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    Mercury Interactive tunes complex systems

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    Paula Musich
    Published January 19, 2002
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      Mercury Interactive Corp. on Monday will announce a new performance tuning service for complex production systems and a set of best-load-testing practices designed into new consulting services.

      The Sunnyvale, Calif., vendor created the ActiveTune service to help clients optimize the performance of their complex, multi-tiered production systems.

      The new service leverages Mercury Interactives professional services experience and the knowledge gathered through its ActiveTest service to get to the source of the thorniest performance problems and provide more proactive tuning in a real-world setting. “Well uncover and remove problems they may not have seen, or that contributed to problems that were hard to find. And we find the needle in the haystack,” described David Gehringer, director of product marketing.

      Mercury Interactive performance tuning experts believe that as much as much as 70 percent of a sites performance problems can be resolved through tuning.

      “The need for external testing became fairly apparent as our site got more and more complex,” said Barry Weber, vice president of technical infrastructure at Barnes&Noble.com LLC in New York. “The only way to accurately build a valid test model is to use the site. Maintaining a test environment for large-scale, complex tests is untenable. We turned to Mercury to insure we did a valid test.”

      The tests take into account all of the components of the sites architecture, officials said. Testing starts with the infrastructure, looking at routers, load balancers and so on. The tests then move onto the application and ends with the security system.

      ActiveTune is available immediately starting at $35,000 for a three-month term and unlimited engagements.

      Mercury Interactive also has created a set of best-testing practices, called the Application Risk Management Model (ARMM), that provides a method for evaluating the effectiveness of an enterprises existing quality assurance practices and helps guide users through the steps that can lead to improved application quality.

      Deliverables in the ARMM include reference materials distributed through a Web portal. The materials go over metrics users should look for, when testing starts, and so on. As a part of ARMM, Mercury Interactive also offers a three-day training course designed to help project managers insure that their subordinates are using the tools correctly. ARMM also includes a professional services package.

      The ARMM portal is free. The training class is $2,495, and consulting services are $3000 a day. All three are available next week.

      Paula Musich
      Paula Musich

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