Business technology optimization (BTO) software developer Mercury Interactive Corporation (Nasdaq: MERQ) today announced it has acquired BeatBox Technologies for $14 million.
BeatBox Technologies (formerly ClickCadence LLC) is a privately held company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Mercury also announced it has acquired the m-Test wireless testing technology from Intuwave, a Mercury partner based in the United Kingdom. Mercury paid cash and entered into certain licensing arrangements in exchange for specified intellectual property assets from Intuwave.
BeatBox technology is used to track and capture real user application behavior such as clickstream traffic, page performance, application errors and visitor sessions on web based applications. BeatBox technology can help customers identify, record and analyze how users interact with business applications in production.
Mercury plans to use BeatBox technology to extend the real user monitoring capabilities of its BTO software and to enhance its performance lifecycle offerings.
Intuwave developed m-Test technology to help automate the testing of wireless services and applications running on Symbian OS-based smart phones. Currently, customers can use m-Test in conjunction with Mercury QuickTest Professional and Mercury Business Process Testing to connect directly to a mobile device, such as a smart phone, to test and confirm how the device and its applications will perform. m-Test has been used by device manufacturers and mobile network operators to help ensure the market-readiness of their wireless devices, wireless applications and services.
Mercury plans to utilize m-Test technology to bolster the wireless testing capabilities of its Mercury Quality Center product.
“With the BeatBox and Intuwave technology acquisitions, we continue to execute on our strategy to deepen our core BTO technology and help customers optimize the business outcome of IT,” said Mercury SVP corporate development David Murphy.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on Monday, September 12, 2005