Mercury and Singapore Management University Partner to Train Asia Pacific IT Professionals

- Mercury Donates Over US$1Million in Mercury Performance Center Software - Students Receive BTO Training to Help Them Become the Best Next-generation IT Professionals 


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 12  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ:MERQE), the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO) software, today announced that it has partnered with Singapore Management University (SMU) to help develop and train Asia Pacific's next generation of IT professionals.  The initiative includes Mercury's provision of over US$1Million worth of Mercury Performance Center(TM) software.  Additionally, Singapore Management University's School of Information Systems has developed a BTO training course for SMU graduating students to become better educated on the latest technology and business solutions.

With this initiative, SMU's School of Information Systems will teach students about application performance using a center of excellence approach. Students will learn how demand, project and resource management as well as risk mitigation are important when deploying mission-critical applications in today's business environment.  Ultimately, the course is designed to equip graduating students with knowledge and experience necessary to drive business outcomes from IT.

SMU deployed the recently announced Mercury Performance Center 8.1(TM), part of Mercury BTO Enterprise(TM), which comprises a new and enhanced set of Mercury application modules, a real-time dashboard and an enterprise foundation.  The software modules in Mercury Performance Center include Mercury LoadRunner(TM), Mercury Diagnostics(TM), Mercury Tuning(TM), Mercury Capacity Planning(TM), and Mercury Global Management(TM).

"Mercury Performance Center 8.1 is instrumental in helping our senior Business IT students prepare for designing and testing solutions for the real world," said Professor Steven Miller, dean, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University.  "SMU is delighted that our students are the first in Asia Pacific to use this advanced software as part of our Architectural Analysis course."

"The next generation of Asia Pacific IT professionals must be able to realize the connection between business outcomes and IT application performance in order to be a success, " said Mike New, country manager, South Asia region, Mercury.  "Training with Mercury products will help these students drive BTO initiatives and best practices when they graduate."

For the past 15 years, Mercury has helped thousands of customers optimize application quality and performance.  According to IDC, Mercury is the "uncontested leader" in application delivery with more than 58 percent market share, nearly three times that of any other vendor(1).  Mercury is positioned in the leader quadrant in Gartner Inc.'s "Application Quality Ecosystem, 2005: Leaders and Challengers.(2)"

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/ .

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted March 8, 2005 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission.  The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period.  It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner.  Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant.  The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action.  Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.  For more information on the Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Application Quality Ecosystem, 2005: Leaders and Challengers" please visit http://www.gartner.com/ .

Mercury, Mercury BTO Enterprise, Mercury Performance Center, Mercury LoadRunner, Mercury Diagnostics, Mercury Tuning, Mercury Capacity Planning, Mercury Global Management, and the Mercury logo are trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

  (1) IDC Worldwide Distributed Automated Software Quality Tools 2005-2009
      Forecast and 2004 Vendor Shares, July 26, 2005 ID 33771
  (2) Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Quality Ecosystem, 2005:
      Leaders and Challengers; March 8, 2005 ID G00124029



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