The Home Depot Selects BoostWorks' BoostWeb to Accelerate The Last Mile for Online Store.Business Editors & High Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2001 BoostWorks Helps Leading Retailer Enhance Customer Experience With Superior Response Time, While Doubling Effective Network Capacity BoostWorks(TM) (www.boostworks.com), a leading provider of server-based solutions accelerating the delivery of web content and application data, today announced The Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box (R) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HD), the world's largest home improvement retailer, has purchased BoostWorks' flagship product BoostWeb(TM). The Home Depot is using BoostWeb for its high-volume online store, HomeDepot.com. The Home Depot deployed BoostWeb to improve response times for visitors to the site and to increase network efficiency. HomeDepot.com currently supports a variety of national online shopping and fulfillment experiences for millions of customers. Regional assortments of thousands of products, similar to those found in local Home Depot stores are combined with vast arrays of related product and project information to produce a compelling, personalized customer experience. Brad Albers, Director of IS at The Home Depot indicates, "Our customer-driven Internet strategy is comprehensively focused on all facets of a great web-based content delivery system from our enterprise class web site through to the last mile of the customer experience. We recognize that many of our customers have dial-up connections to their 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. and our online store. Great response times are invariably in·var·i·a·ble adj. Not changing or subject to change; constant. in·var  i·a·bil a critical component of any high quality online shopping
experience. BoostWeb is a major part of our strategy to provide a
responsive end-to-end customer experience. BoostWeb significantly
improved response times for customers connected to homedepot.com by
dial-up and helped optimize our network capacity while meeting our
requirements for scalability and robustness. I believe any web site
concerned about a positive visitor experience should consider
BoostWeb."
BoostWeb is a server-based software solution Accelerating the Last Mile(TM). BoostWeb recognizes the capabilities of the end-user agent and dynamically optimizes the web content for the fastest response time and interactivity with the site. The performance enhancements result from BoostWorks' patent-pending Intelligent Network Acceleration (INA Ina (ē`nä), city (1990 pop. 60,062), Nagano prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Tenryu River. It is an agricultural and industrial center with a famous agricultural school. (TM)) technology. Depending on the type of data and network speeds, BoostWeb reduces the size of the web content and application data by up to 95% and boosts the response time by up to 7 times. "BoostWeb was straightforward to install and completely transparent to our visitors. We have been very pleased with both BoostWorks and the BoostWeb product. BoostWeb has significantly improved our web site performance without requiring client software or a costly network upgrade," continues Albers. "We are delighted to be chosen by The Home Depot. Industry leading companies such as The Home Depot continue to validate BoostWorks as the standard for accelerating the delivery of web content," said Vincent Titolo, 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. of BoostWorks. To see how BoostWeb can improve your web response time, using any URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. , go to www.boostworks.com and access the free web performance evaluation Performance evaluation The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return test. BoostWorks will be exhibiting at JD Edwards Focus 2001 in Denver, June 11-13, and eBiz Networks in Burlingame, June 11-12. About The Home Depot Founded in 1978, The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement retailer with fiscal 2000 sales of $45.7 billion. At the close of fiscal 2000, The Home Depot operated 1,134 retail locations, including 1,029 Home Depot stores in the United States, 67 Home Depot stores in Canada and 7 Home Depot stores in South America. The company was recently named in the Top 10 Most Admired Companies in America by Fortune magazine, which has also ranked it as America's Most Admired Specialty Retailer for seven consecutive years. Its stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. (NYSE:HD) and is included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average Dow Jones Industrial Average The best known U.S. index of stocks. A price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue-chip stocks, primarily industrials including stocks that trade on the New York Stock Exchange. and Standard & Poor's 500 Index. About BoostWorks BoostWorks provides a suite of server-based solutions ensuring optimal performance in the "last mile" delivery of web content and applications. Its flagship product, BoostWeb, provides the most cost effective method of improving end-to-end network performance for any kind of network -- Internet, Intranet, or Extranet. BoostWorks is privately held and counts 300 enterprise, ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. , wireless, and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers worldwide. The Company is headquartered in San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] with offices in Europe and Asia. For further information, please visit BoostWorks' web site at www.boostworks.com. BoostWorks, BoostWeb, Accelerating the Last Mile and Intelligent Network Acceleration are trademarks of BoostWorks, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective companies. |
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