Utrecht, SEPTEMBER 4, 2002 — Mercury Interactive Corporation
(NASDAQ: MERQ), the leading provider of software and services that optimize business processes, announced today that it has once again been named by IDC as the revenue leader in the distributed automated software quality (ASQ) tools market with 50.1 percent market share.
This ranking is based on worldwide revenues for the year 2001 and is affirmed in the new IDC report "The Worldwide Distributed Automated Software Quality Tools Market Forecast and Analysis, 2002-2006".
According to the report, the distributed ASQ tools market reached $610 million in 2001, a 9.2 percent increase over 2000, with worldwide revenues forecast to exceed $957 million in 2003 and reach $1.9 billion in 2006. Mercury Interactive strengthened its overall leadership position by outpacing the overall market growing 12.9 percent from 2000 to 2001.
"We at IDC attribute a large degree of Mercury Interactive’s success in the marketplace to its uncanny ability to anticipate customer needs in the ASQ space and be among the first to fulfill them," said Dick Heiman, research director at IDC. "The company is focused on optimizing business processes by measuring an application’s functionality and performance against business expectations. We believe that this holistic view of application quality will continue to resonate well in the future."
IDC’s report #27552, available on Mercury Interactive’s Web site at http://www.mercuryinteractive.com/company/pr/idcreport/27552at.htm,
focuses on tools used to test and validate the functionality and performance of software applications to ensure their quality.
Software applications tested by distributed ASQ tools include traditional client/server, custom applications, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship planning (CRM) packaged applications, and the full spectrum of Internet, intranet and extranet applications.
"Today’s IT systems are wildly complex with myriad software applications and disparate tools and technologies that greatly complicate the task of managing and optimizing the IT ecosystem to keep it aligned with business needs," said Yuval Scarlat, vice president and general manager of the testing and tuning business unit at Mercury Interactive. "Mercury Interactive delivers a family of software and services that measure, manage and maximize application quality to ensure that key business objectives are met or exceeded."
ABOUT MERCURY INTERACTIVE CORPORATION
Founded in 1989, Mercury Interactive delivers a complete, integrated family of enterprise testing, production tuning and performance management solutions that enable customers to optimize business processes and maximize business results. Customers worldwide use Mercury Interactive solutions across their application and technology infrastructures to measure, maximize and manage at every level of the business process and each stage of the application lifecycle to ensure key business objectives are met or exceeded. Mercury Interactive is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in more than 25 countries. Further information is available at www.mercuryinteractive.com or by phone at U.S. +1.408.822.5200. The company’s common stock trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol MERQ. # # #
For more information:
Mercury Interactive Benelux,
Esther Westerweele, marketing manager
030-2417090 - e-mail: ewesterweele@mercury-eur.com
or
Presscom PR & Marketing, Theo Vrugt
030-6051415