Mercury Announces Mercury Business Availability Center 6.0

- Unveils Major New Version of Mercury Business Availability Center



LAS VEGAS, Oct. 10  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today at Mercury World 2005, Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ:MERQE), the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO) software, announced Mercury Business Availability Center(TM) 6.0, a strategic part of Mercury BTO Enterprise(TM). This major new version of Mercury's application management optimization center helps customers manage applications from a business perspective, understand end-user experience, manage service levels, and map dependencies between applications and their supporting infrastructure.

"Mercury understands that users experience applications, not infrastructure," said Robin Purohit, vice president of application management products at Mercury. "The new version of Mercury Business Availability Center enables customers to leverage end user management and application mapping integrations to get more control and visibility over business-critical production applications.  Our new offerings also help IT service management teams identify and resolve problems in production before they impact business results."

Mercury Business Availability Center 6.0 is comprised of a new and enhanced set of Mercury application modules, a real-time business dashboard and an enterprise foundation. The software modules in Mercury Business Availability Center include Mercury End User Management(TM), Mercury Service Level Management(TM), Mercury Application Mapping(TM), and Mercury Diagnostics(TM).

New features and enhancements in Mercury Business Availability Center 6.0 include:

  * Updated real-time business dashboard provides up-to-date business
    service configuration and active drill down to application components;

  * New service-level manager wizard configures business and operational
    service level agreements (SLAs) for business service configuration;

  * New outage management capabilities helps to accurately factor scheduled
    maintenance into SLA reporting;

  * Enhanced end-to-end transaction tracing for composite applications helps
    break down transactions across multi-application J2EE and J2EE-to-SAP
    environments and correlate to end-user monitoring;

  * Enhanced real-user monitoring capabilities helps provide deep visibility
    into real-user behavior by identifying and isolating problems, helps set
    baselines and measure service levels, and captures error scenarios and
    workload for Mercury LoadRunner(R) test scripts; and

  * Enhanced change monitoring capabilities for business services can
    automatically detect hardware and software changes and help identify and
    resolve problems caused by unplanned changes.



"A focus on knowledge relating to the supporting applications is key for companies seeking to ensure optimal business performance and continuity," said Cameron Haight, research vice president at Gartner, Inc.  "With today's increasingly complex component- and service-oriented application infrastructures, the accuracy of this information is highly dependent upon the level of coordination across the primary stakeholders including business owners, application development, quality assurance, and IT operations."

Mercury Business Availability Center 6.0 is planned for release in November 2005 and will be delivered as an in-house deployment or through Mercury Managed Services(TM). For more information, please visit http://www.mercury.com/us/products/business-availability-center.

Mercury BTO Enterprise

Mercury BTO Enterprise is the industry's first integrated suite of business technology optimization (BTO) offerings designed to help customers optimize the business outcomes of IT. Mercury BTO Enterprise is comprised of new application change and performance lifecycle offerings as well as major new versions of Mercury IT Governance Center(TM), Mercury Quality Center(TM), Mercury Performance Center(TM), and Mercury Business Availability Center(TM).

ABOUT MERCURY

Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ:MERQE), 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/.

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve risks and uncertainties concerning Mercury's future product and service offerings. Mercury's actual product and service plans and results may differ materially from the forward- looking statements made by, or on behalf of, Mercury. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among other things: 1) the timing of the availability of Mercury products, services, product enhancements and service enhancements; 2) the failure of Mercury products, services, product enhancements and service enhancements to meet customers' expectations, needs or perform as described; 3) the dependence of Mercury's financial growth on the continued success and acceptance of its existing and new software products and services, and the success of its BTO strategy; 4) the ability to increase sales through our direct and indirect channels, as well as international sales; 5) intense competition for Mercury's products and services; and 6) the additional risks and important factors described in Mercury's SEC reports, including the Annual Report to Stockholders on Form 10-K for fiscal year ended December 31, 2004, and the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2005, which are available at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov/. All of the information in this press release is made as of the date of this press release, and Mercury undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements.

Mercury, Mercury BTO Enterprise, Mercury Business Availability Center, Mercury End User Management, Mercury Service Level Management, Mercury Application Mapping, Mercury Diagnostics, Mercury Managed Services, Mercury IT Governance Center, Mercury Quality Center, Mercury Performance Center, and the Mercury logo are trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

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