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Overview: Mercury is the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO). We have a simple and powerful commitment: to help our customers optimize the business value of IT.
Mercury is one of the largest and fastest growing enterprise software companies in the world. Nearly 90-percent of Fortune 100 companies, and dozens of government agencies globally rely on Mercury to fulfill their BTO strategies. We have over one billion U.S. dollars in cash, are a NASDAQ 100 company, and are part of the Standard & Poors 500. Founded in 1989, Mercury conducts business in more than 35 countries and has been a public traded company for over 10 years.
Mercury began shipping software quality testing products in 1991. Since then, we have introduced a variety of software and services for BTO, including offerings in application delivery (pre-production quality and performance testing), application management (in-production application performance monitoring and management) and, following the acquisition of Kintana, Inc. in August 2003, a family of IT governance offerings.
Our BTO offerings for application delivery, application management, and IT governance help customers maximize the business value of IT by optimizing application quality, performance, and availability as well as managing IT costs, risks, and compliance.
In recognition of the company's outstanding track record, Forbes Magazine named Mercury CEO, Amnon Landan Entrepreneur of the Year for 2003.
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Solutions offered by Mercury.
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HP TestDirector for Quality Center software by Mercury.
HP TestDirector for Quality Center software drives a more effective and efficient global application testing process, supporting high levels of communication and collaboration among distributed testing teams. TestDirector becomes the central point of control, storing information about application requirements, tests and defects in a repository.
LoadRunner by Mercury.
LoadRunner is a load testing tool that predicts system behavior and performance. It exercises your entire enterprise infrastructure by emulating thousands of users and employs performance monitors to identify and isolate problems. By using LoadRunner, you can minimize testing cycles, optimize performance, and accelerate deployment.
QuickTest Professional by Mercury.
QuickTest Professional provides the industry's best solution for functional and regression test automation for practically every software application and environment.
SiteScope by Mercury.
SiteScope continuously monitors the performance of a company's business critical distributed systems—including networks, operating systems, Web sites and applications —and sends alerts when problems are detected.
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Research offered by Mercury
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Best Practices for Implementing Automated Functional Testing Solutions by Mercury. April 2007 - This paper presents a brief overview of the advantages of automating functional testing and helps you structure your thinking about how best to approach test automation.
Business Transaction Management: Another Step in the Evolution of IT Management by Mercury. March 2008 - This IDC study offers an understanding of the changes and challenges facing vendors in the technology field. The data and analysis are based on primary information sourced from interviews with the leading vendors, start-up companies, incubators, venture capital firms, customers and academic experts.
Fighting Fire with Fire: Five Strategies to Enable Business Change in IT Operations by Mercury. December 2007 - Change is occurring in IT people, processes and technology. Like all departments, IT operations must step up to meet change with change of its own, and often with little or no additional budget. This paper looks at the current business challenges that impact IT and five strategies you can use to meet your organization’s changing business needs.
Five Key Strategies for Successful Customer CMDB Implementations by Mercury. December 2007 - HP provides a powerful CMDB that is built on advanced automated discovery and dependency mapping technology. The HP solution also tracks IT infrastructure changes that threaten business service performance. This white paper is based on lessons learned at HP customer engagements and provides a six-step approach to successful CMDB deployment and ROI.
Four Starting Points For Effective IT Project And Portfolio Management by Mercury. October 2006 - This paper provides new insights into the root causes of IT project failures and misalignment with business unit expectations, along with possible solutions. It illustrates the path to optimized project & portfolio management from four different starting points, and provides step-by-step advice to help you reach new milestones quickly.
Gartner Report: Technical Approaches to and Considerations for SOA Governance by Mercury. October 2006 - This whitepaper examines Gartner's three linked requirements for effective SOA governance: SOA testing and validation, SOA Registry-Repository and SOA policy management; and purchase recommendations for governance technologies that address SOA's multiple life cycles.
How to Transform IT into a Strategic Business Partner by Mercury. March 2008 - This white paper focuses on the concept of business service management (BSM) and offers a path toward more effective IT/business alignment. BSM is an approach to focusing the efforts of IT operations on business outcomes. The idea is that IT acts as a fully engaged strategic partner taking actions to help the overall business achieve its goals.
HP Business Service Management eBook by Mercury. April 2008 - According to research by HP, 99 percent of chief executive officers (CEO's) say information technology (IT) is essential to business competitiveness, but only 31 percent of chief information officers (CIO's) believe IT is sufficiently aligned with business objectives and strategy.
HP Customer Perspective: Best Practices for Implementing HP Quality Center software by Mercury. June 2007 - Even if your company has purchased the right tools, those tools may be unused because the implementation process has not been clearly defined or agreed upon. This paper offers a structured approach to planning and implementing HP Quality Center, an integrated, web-based suite of tools and best practices for automated software quality testing.
HP Customer Perspective: How to Automate Testing - without Aggravating Testers by Mercury. July 2007 - This paper gives practical advice about how to integrate automation into testing processes - without alienating your testing team. Examine how to divide up the tasks and responsibilities, how to get training and assistance from vendors, how to integrate automation testing within product lines, and how to prove the benefits of automation.
HP Customer Perspective: HP LoadRunner software – Tips and Tricks for Configuration, Scripting, and Execution by Mercury. May 2007 - This QuickStart Guide provides tips and tricks for HP LoadRunner configuration, scripting, and execution. This guide is intended to help testers just learning to use HP LoadRunner, as well as to provide new best practices for those who have used HP LoadRunner for many years.
HP Customer Perspective: Optimizing Manual Testing with HP Business Process Testing software by Mercury. April 2007 - This paper provides an overview of the product and how we use it, along with practical advice for those who are considering HP Business Process Testing software for optimizing their own manual processes or moving toward test automation.
ITIL Best Practices for IT and Business Alignment by Mercury. August 2006 - Digitization is ultimately required to make business and IT processes repeatable and enforceable, and Mercury's Business Technology Optimization (BTO) solutions are uniquely positioned to help organizations successfully implement and enhance the guiding principals of ITIL.
Leveraging Agent and Agentless Technology for Effective Operations Management by Mercury. April 2007 - In this paper, Enterprise Management Associates examines the benefits of using agent-based and agentless technologies to monitor infrastructure performance and availability. EMA believes that a combination of both approaches can help companies leverage the efficiencies of agentless solutions and maximize the gains of appropriately placed agents.
Network Lifecycle Management: A Solution Approach to Managing Networks by Mercury. December 2007 - Today, business priorities are driving the operational requirements for Network Operations teams. This paper focuses on how network engineering and operations teams can achieve operational objectives. It begins with a review of some of the challenges and hurdles blocking these objectives. Then it provides a discussion of best practice approaches.
Pillars of Application Quality: Security, Functional and Performance Testing by Mercury. December 2007 - Far too many organizations treat security as an afterthought as opposed to being integrated throughout the development process. In addition, most developers and QA professionals do not consider themselves responsible for application security—assuming that security will be managed while the application is live.
Transforming Business: HP SOA: Optimize the Business Outcome of SOA by Mercury. December 2007 - Today’s enterprises are reliant on IT to drive business value. The competitive landscape is causing a demand for increased business agility. IT is responding by embracing SOA. This paper explains that to successfully adopt SOA and achieve the benefits promised, companies need to adopt new processes around governance, development and operation.
Zapthink: The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance Timeline by Mercury. June 2007 - With its acquisition of Mercury & its Systinet division, HP has propelled itself into a leadership position in the SOA governance space. For organizations who are ramping up their SOA initiatives, HP Systinet and the rest of the HP Business Technology Optimization BTO for SOA Strategy can assist in what ZapThink calls SOA governance in the narrow.
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