systems on computing devices. Specifically, four categories of storage strategies may be considered under the auspices of ILM. , the capabilities to safely archive and remove historical data from production databases, while providing easy access and low-cost storage alternatives are best practices," said Paul Winn, president and 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. , Princeton Softech. "Our PeopleSoft certified archiving solutions provide the integrated, cost-effective, and robust capabilities that PeopleSoft customers want as part of their lifecycle management strategy." "Throughout the entire application lifecycle, from development through production, the function of enterprise productivity tools is to assure availability of critical business data and systems," said Doug Merritt, senior vice president and general manager, application and database management solutions, Quest Software. "We support PeopleSoft's strong customer focus in creating combined solutions to offer the best infrastructure possible." "Mercury is committed to helping customers optimize the quality, performance and management of their PeopleSoft applications," said Harry Gould, vice president of alliances, Mercury. "Mercury enables customers to test and manage PeopleSoft applications from a business perspective and achieve their business technology optimization Business Technology Optimization (BTO), is an enterprise software product category focused on helping businesses ensure that every dollar invested in information technology, every resource allocated, and every application in development or production meets business goals. objectives." Customers can currently leverage PeopleSoft solutions with Princeton Softech Active Archive Solutions, Mercury QuickTest Professional, Mercury TestDirector, and Mercury LoadRunner. Customers will be able to leverage Quest Software Foglight with access to data from PeopleSoft Performance Monitor in Q1 2005. About PeopleSoft PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT) is the world's second largest provider of enterprise application software with 12,400 customers in more than 25 industries and 150 countries. For more information, visit us at www.peoplesoft.com. PeopleSoft is a registered trademark of PeopleSoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright (C) 2004 PeopleSoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Statements made in this press release that state the Company's or management's intentions, beliefs, expectations, or predictions for the future are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. . Readers are cautioned that these statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. Factors that may bear on the accuracy of these predictions include economic conditions in the U.S. and abroad, the ability to complete and deliver products and services within currently estimated time frames and budgets, market response to product announcements, and other risks referenced from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Please refer to the Company's periodic reports to shareholders (Forms 10-K and 10-Q) for more information on the risk factors that could cause actual results to differ. |
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