Performance Testing of Web 2.0 Apps Across the Internet Cloud Now as Easy as Flying a KITE - With Keynote Internet Testing Environment 2.0

Business Wire, June 24, 2008

* Keynote Customers Can Now Easily Record and Execute Web Transaction Tests on the Desktop and Upload Them to Keynote's On-Demand Global Test and Measurement Network to Assess the Performance Impact from the End User Perspective in Real Time

* KITE 2.0 Enables IT Operations, QA and Web Developers to Work Collaboratively Together Across the Application Lifecycle

* KITE 2.0 with JavaScript Programmability for Scripting Provides a Robust Real Time Test and Measurement Environment for Solving the Performance Challenges Inherent in Rich Internet Applications and Complex Web Transactions

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Keynote Systems (Nasdaq: KEYN), the global leader in on-demand mobile and Internet test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience, today announced KITE 2.0 (Keynote Internet Testing Environment), the latest version of Keynote's product for testing and analyzing the performance of Web applications across the Internet cloud. KITE 2.0 is a powerful Web performance testing product that gives users the flexibility of testing instantly from their desktop or from geographic locations across Keynote's on-demand global test and measurement network.

KITE 2.0 enables Web developers, QA professionals, performance analysts and others to execute - with point and click ease - rapid performance analysis and validation by measuring the end user experience of next generation Web 2.0 applications that include AJAX and asynchronously downloaded content. The results gleaned from running Web transaction scripts in real time from multiple cities enable the various groups participating in the application lifecycle process (developers, QA engineers, performance analysts, Web Ops and IT) to work collaboratively together to establish performance benchmarks either pre or post-application deployment and to triage and resolve performance problems throughout the application development lifecycle.

With code changes and site updates being made to Web sites and applications on a near daily basis - sometimes even multiple times a day - the efficiencies and productivities gained from the ability to test, validate, recreate, analyze and remediate application performance problems, nearly on the fly, are profound.

"As cloud computing grows dramatically, a new age of products for testing and validating application performance in real time across the Internet cloud is required. We've built KITE to address this need as a product for anyone wanting to understand and improve the performance of their Web applications from the end user perspective," said Vik Chaudhary, vice president of product management and corporate development at Keynote.

"Assuring and optimizing the performance of Web and Web 2.0 applications can no longer be accomplished through a siloed set of tools designed to support individual technology professionals in isolation," said Dennis Drogseth, vice president, Enterprise Management Associates. "Keynote's KITE 2.0 initiative provides multi-dimensional insights into QoE issues that can easily be shared and accessed by different roles within and beyond IT, from application developers, to application support teams, to network managers, to performance analysts and engineers, to line of business executives, among others. KITE 2.0's global reach and inherently extensible design as a service makes it well suited to support next-generation Web application management requirements."

New Features in KITE 2.0

KITE 2.0 offers both instant testing from the desktop and from a pre-selected group of geographic locations across the Internet cloud. KITE users can upload Web transaction scripts from the desktop to the Keynote global test and measurement network and receive free instant performance data from five cities: San Francisco, New York, London, Frankfurt and Hong Kong. And because Keynote's test & measurement network spans the globe, KITE users can upload the same scripts to 70+ metropolitan areas worldwide to continue monitoring and gathering performance data worldwide. The top five technical features of KITE 2.0 include:

* Performance analysis for multi-page transactions;

* Native Internet Explorer integration allows for the easy analysis of AJAX, Flash, JavaScript

* Test performance from the desktop, the last mile and the Internet cloud

* JavaScript programmability for scripting actions based on DOM events (Document Object Model)

* Record Web application test scripts, playback in 'burst mode,' and share scripts across groups

Addressing A Growing Development, Testing and Web Operations Audience

KITE 2.0 enables Web developers, QA professionals and performance analysts to execute - with point and click ease - rapid performance analysis and validation to measure the end user experience of next generation Web 2.0 applications that include AJAX. Scripts can be shared as benchmarks and to perform triage among all the Web application life cycle groups, including developers, QA and IT operations.

Use Cases for KITE 2.0: App Developers, Performance Analysts, QA, Ops