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- Reducing the Time, Cost, and Risk of Business Application Projects
- Investments in mission-critical ERP/CRM applications mean nothing if the software can't deliver what the business needs. Read how Mercury can help IT professionals control risk and predict with confidence that their ERP/CRM application will meet the highest business requirements.
- Tags: Business Application, ERP, Mercury Interactive Corp., CRM, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software, Marketing
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Business Perspective Management: Managing IT Operations within a Business Context
- This paper will describe the evolution of the BPM market, beginning with IT legacies and challenges, progressing to an overview of BPM fundamentals, and followed by a discussion of the challenges, myths, facts, and business reasons why enterprises should adopt BPM now, and key success factors to consider when undertaking...
- Tags: BPM, Information Technology, Mercury Interactive Corp., Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Best Practices for Testing Your eBusiness Applications
- Today's eBusinesss application requires 24x7 availability and unlimited scalability. Organizations need to ensure that their application investments will meet the performance, functionality, and reliability demands of both their end users and customers, while dealing with accelerated implementation timelines and decreased budgets. As a result of these factors, testing has become...
- Tags: Mercury Computer Systems Inc., E-business Application, Best Practice, Mercury Interactive Corp., E-business/E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software
- Webcasts 2002-12-22
- Optimizing IT - Linde Gas and Mercury
- Linde Gas AG is listed in the DAX index of Germany's 30 top blue-chip companies. In the past, the industrial gas producer's platform administrators had only used the Transport Management System TMS supplied with SAP R/3 software for this task. There was no end-to-end workflow to govern the countless handovers...
- Tags: Information Technology, Mercury Interactive Corp., Mercury Change Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Microsoft Windows, Process Improvement, Telecom & Utilities, Operating Systems, Enterprise Software, Software, Quality, Business Operations
- Case studies
- Shorten Your 11i Patching Cycles With Oracle Software Release Management
- Learn how Mercury and Oracle are partnering to help customers minimize disruption and reduce costs from patching and upgrading their Oracle 11i applications. Oracle's Software Release Management SRM service provides a planning and testing service designed to reduce risks and decrease time associated with maintaining your 11i applications. The Software...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle11i, Mercury Interactive Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts
- Monash University Expedites SAP Implementation With Testing Tools From Mercury
- Monash University is Australia's largest university with 40,000 students and 5,000 staff at multiple campuses. The challenge faced by Monash University was to ensure a new SAP R/3 Integrated Administrative System would perform reliably and effectively with only two months available for testing. Monash University has ensured a successful outcome...
- Tags: Monash University, SAP AG, Mercury Interactive Corp., Tool, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Mercury Interactive Case Study: Abbey National plc
- Abbey is one of the largest banks in the UK, offering a wide range of personal financial services to 18 million customers. With 18 million customers, Abbey faced a major challenge to ensure the business reaped the benefits of this substantial change program. Abbey turned to Mercury Outsourced Performance Validation...
- Tags: Mercury Interactive Corp., Abbey, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Finance, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Mercury Interactive Case Study: University at Albany
- The University at Albany was established in 1844 and designated a University Center of the State University of New York in 1962. The University at Albany was ready to go live with a new PeopleSoft application for online student registration. The main concern was ensuring the system could handle user...
- Tags: Albany, Mercury Interactive Corp., Mercury LoadRunner, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Operational Accounting, Team Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Management
- Case studies
- Stress Test Tools Ensure Smooth SAP Installation at BOC
- Founded over a hundred years ago, BOC's core business is the production of oxygen, nitrogen and specialist gases used in hospitals and industry, as well as home respiratory systems and, of course, for pulling pints in the local pub. The business driver for implementing a new ERP system was the...
- Tags: ERP System, SAP AG, ERP, Mercury Interactive Corp., Tool, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Automated Load Tests Ensure SAP R/3 Reliability, Performance for Texaco (UK) Ltd.
- Texaco (U.K.) Ltd. is the fourth largest gasoline retailer in the U.K. and ranks among the top 10 oil producers in the North Sea. The challenge was how to ensure that a new SAP R/3 exploration and production ("upstream") system in multiple locations throughout the U.K. would perform reliably and...
- Tags: Performance, SAP R/3, SAP AG, U.K., Mercury Interactive Corp., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- Entellium's lost millions
- Larry Dignan outlines the main points of the Entellium fraud. Regardless of the final outcome, there are three glaring questions: How did the CFO and CEO overstate revenues across THREE financial years by a factor of four to five times without someone noticing the obvious problem of...
- Tags: Entellium, Board, Compliance, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'
- I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but when do we get to actually see them? Microsoft has recently kicked forward their Software+Services, which for...
- Tags: Tablet PC, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Will you forget about Android?
- Chris O'Brien from the Silicon Valley Mercury News has an interesting article on why he thinks we will soon forget about Android. When you look at Android up against iPhone, you have to agree that it's going to be a an uphill battle. But if anyone can do...
- Tags: Google Inc., Android, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM
- A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
- The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare
- News items 2008-10-10
- My Awesome IT Job: Director of Rich Media Group at Microsoft
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Rich Media, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Is OpenOffice good enough?
- Yes. OK, obviously there's more to this story than my tongue-in-cheek answer. This came up after one of our supercool, power user secretaries (who is an Office 2003/2007 wiz) ran a training session for the other secretaries in the district. The other secretaries are largely...
- Tags: Secretary, Training, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects
- Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...
- Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
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