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- RUM Webinar: Tying Applications to Operations: Collaborating to Resolve Real User Problems
- Learn how Mercury Real User Monitor and Mercury Diagnostics integrate error detection and root cause analysis, letting you proactively manage performance for all users, decrease the time it takes to isolate and resolve problems, and automatically capture snapshot on errors and real user session information.
- Tags: Webinar, Mercury Interactive Corp., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts 2006-08-30
- Endless summer of SOA acquisitions
- Is this a great time to be an SOA vendor, or what? Some industry observers may have declared SOA DOA in recent months, but someone forgot to invite Flashline, Webify, MRO Software, and Mercury Interactive to the funeral. What do these smaller, specialized vendors have that makes the big vendors...
- Tags: SOA, BEA Systems Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-23
- Accelerate IT Service Management and ITIL Guidance
- Learn how Forsythe Solutions Group together with Mercury can provide the essential tools, technology and advice to accelerate the successful adoption of ITIL initiatives. This paper combines Forsythe's real-world ITSM experience with Mercury's powerful business technology optimization BTO tools and processes.
- Tags: Business Technology Optimization, Information Technology, Mercury Interactive Corp., ITIL, Service Level Management, It Services, Process Improvement, It Operations, It service Management, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Real-World Business Service Management: Managing IT Operations for Business Results
- As information technology IT becomes more critical to business success, companies are struggling to align IT efforts with business goals. This white paper discusses how Mercury's Business Service Management BSM solution fosters collaboration and alignment between the business and IT.
- Tags: Information Technology, Mercury Interactive Corp., Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-08-01
- HP's big-time SOA entree
- HP's big-time SOA entreeHP/Mercury Merger Is Good For SOA... But Still Missing Some PiecesHewlett-Packard recently solidified their enterprise software commitment with its intended $450 billion purchase of Mercury Interactive, a business software producer.This is a big move for HP into enterprise software, and a strong sign of support from HP...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mercury Interactive Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-07-28
- HP's big-time SOA entree
- The big fish keep eating the smaller fish who already ate even smaller fish. And sometimes a little "mercury" in the fish isn't such a bad thing. The two percent that Systinet Registry represents may have clinched...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mercury Interactive Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-27
- HP snaps up Mercury Interactive
- HP snaps up Mercury InteractiveI'm #1! I'm #1!Hey, I'm the only one.
- Tags: Mercury Interactive Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2006-07-26
- HP bids $4.5bn for Mercury for lead in IT center management tools
- Hewlett-Packard's $4.5bn bid to acquire Mercury Interactive is a smart move as the top IT vendors jostle for prime position in the area of data center management. The ultimate goal is to create a type of operating system for the IT data center of the future in which applications can...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mercury Interactive Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-25
- HP's bold purchase of Mercury ups the SOA governance ante
- Governance is to SOA what systems management is to datacenters. So it makes perfect sense for HP to buy Mercury Interactive: HP gets a strong Silicon Valley company at a good price, it quickly strengthens its role in the SOA governance market, and it broadens its core systems management value...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mercury Interactive Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-25
- HP to acquire Mercury
- As rumored last month, HP is indeed interested in Mercury Interactive, and pulled the trigger today. The price tag--a cash tender offer for $52.00 per share, or approximately $4.5 billion. From the press release: “Today, we are combining two market-leading businesses to create the most powerful management software portfolio in...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mercury Interactive Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-25
- Automated Testing in FDA-Regulated Environments with Mercury and Genilogix
- Mandated by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration, the Computer Systems Validation CSV process represents a critical step in the deployment and maintenance of software applications for life sciences companies. Mercury, together with specific guidance and technology from Genilogix, can help automate and accelerate the validation process to contribute to organizational...
- Tags: Automated Testing, Mercury Interactive Corp., Regulatory Compliance, Tools & Techniques, Healthcare, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Management
- White papers 2006-07-01
- ITIL Foundations: Mapping ITIL to the Real World
- Produced in conjunction with Enterprise Management Associates, this paper discusses Mercury's comprehensive, business-centric IT service management strategy to optimize the value of ITIL and ITSM initiatives. It addresses many of the challenges facing IT today: breaking down traditional domain silos, increasing visibility for decision-makers, mitigating risk from change requests, integrating...
- Tags: Mercury Interactive Corp., ITIL, It Services, Service Level Management, Process Improvement, It Operations, It service Management, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Mitigating the Risk of Change with Mercury BTO Solutions
- Put the power of ITIL to work for you. View this Webinar and you'll see real-world examples of how to gain visibility and control over your IT operations, empower the Change Control Board CCB with proactive information on change impact and collisions, and implement integrated, end-to-end automated solutions for the...
- Tags: Mercury Interactive Corp., ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- Webcasts 2006-06-15
- Mercury goes shopping--HP and EMC nowhere to be seen
- Rumors have been swirling the HP or EMC would acquire Mercury Interactive, but for now the company is continuing on its own buying binge. "It's further evidence that we want to be the acquiring company as opposed to the acquired company," Christopher Lochhead, Mercury chief marketing officer, told me today...
- Tags: Mercury Interactive Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-06-13
- Rumor: Mercury attracting multiple suitors
- One of the consolidation rumors floating around Silicon Valley is the pursuit of Mercury Interactive, with EMC and HP supposedly bidding for the leader in BTO business technology optimization. With a current market cap above $3 billion, Mercury could go for close to $4 billion. Mercury, which is in the...
- Tags: Mercury Interactive Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-06-06
- Mercury automates change control management
- I hear a lot about change control these days. During the Churchill Club CIO panel discussion last week, Randall Spratt, CIO of McKesson Corp., talked about the quality of the change management function as an indicator of whether an IT project will succeed or fail. Enterprises are constantly making application,...
- Tags: Mercury Interactive Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
- Application Problem Resolution with Real User Monitoring and Diagnostics
- This Webinar introduces an innovative new offering from Mercury that marries real user monitoring with integrated diagnostics to accelerate problem isolation in enterprise environments.
- Tags: Monitoring, Mercury Interactive Corp., Diagnostics
- Webcasts 2006-04-20
- Mitigating the Business Risk of Change with Mercury Application Change Lifecycle
- To successfully mitigate the risk of change, IT departments need an approach that automates processes across the change lifecycle, aggregates demand from all requesting sources, and gives decision makers a clear, comprehensive view of requested changes and their potential business impact. Read how Mercury's Application Change Lifecycle solution is based...
- Tags: Mercury Interactive Corp., Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-04-01
- 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 Service Management Best Practices Webinar
- In this webcast, one will learn how Mercury's BTO solutions can help one to implement Service level management and system availability management according to Business Service Management BSM best practices.
- Tags: Business Service Management, Mercury Interactive Corp., Service Management, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
- Webcasts 2006-02-15
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