RTTS Joins Mercury Interactive's Channel Alliance Program  
     
  New York, NY, August 14, 2001 - RTTS, a leader in the automated testing industry since 1996, announced today that it has joined Mercury Interactive's Channel Alliance Program (CAP). Mercury Interactive is the leader in enterprise testing and application performance management solutions. RTTS has established a broad spectrum of superior alliance partnerships that complement outstanding consulting, training and support services to provide escalating support to its clients' needs for application quality assurance.  
     
  "By joining Mercury Interactive's CAP, RTTS is demonstrating its commitment to ensuring its customers are able to deploy the highest quality applications as quickly as possible," said Jay Mellman, vice president of corporate and channel marketing at Mercury Interactive. "Now RTTS can offer its clients the leading enterprise testing and application performance management solutions for improved performance, reliability and scalability of their enterprise and Web applications."  
     
  Mercury Interactive's Channel Alliance Partners are leading value-added resellers, solutions partners and systems integrators. Together with Mercury Interactive's enterprise testing and application performance management solutions, Mercury Interactive's Channel Alliance Partners provide the expertise needed to implement the industry's best software testing and application performance monitoring solutions.  
     
  RTTS provides on-site consulting and outsourcing services to support the development, maintenance and operation of software applications using Mercury Interactive's industry-leading enterprise products, WinRunner®, LoadRunner® and TestDirector® to support the testing of the most demanding business applications and architectures. Additionally, RTTS will provide organizations with Mercury Interactive's Topaz®, to monitor and quickly detect, diagnose and resolve application performance issues that may arise once an application is in production. These solutions enable customers to gain significant returns on their infrastructure investments while delivering higher quality applications.  
     
  "Mercury Interactive's approach to application performance management is very comprehensive and will enable our customers to ensure the reliability and performance of their applications," said, Bill Hayduk, Director of Professional Services at RTTS. "We are pleased to join forces with Mercury and further expand RTTS' capabilities in enterprise testing and application performance monitoring area."  
     
  With many years of successful test implementations utilizing best of breed automated test tools, RTTS' client list reads like a "Who's Who" list among the top financial, insurance, telecommunication, pharmaceutical, and technology firms in the U.S. RTTS' comprehensive range of services includes functional, scalability and architecture testing, in addition to training and process improvement.  
     
  About Real-Time Technology Solutions: RTTS is a professional services organization that specializes in testing of IT applications and architecture. Serving Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies alike since 1996, RTTS assures application functionality, reliability and scalability with best-of breed tools, expert test engineers and proven methodology. RTTS continues to expand its offerings to include infrastructure analysis and troubleshooting.