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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: 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
- 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
- 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
- Maximizing the Business Value of the Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
- The rapid pace of change in today's IT environments requires an efficient and accurate process for managing and tracking changes to the IT infrastructure. The challenges of effective configuration management require a combination of well-designed, efficient processes and management tools that enable an automated approach to building, maintaining, and verifying...
- Tags: Information Technology, CMDB, Configuration Management, Mercury Interactive Corp.
- White papers 2006-02-01
- UDDI: policy enforcer or dead parrot?
- Mercury Interactive's announcement that it was buying SOA vendor Systinet has stirred some mixed reactions from the industry. Some eyebrows were raised by the fact that Mercury was also recently delisted from the Nasdaq stock exchange. Mercury apparently blames the delisting on a failure to file appropriate financial statements by...
- Tags: Systinet Corp., UDDI
- Blog posts 2006-01-10
- Mercury Real User Monitor: Proactively Managing the User's Quality of Experience and Accelerating Time-to-Resolution
- Learn how Mercury Real User Monitor gives IT organizations the tools they need to deliver an outstanding user experience by proactively managing performance and identifying negative trends before users are impacted.
- Tags: Monitor, Mercury Interactive Corp., Productivity, Performance Management, Monitors & Displays, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Components, Management
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Best Practices for IT: ITIL Market Trends
- ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library best practices have gained popularity and momentum among corporations looking to advance their IT effectiveness and efficiencies. This Enterprise Management Associates white paper, presented by Mercury, takes a look at ITIL disciplines and how they can enable users to tailor their processes...
- Tags: Information Technology, Best Practice, Mercury Interactive Corp., ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Analyst Report: Agents vs. Agentless Systems Management
- This Enterprise Management Associates paper shows how agentless monitoring solutions address the issues most important to enterprises today: cost, ease of maintenance, faster deployment, and lower impact on the managed server.
- Tags: Agent, Analyst Report, Monitoring, Mercury Interactive Corp.
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Application Performance Lifecycle Management: Reduce Time, Effort, and Cost in Pre-Production, Production
- This paper describes an integrated process to manage performance across the entire application lifecycle -- from pre-production development, testing and tuning, through "go live" deployment into production.
- Tags: Performance, Mercury Interactive Corp., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2005-12-01
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