Compuware Corporation a premier single-source vendor, provides business value through software and services that optimize productivity and reduce the costs of distributed, web and enterprise applications.With our market-leading solutions, you can test every step in the application life cycle from defining requirements, debugging programming problems, executing functional, regression and load tests to profiling and predicting application performance before deployment. Compuware software solutions can be leveraged across the IT organization, further improving return on investment. Compuware founded in 1973, has nearly 10,000 employees in 100 offices worldwide. For more information visit us on the Web at www.compuware.com
The Empirix portfolio of Web test and monitoring solutions provides best-in-class solutions for testing and monitoring business-critical Web applications. We deliver automated software testing tools, as well as hosted services, providing the fastest, easiest to use, and most accurate means for functional/regression testing, load/scalability testing, monitoring, and test management for Web applications. Our total-life-cycle approach to Web testing allows you to begin testing Web applications early in the development process and continue testing and monitoring post-deployment. www.empirix.com
IBM's Global Test Organization
(GTO) provides a full range of testing solutions designed to evaluate and enhance software applications.These services help maintain stability, reduce costs, and improve productivity, allowing you to implement applications with confidence that they will perform as expected and be available when needed. The IBM logo is a registered trademark of IBM in the United States and other countries and used under license. IBM responsibility is limited to IBM products and services and is governed solely by the agreements under which such products and services are provided. www.ibm.com
Mercury Interactive The Global Leader in BTO Software. Mercury Interactive is the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO). Our suite of enterprise testing, production tuning, and performance management solutions enable companies to unlock the value of their IT investments by optimizing business and technology performance to meet business requirements.With Mercury Interactive, customers can measure the quality of their IT-enabled business processes, maximize technology and business performance at every stage of the application lifecycle, and manage their IT operations for continuous optimization throughout the lifecycle. Our leading-edge BTO solutions, complemented by technologies and services from our global business partners, are used by more than 30,000 customers – including 75% of the Fortune 500 – to improve quality, reduce costs, and align IT with business goals. www.mercuryinteractive.com
Rational Software provides a software development platform that improves the speed, quality, and predictability of software projects.This integrated, full lifecycle solution combines software engineering best practices, market-leading tools, and professional services. Ninety-eight of the Fortune 100 rely on Rational tools and services to build better software, faster. This open platform is extended by partners who provide more than 500 complementary products and services. Founded in 1981, Rational is one of the world's largest software companies, with revenues of $666.4 million in its twelve months ended June 30, 2002, and over 3,500 employees worldwide. Rational is a member of the S&P 500 Index and a component of the Nasdaq-100 Index®. Additional information is available at www.rational.com and www.therationaledge.com, the monthly e-zine for the Rational community.
Segue (NASDAQ: SEGU) is the world expert in delivering software and services that ensure the accuracy and performance of enterprise applications. Segue provides comprehensive scalability, performance, monitoring and verification solutions — all aimed at ensuring reliable and predictable outcomes for fundamental business processes. A technology innovator setting new standards for higher levels of application reliability, Segue helps companies reduce risk and increase their return on investment associated with deploying new applications. By ensuring the performance, accuracy, reliability, scalability, and usability of core business applications, Segue helps protect all that today's companies have at stake in IT and brand reputation investments. www.segue.com
Media Sponsors
Application Development Trends is written for application development managers who are building, buying and managing the applications that run the world's businesses. ADT is the one publication that top-tier I/S and A/D management go to month after month for a clear strategic overview of the full application development lifecycle and its impact on the business of the enterprise. www.adtmag.com
