Mercury Business Availability Center Receives Best Software Award

Mercury Business Availability Center Receives Best Software Award

Earns Yphise AWARD as Best Application Performance Management Software

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ:MERQ), the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO), announced that it's Application Management offering, Mercury Business Availability Center(TM) has won the Yphise AWARD for best Application Performance Management Software. Yphise, a leading Information Technology (IT) research firm, conducted a comprehensive product evaluation and found that Mercury ranked highest among the competition. The annual Yphise AWARDS assess more than 150 software products in all areas of interest to large IT organizations and honor the market-leading solutions.

The assessment is based on Yphise's detailed list of requirements, including more than 300 technical or functional controls, which are designed to meet the needs of large organizations. This comprehensive product evaluation is the only distinction based on an ISO 9001:2000-certified comparative assessment of the software products. ISO 9001:2000 is the worldwide quality standard. It guarantees independence and focus on the key issues for large companies.

"Mercury Business Availability Center has strong features to master application service levels," said Xavier Benmoussa, analyst at Yphise Paris Labs. "This makes Mercury's application management software the indisputable recipient of the Yphise AWARD, the highest distinction for a software product."

To view the complete software assessment report of Mercury Business Availability Center, please visit http://www.yphise.com/award/MercuryApplicationManagement/certificate.pdf

Mercury Application Management

Mercury Application Management offerings help optimize the business availability and performance of mission-critical applications. Mercury Business Availability Center(TM) software and Mercury Managed Services help customers take a strategic, business-centric approach to managing applications in production. Mercury is one of the fastest growing application management companies in the business technology optimization market.

ABOUT MERCURY

Mercury Interactive, the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO), is committed to helping customers optimize the business value of information technology. Founded in 1989, Mercury conducts business worldwide and is one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies today. Mercury provides software and services to govern the priorities, people, and processes of IT; deliver and manage applications; and integrate IT strategy and execution. Customers worldwide rely on Mercury offerings to improve quality and performance of applications and manage IT costs, risks and compliance. Mercury BTO offerings are complemented by technologies and services from global business partners. For more information, please visit www.mercury.com .

ABOUT YPHISE

Yphise is an independent company that conducts ongoing research programs for IT Executives and Managers. Yphise has a dedicated research team in order to guarantee independence, consistent results and timely updates. Since 1985 in Europe and 1998 in North America, Yphise has been committed to providing the most relevant advice to assist large companies in measuring and improving IT efficiency. Yphise clients include over 900 major companies worldwide. They come from all sectors, including manufacturing, banking, insurance, retail sales, transportation, services and government. Yphise conducts two exclusive ongoing research programs: 1/ Yphise Business Risk Management (YBRM) and 2/ Yphise certification of software products. For more information, please visit www.yphise.com

NOTE: Mercury, Mercury Interactive, Mercury Business Availability Center and the Mercury logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other company, brand and product names are marks of their respective holders.


Source: Mercury Interactive Corporation

CONTACT: Erica Petersen, +1-650-603-5865, or epetersen@mercury.com; or
Kim Milosevich of OutCast Communications, +1-415-392-8282, or
kim@outcastpr.com, for Mercury

Web site: http://www.mercuryinteractive.com/


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