Industry Leaders Support Mercury BTO Enterprise

BearingPoint, EDS, Oracle, SAP AG, Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro Are Among the Partners Broadening Scope of BTO Offerings 


LAS VEGAS, Oct. 11  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today at Mercury World 2005, Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ:MERQE), the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO) software, announced that market leaders in software, system integration and outsourcing are supporting Mercury BTO Enterprise(TM). Mercury BTO Enterprise is the industry's first integrated suite of BTO offerings designed to help customers optimize the business outcomes of IT. BearingPoint, EDS, Oracle, SAP AG, Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro, among others, provide products, services and industry expertise to extend Mercury BTO Enterprise.

Over the past several years, hundreds of partners have joined Mercury in helping customers work in an automated and integrated manner to produce predictable business results from IT. Industry leaders supporting the recently announced Mercury BTO Enterprise include:  Acquity Group, Advanced Technology Solutions LLC, Applimation Inc., BearingPoint, Birlasoft, Borland, BusinessEdge Solutions, CollabNet, EDS, Flashline, Genilogix, IQ Services, Mentora Group, Mindtree Consulting, Netli Inc., NetScout Systems, Netuitive Inc., Oracle, Peregrine Systems, PowerTest, Prolify Inc., ResultsPositive Incorporated, SAP AG, Siebel, Sierra Atlantic, Sky IT Group, Sofea Inc., Software Quality Solutions (SQS), Solstice Software, Spectrum Solutions Inc., SPI Dynamics, Tata Consultancy Services, Technisource, Total Resource Management, Utopia Solutions, VMware, Watchfire and Wipro.

"IT organizations today need to ensure that their activities are focused on maximizing business value and delivering business results," said Darcy Moss, director, Applications Development Services, EDS. "Enterprises and government agencies worldwide rely on the combined offerings of EDS and Mercury BTO Enterprise to align IT with business priorities, manage change, and reduce costs and risks."

"To date, over 1,000 Oracle customers have used Mercury BTO offerings to deploy, upgrade, and maintain their Oracle(R) E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne implementations," said Richard Sarwal, vice president, Server Applied Technologies, Oracle. "Oracle Fusion Middleware's technology allows IT to spend less time on integration problems and more time aligning to meet the needs of the businesses. We look forward to working with Mercury to help our mutual customers optimize the business outcomes of IT."

"For many years we have worked with Mercury to help our mutual customers utilize BTO software to further optimize the quality, performance and scalability of their SAP(R) solutions and to help ensure the business outcomes of their deployments of those solutions," said Ross Wainwright, senior vice president of consulting, SAP America, Inc. "Mercury's adoption of SAP NetWeaver(R) and SAP's Enterprise Services Architecture is helping companies to create more flexible business processes and to align business process requirements with IT realities."

  Partners announcing their support for Mercury BTO Enterprise include:

  -- Global system integrators and outsourcers that provide services using
     Mercury BTO software and offer a comprehensive range of IT services to
     clients in diverse industries such as banking and financial services,
     insurance, manufacturing, telecommunications, retail, transportation,
     and the public sector;
  -- National and regional solutions partners that provide customers with
     services that interoperate with Mercury IT Governance, Application
     Delivery and Application Management products; and
  -- Technology partners that develop specific software products to
     interoperate with Mercury BTO Enterprise offerings. Their complementary
     technologies span a wide range of categories including application
     security, database, CRM, data management, ERP, help desk, IT
     infrastructure, system and network management applications, and version
     control.



"We are proud that so many industry leaders are supporting Mercury BTO Enterprise," said Harry Gould, vice president of alliances at Mercury. "Mercury is committed to working with partners to help our customers optimize the business outcomes of IT."

ABOUT MERCURY

Mercury Interactive Corporation, the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO) software, is committed to helping customers optimize the business value of information technology. Founded in 1989, Mercury conducts business worldwide and is one of the largest enterprise software companies today. Mercury provides software and services for IT Governance, Application Delivery, and Application Management. Customers worldwide rely on Mercury offerings to govern the priorities, processes and people of IT and test and manage the quality and performance of business-critical applications. Mercury BTO offerings are complemented by technologies and services from global business partners. For more information, please visit http://www.mercury.com/.

NOTE:  Mercury, Mercury BTO Enterprise and the Mercury logo are trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

Oracle, JD Edwards, and PeopleSoft are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates.

SAP, SAP NetWeaver and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries all over the world.

All other company, brand and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. 

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