Mercury IT Governance Center Voted 'Best Solution' by IT Executive Attendees
June 30 2005 - 10:21AM
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Mercury IT Governance Center Voted 'Best Solution' by IT Executive
Attendees MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Today, Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ:MERQ), the global
leader in business technology optimization (BTO), announced that
Mercury IT Governance Center(TM) was voted "Best Solution" by
attendees at the Project and Portfolio Management 2005 event held
June 27-28 at the Seaport Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. The
Project and Portfolio Management Awards honor technology and
service providers for their solutions, programs, service and
support, and design and delivery of presentations. The awards were
voted on by the 150 end-user Information Technology (IT) executive
decision-makers attending this event. Mercury was voted "Best
Solution" for having the best overall software product for managing
IT projects, resources and services. "The attending IT executives
had many solutions to choose from and reviewed each based on a
strict set of criteria," said Charles Badoian, global senior
director for Project Portfolio Management. "The results of their
voting recognized Mercury in the category as best solution."
Mercury IT Governance Center helps CIOs and IT executives to manage
the priorities, processes and people of IT. Customers use Mercury
IT Governance offerings to: -- Gain control and visibility over IT
costs, risks, resources and initiatives through a single system of
record for IT; -- Run IT like a business by enabling IT and line of
business executives to work together and make strategic tradeoffs
over IT priorities and objectives -- centralizing critical IT
initiatives such as demand management, project portfolio management
and change management; -- Achieve "sustainable compliance" by
establishing a repeatable, automated approach to managing ongoing
compliance mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley and support quality
programs and process control frameworks such as Six-Sigma, CMMI
(Capability Maturity Model Integration), ITIL (IT Infrastructure
Library), ISO-9000, and COBIT (Control Objectives for Information
and related Technologies); and -- Accelerate IT Governance
initiatives without having to ramp up internal expertise or
purchase additional infrastructure through Mercury Managed Services
for IT Governance. "Mercury is honored to be recognized by the 150
IT executives as the "Best Solution" in the IT Governance market,"
said Alex Lobba, vice president of IT Governance at Mercury.
"Mercury is committed to helping IT executives optimize IT
Governance by controlling IT cost and risk, meeting compliance
requirements and aligning IT with the business." Mercury IT
Governance Leadership Mercury is one of the fastest growing vendors
in the IT Governance market. Mercury is positioned in the leaders
quadrant in Gartner Inc.'s "Magic Quadrant for IT Project and
Portfolio Management, 2005." Mercury also received the highest
possible ranking and was named the market leader in the AMR
Research IT Portfolio Management Report: "IT Portfolio Management
Software: Clear Benefits, Converging Marketplace," June 2004. Many
companies in the Forbes Global 2000 have chosen Mercury IT
Governance products including: 4 of the top 6 companies; 7 of the
top 10 technology, hardware, and equipment companies; 5 of the top
7 consumer durables companies; 5 of the top 8 healthcare,
equipment, and services companies; 3 of the top 5 aerospace and
defense companies; 3 of the top 5 banks; and 4 of the top 7
business services and supplies companies. ABOUT VISION EVENTS
Vision Events, a Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:ITNYSE:andNYSE:ITB) company,
is a leading producer of highly focused business events that bring
resellers and end users together with leading and emerging vendors
in private case study presentations to form strategic partnerships
and secure new business in the technology sector. Additional
information about Vision Events can be found at
http://www.visionevents.com/. ABOUT GARTNER Gartner, Inc.
(NYSE:ITNYSE:andNYSE:ITB) is the leading provider of research and
analysis on the global information technology industry. Gartner
serves more than 10,000 clients, including chief information
officers and other senior IT executives in corporations and
government agencies, as well as technology companies and the
investment community. The Company focuses on delivering objective,
in-depth analysis and actionable advice to enable clients to make
more informed business and technology decisions. The Company's
businesses consist of Gartner Intelligence, research and events for
IT professionals; Gartner Executive Programs, membership programs
and peer networking services; and Gartner Consulting, customized
engagements with a specific emphasis on outsourcing and IT
management. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford,
Connecticut, and has more than 3,500 associates, including
approximately 1,000 research analysts and consultants, in more than
76 locations worldwide. For more information, visit
http://www.gartner.com/. ABOUT MERCURY Mercury Interactive
Corporation, the global leader in business technology optimization
(BTO), is committed to helping customers optimize the business
value of information technology. Founded in 1989, Mercury conducts
business worldwide and is one of the fastest growing 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 June 22,
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 IT Project and Portfolio Management,
2005" please visit http://www.gartner.com/. The Forbes Global 2000
is a comprehensive list of the world's biggest and most powerful
companies, as measured by a composite ranking for sales, profits,
assets, and market value. Market value is as of Feb. 13. Sources:
Exshare, FT Interactive Data, Reuters Fundamentals, and Worldscope
via FactSet Research Systems; Bloomberg Financial Markets. Mercury,
Mercury IT Governance Center, Mercury Managed Services and the
Mercury logo are trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation and
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brand and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks
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