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August 19, 2002

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Watchfire Corp. WebQA
  • Quality assurance for your Web site is the focus of Watchfire Corp.'s WebQA. Comprising content, interaction and tag components, WebQA analyzes issues -- such as content and Web application defects, usability and accessibility problems as well as search glitches -- that might disrupt Web services. The content component scans for and reports broken links, orphaned files, slow loading pages, misspellings, and missing description and ALT text. Interaction records and plays back scripts that duplicate Web user actions to verify the site functions as designed. The tag component lets you add, edit and manage metatags. WebQA checks for more than 60 problems and can verify most complex file formats, such as HTML, JavaScript, Flash and content dynamically generated from ASPs and JSPs. $1,495.
    Watchfire Corp., (800) 282-5951, (781) 372-5900; fax (781) 274-8706; www.watchfire.com

    Blue Pumpkin Activity Manager and Advisor and strategic consulting service

  • Blue Pumpkin has enhanced its Director-Enterprise task- and time-management application suite with two new software components, Activity Manager and Advisor, and with its new Strategic Consulting service. Activity Manager monitors employee tasks both for performance and payroll consistency and can be used with the suite's Planner. Advisor, a performance-management solution, monitors network data and helps users map individual and corporate goals. Blue Pumpkin Strategic Consulting service is designed to marry technology and business by analyzing a user's business goals and developing policies that would optimize business processes and manage change. Pricing for each component starts at $250.
    Blue Pumpkin Software, (877) 257-6756 or (408) 830-5400; fax (408) 830-5411; www.bluepumpkin.com

    Resonate Central Dispatch

  • Resonate has added support for Red Hat Linux 7.2 to Central Dispatch, its intelligent LAN-based traffic-management software. Resonate Central Dispatch eases management by letting multiple Linux servers act as a single Internet server system. Software agents collect data, such as CPU load and memory utilization, from the Linux servers and use that information to make decisions on traffic routing for maximum availability and performance. $9,000.
    Resonate, (888) 681-5600, (408) 548-5500; fax (408) 548-5679; www.resonate.com




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