Web apps for corporate enterprises gets another handshake

SAN MATEO, US: Keynote Systems and OPNET Technologies, Inc, a provider of solutions for managing application and network performance, announced a strategic alliance that focuses on maximizing the performance and availability of web applications for corporate enterprises and government agencies worldwide.

Key initiatives of the alliance, as per a press release, include technical collaboration and coordinated marketing and sales efforts that emphasize each company’s technologies, as the press release adds.

OPNET’s senior vice president of business development and global channels, Todd Kaloudis, stated, “By combining the industry’s most advanced technologies from Keynote and OPNET, IT teams can now respond to performance issues with unprecedented speed, and in many cases, before they reach a critical state. We believe this alliance is timely because our economy depends on highly responsive web applications more than ever before. Businesses can’t afford to let their online assets get paralyzed.”

The OPNET/Keynote offering enables proactive, 24x7 visibility into the performance of critical applications from multiple geographic locations using a combination of real user traffic and synthetic transaction monitoring.

Keynote claims it contributes synthetic transaction monitoring, alarms, and user experience monitoring from more than 2,500 locations outside the enterprise network, using the most popular browsers and mobile devices. Keynote provides real browser diagnostics and the ability to monitor Web applications and sites 24/7, regardless of when users are online, allowing for the most accurate possible view into the performance of mission-critical e-business applications,” said Vik Chaudhary, vice president of product management and corporate development at Keynote.

“With the addition of OPNET’s detailed analytics and drilldown capabilities, our combined offering will provide new and existing customers with an even more powerful APM solution for faster identification, tracking and resolution of potentially damaging performance issues. This is a powerful APM solution that brings together two leading technology providers focused on the same goal of helping our customers to maximize performance.”