Press Room: 2002
Keynote Expands Web Testing Arsenal; New Powerful Content and Integrity Testing Service Launched
Enterprise HTML Toolbox Provides Unique Solution to Improve the Quality of Web Sites
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Global Internet Performance Conference 2002 East, NEW YORK CITY — October 28, 2002 — As customers demand better and more consistent service from Web sites, large enterprise companies are being challenged to manage the performance of their e-business operations more efficiently. At the opening today of its GIPC East event, Keynote Systems™ (Nasdaq:KEYN), unveiled Enterprise HTML Toolbox, a powerful Web site testing service providing the large enterprise with a scaleable tool to test the content and integrity of Web sites in all stages from development to deployment. Enterprise HTML Toolbox applies common performance standards to all site content ensuring the highest possible user experience.
Because of the large number of pages with content and links that change on a daily basis, the enterprise Web site can become unwieldy without an organized work flow process that allows those responsible for it to develop, test and manage the quality of these changes. Enterprise HTML Toolbox is highly usable in this fast-paced environment simplifying Web site quality testing, ensuring the security of confidential data during testing, permitting the operations manager or release manager to test content on a release schedule, to understand the effects of design on performance and to enforce standards compliance across the organization.
"Keynote's Enterprise HTML Toolbox is a powerful content and integrity testing tool. By automating the quality assurance of Web site content, it eliminates the need for a manual proofing process of a very large site like REI's with pages which change frequently," said Rod Ketchum, System Architect, Recreational Equipment, Inc. "The Enterprise HTML Toolbox is a single tool that our team can use to quickly flag Web site quality issues and automate the repair of those problems before new pages are launched. This rids my staff of the need to use multiple, cumbersome tools that only minimally address all of the Web site content and integrity aspects that are so critical to test on an ongoing basis as part of the end user experience."
Geared directly to the requirements of the large corporation, Enterprise HTML Toolbox permits a Web site manager and those contributing content to test large numbers of pages quickly, test the content on intranets and staging servers securely behind the firewall, protect the security and confidentiality of Web site data because the tests are stored locally and support multiple users to test and share results.
The Enterprise HTML Toolbox provides a fast, self service, on-demand testing solution that allows the operations team to quickly find content related problems after each site update and on an ongoing basis by testing link integrity, to diagnose and repair HTML code problems as well as test for compliance with the latest HTML standards, to ensure that their Web pages view well under popular browser versions, to optimize images for faster load time without sacrificing quality, and to conduct a site wide spell check. With Enterprise HTML Toolbox Web site operators can also assure that their site is accessible to users with disabilities. Enterprise HTML Toolbox is especially valuable as a deployed content testing tool to test the Web site after new pages are released onto the live site. It can be used by each of the content developers for quality checks and then by the release manager for validation before any Web page goes into production.
"The Enterprise HTML Toolbox is a powerful tool which streamlines the Web site content testing process and can help me to make very informed decisions with very little effort. It's a wonderful resource that essentially is the "big brother" of de-centralized Web site development teams," said Harry Nicholos, assistant director for Unix and Web services, Information Technology Division, North Carolina State University. "By using the Enterprise HTML Toolbox prior to launching new content and pages, I can be assured that my university Web pages are high quality, all links work, the site will be compatible for the browsers my visitors use, images will be optimized for load time, and that my users will have a positive Web site experience."
The content checking feature of Enterprise HTML Toolbox allows users to check for the presence or absence of certain graphics or texts across a large number of pages in a one step test. Companies can use this feature, for example, to validate that an outdated company logo has been replaced on all pages or scan for specific text that should be excluded.
The Enterprise HTML Toolbox is a solution designed to fit the fast-pace of change required for the enterprise level Web site providing a single tool that tests public and private content , scales to test a large number of pages in a single job, and offers a secure and extensible environment for pre-deployment testing.
"With many Fortune 1000 companies already subscribing to Keynote's growing array of benchmarking, testing and application performance services, the need to provide these customers with a secure Web site quality testing tool that can test a large number of pages quickly was evident," said Arnold Waldstein, vice president of marketing and business development for Keynote. "The Enterprise HTML Toolbox is a logical extension of Keynote's growing array of testing services adding an additional layer of testing functionality to those testing solutions."
Enterprise HTML Toolbox is part of Keynote's leading solutions available for testing today's highly critical and complex Web applications and systems strengthening the company's portfolio of offerings for ‘total performance management.'
‘Total Performance Management' (TPM) is comprised of complete end-to-end services delivered by Keynote and KeyPartners for benchmarking, diagnosing, testing and managing the end-to-end performance of e-business applications and systems.
Today Keynote also introduced WebEffective™, a new online user experience testing service and Test Perspective™ 5.0, an updated version of its self-service Web site load testing solution (see separate press releases issued today). With the addition of WebEffective and, Enterprise HTML Toolbox , Keynote extends the reach of its performance testing services to user experience as well as content and integrity testing.
About Enterprise HTML Toolbox
Enterprise HTML Toolbox is a self-service, Web site quality testing tool developed to meet the testing needs of enterprises operating large Web sites. The Enterprise HTML Toolbox now adds an additional layer of testing functionality to Keynote's testing solutions, providing self-service content testing. The Keynote Enterprise HTML Toolbox is delivered via an appliance that resides in a customer's data center and can test public or private (i.e. Intranet content, content on staging servers) section of the Web site. It provides link integrity testing, HTML standards conformance testing, browser compatibility testing, and optimization of images for load time and spell check. The Keynote Enterprise HTML Toolbox can scale to test a large number of pages typical of a large enterprise site. These tests can be executed on-demand or scheduled at daily, weekly, biweekly and monthly intervals. All tests are executed directly from the appliance. Multiple accounts can be configured to provide access to multiple users in the enterprise. All test results are held locally to the device and can be stored indefinitely for the duration of the use of the Toolbox.
Availability and Pricing
Enterprise HTML Toolbox is available immediately and it priced at $2500 per month/per device for an unlimited number of tests.
Keynote Systems, Inc.
Keynote Systems (Nasdaq "KEYN"), The Internet Performance Authority®, is the worldwide leader in Internet performance management services that improve the quality of e-business. Keynote's services enable corporate enterprises to benchmark, diagnose, test and manage their e-business systems both inside and outside the firewall. More than 2,400 corporate IT departments and 18,000 individual subscribers rely on the company's easy-to-use and cost-effective services to optimize revenues and reduce downtime costs without requiring additional complex and costly software implementations.
Keynote Systems, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California. The company can be reached at www.keynote.com or by phone in the U.S. at 650-403-2400.
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Editorial Contact:
Della Lowe, Keynote Systems, Inc., (650) 403-3233, dlowe@keynote.com
