Wily Technology Achieves 43 Percent Growth Worldwide in Q3 2005
Brisbane, Calif. – October 31, 2005 – Wily Technology
Inc., the leader in Enterprise Application Management, today
announced it achieved worldwide sales growth of 43 percent
in Q3 2005 compared to the same period in 2004. Demand for
Wily’s application performance management solutions
continued to surge in Q3 as the company released Wily 6,
the latest version of its flagship Introscope® product,
closed on its acquisition of Timestock, Inc., expanded its
partnerships with the worlds leading application vendors
and maintained a steady pace of international expansion.
Year-to-date, Wily has grown worldwide sales by 69 percent
compared to the same period in 2004.
“This was another strong quarter for Wily. We continue
to grow faster than the market because we offer the most
effective solutions for enterprises to ensure the performance
and availability of their revenue generating applications, “said
Dick Williams, president and CEO of Wily Technology, Inc. “Companies
trust Wily for their application management needs because
we provide all the real-time information required for end-to-end
application management, and we continue to release innovative
new solutions that meet their evolving needs such as Customer
Experience Manager, MQ monitoring and the first production
error detection solution.”
Global Growth
Many leading enterprises across all industries selected
Wily in the quarter to meet their application management
needs. Key new or extended customer relationships in the
third quarter of 2005 included: Caterpillar, Citizens Property
Insurance, City of Chicago, Discovery Communications, Honda
Canada Manufacturing, Kohls, Motricity, San Diego Data Processing
Corporation, UNICCO Service Company, U.S. Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, VNU eMedia, World Wide Technology, AIB, AWD
GmbH, Kaufmännische Krankenkasse, MKK, Sekerbank, Westfaelische
Provinzial, American International Assurance and SMG Co.
Ltd.
Between Q3 2004 and Q3 2005 outside the U.S., Wily achieved
125 percent growth in Europe and 306 percent growth in Asia
Pacific. Year-to-date, Wily has grown its combined sales
for Europe and Asia by 129 percent compared to the same period
in 2004.
Wily Acquires Timestock
In Q3 2005 Wily closed its acquisition of Timestock, Inc.
and created a new Customer Experience Management business
unit to be led by Dave Chapman, former CEO of Timestock.
Timestock solutions detect, prioritize and isolate complex
problems that affect the ability of customers to execute
successful transactions in any application, whether it was
built on Java, .NET, mainframe, or other technology. Timestock
technology will be used to extend the deep application visibility
and problem diagnosis capabilities already provided by Introscope,
Wily’s award-winning application performance management
solution.
New Partnerships
Wily was named to BEA’s new Global Management Alliance
(GMA) in Q3 2005, an elite designation within the overall
BEA Partner Program. This past quarter, Wily became the only
management vendor to successfully validate its solutions
for the entire BEA WebLogic platform including WebLogic Server
8.1, WebLogic Portal 8.1 and WebLogic Integration 8.1. Validation
of Introscope by BEA assures WebLogic customers they can
continue to choose Introscope to proactively manage and monitor
their enterprise web applications.
Wily expanded its global network of systems integrators,
distributors and resellers to 63 in Q3 by establishing new
partnerships with Adanta Systems, Kainos Software Ltd., Millennium
Software Solutions Inc., SAFE-IT and TSI.
Significant New Products
Wily introduced Wily 6™ in Q3 2005, a new version
of the world’s most advanced solution for managing
the availability and performance of business-critical web
applications. Only Wily 6 can provide application management
teams with real-time visibility into actual customer transactions
as they cross through heterogeneous systems, from the browser
to connected back-ends. Wily 6 supports all leading application
platforms and enterprise J2EE software packages, innovations
in Wily 6 include Introscope ErrorDetector™, the first
solution for the detection and diagnosis of serious application
errors that can prevent users from completing web transactions;
expanded capabilities to monitor IBM WebSphere MQ; and significant
deployment and usability enhancements.
Wily also shipped Introscope for SAP® NetWeaver™ in
Q3 2005 which enables SAP customers to maximize application
uptime and performance through end-to-end, real-time visibility
into real transactions by ensuring applications built on
SAP NetWeaver and SAP Enterprise Portal successfully meet
business goals. Introscope for SAP NetWeaver provides SAP
customers with the same performance management tools used
today by SAP’s Active Global Support (AGS) centers.
Expanded Professional Services
In Q3 2005, Wily expanded its professional services organization
and named Melinda Watson, a 20-year technology veteran, to
the position of VP and General Manager of Consulting. Watson
will be responsible for the ongoing growth of Wily’s
professional services organization, which has grown over
110 percent in the past year.
About Wily Technology, Inc.
CA Wily Technology, a division of CA, is the market-leading provider of Enterprise Application Management solutions. By providing end-to-end visibility into customer transactions in real-time, CA Wily's products enable companies to successfully manage the health and availability of their critical Web applications and infrastructure. CA Wily's collaborative management approach allows enterprises to rapidly detect and diagnose application slowdowns and failures, and better assess the impact of application performance on business success. This means better customer service, more stable revenue streams, and higher IT productivity. To learn more about CA's Wily Technology division, visit http://www.wilytech.com or call 1 888 GET WILY.
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