Tevron Adds Full Support for Microsoft Windows 7.

CitraTest, CitraTest VU, and CitraTest APM are the only single license, integrated solutions for conducting application performance monitoring, functional, regression and latency testing for every enterprise application that is accessible from a Windows based machine.

Nashua, New Hampshire, October 29, 2009 - Tevron today announced the addition of support for Microsoft Windows 7 to its suite of APM And Testing solutions. Windows 7 is designed for faster and more reliable performance. With 64-bit support, you can take full advantage of the latest powerful PCs. With the latest releases of CitraTest, CitraTest APM, and CitraTest VU, Tevron again is taking the lead role in the APM and testing industry in providing support for every Windows environment including Windows 7 and every application that is accessible from Windows. As companies across the world upgrade to the new Windows 7 operating environment, Tevron's APM and testing solutions will continue to offer the industry lead for application monitoring, load testing, and general automation. To learn more about Tevron's automated testing solutions or to request additional information, please call +1.702.518.7435 or visit http://www.tevron.com.

About Tevron:

Tevron is a global leader in APM and Automated Testing. Through our all encompassing customer-centric vision and advanced technology, our APM and Testing Solutions allow the unique flexibility of supporting every application across the enterprise with one methodology delivering the ability to test, monitor, enforce SLAs, and optimize performance with confidence and ease. Founded in 2001, Tevron is a global organization and is privately held. Our vast and diverse range of customers are global leaders and include companies such as Alcon Labs, Alverno, Northrop Grumman, Xerox, Hewlett Packard, Siemens, and Lucent Technologies, to name a few.

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Tevron, the Tevron logo, and CitraTest are registered trademarks of Tevron, LLC. Windows 7 is a registered trademark of Microsoft. All other product references herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Performance Testing: Importance and Objectives

In the IT service industry, performance testing of applications is undertaken to evaluate the performance of mission critical applications of organizations. Performance testing ensures that the applications being tested are available, reliable and efficient when put under load. Optimum performance of applications can ultimately ensure that the service level agreement conditions are met with.

Importance of Performance Testing

• Application performance has a major impact on the overall quality and popularity, especially in cases where organizations are dependent on IT for major business activities.
• Clients have a clear expectation when it comes to quality and have become more demanding.
• Every client looks for a reliable and fast application; performance testing ensures that all applications are performing optimally and are available and speedy.
• The need for eliminating bottlenecks has become greater in this competitive business world. Performance testing ensures that bottlenecks are identified and eliminated before the application goes into the production stage.
• Breach in service level agreement conditions can be prevented through performance testing of applications.

Performance Testing Objectives

• To analyze the root cause of problems and plan for solving them.
• To ensure that the application meets the performance criteria of clients as well as the company.
• To ensure that applications take the minimum response time possible.
• To eliminate malfunctions in the application before the production stage.
• To make certain that service level agreement conditions will be met by conforming to a certain performance criteria.
• To minimize cost through performance testing.
• To compare two applications for performance.

Most organizations which are dependent on their applications for business activities have realized the importance of performance testing and are using performance testing solutions which help them prevent problems in applications and meet service level agreement conditions. Until recently, multiple solutions were required for each application. But now, many APM vendors offer performance testing solutions which cover all applications within the organization, so that complicated, separate solutions for each application are not required. That means just one performance testing solution supports multiple applications. Eliminating the need for multiple performance testing solutions also saves costs for the organizations concerned.

Business Service Management and its Benefits

Business Service Management (BSM) helps businesses in understanding how IT services can be used, benefited from and improvised. Through Business Service Management, IT managers can monitor applications so that they can foresee and deal with application outages. In large organizations, in case of an outage, it is important to know exactly which department is going to be affected in order to prevent major impact. IT managers also need to ensure that Service Level Agreement conditions are met by ensuring that all business-critical applications are available and error-free. Business Service Management helps IT managers in doing this by tracking, monitoring and managing the investment and operational part of the information technology to make sure that they are in the interests of business. BSM hence intersects the IT processes with the business processes in order to ensure that the IT infrastructure gives maximum benefit to the business.

Business Service Management solutions are not only useful to IT managers, but also business managers. Business managers can quickly analyze the business impact of downtime and deal with clients accordingly. IT managers can then take action to solve that problem and avoid a breach in Service Level Agreements. Using Business Service Management solutions, IT managers can see on a real time basis, where the problem has occurred and which departments will be impacted by it. With this information, IT managers can then plan on how to resolve the problem and which area to target first. This helps them ensure that conditions of Service Level Agreements are not breached.

Business Service Management helps organizations in many ways:

• Business managers can allocate resources efficiently with the help of BSM
• With a Business Service Management solution, business managers can understand the business impact of system failure
• Service Level Agreement conditions can be met successfully
• The root cause of the problem in any application can be pinpointed and a solution can be found quickly
• A Business Service Management solution can help avoid considerable loss in costs
• Businessmen can alert clients in case there is a critical outage
• IT managers can allot work according to priorities to get the problem solved quickly
• Business Service Management solutions give visibility to IT infrastructure, which can help with better management of business resources