Sigma-Aldrich Ensures Website Quality with Borland® SilkPerformer®
Pre-Deployment Automated Performance Testing Helps Life Sciences Leader Maintain Web Application Integrity; Ensures Application Performance Throughout Major Website Migration
Cupertino, Calif - Apr 16, 2007 : Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL, www.borland.com), a global leader in Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), today announced that Sigma-Aldrich is using Borland® SilkPerformer® for automated software load and stress testing of its mission-critical website applications to identify potential performance bottlenecks and reliability issues in pre-deployment.
In addition, Sigma-Aldrich is using SilkPerformer, a core component of Borland's Lifecycle Quality Management (LQM) solution, to ensure the accuracy, reliability and responsiveness of its website throughout a major migration from a legacy website technology to IBM® WebSphere® Application Server.
Sigma-Aldrich (www.sigma-aldrich.com), a leading life science and high technology company, serves customers in more than 150 countries from its operations in 36 countries, selling more than 130,000 products through its content-rich Internet catalog and store. Approximately 36 percent of the organization's Research business is conducted via the website, which is a key component of the company's growth strategy. With more than 100,000 page views a day and an extensive catalog of constantly changing, complex product information, Sigma Aldrich's site is highly dynamic, making it crucial that the site remain live and reliable.
"We chose to replace Mercury® LoadRunner® with Borland SilkPerformer because it offered the best scripting tool, and was the best product for automated test maintenance," said Rich Porter, website administrator for Sigma-Aldrich. "Our site is highly dynamic, and the flexibility provided by SilkPerformer helps us efficiently and accurately test our catalog and order management applications for potential performance bottlenecks or outages in pre-deployment, which ensures we consistently deliver the highest levels of quality to our customers."
Sigma-Aldrich's considerable reliance on their site for business productivity makes it critical that large, complex orders don't stall or crash the system - which supports more than 100,000 page views per day. Borland SilkPerformer allows Sigma-Aldrich to create a pool of shared "virtual users" to reliably, realistically and cost-effectively simulate even its highest-volume usage situations to ensure that no matter the circumstances, the site's response-time and ease-of-use remain unaffected.
In addition, Sigma-Aldrich's web team is currently in the process of migrating its entire website to IBM WebSphere Application Server, and they will use Borland SilkPerformer to ensure none of the site's critical applications experience performance or scalability issues during the transition. SilkPerformer's unique, virtual user "types" provides Sigma-Aldrich with the flexibility to test in all major application environments, making performance testing and assurance seamless throughout the migration.
Borland SilkPerformer is available today. For more information please visit: http://www.borland.com/us/products/silk/silkperformer/index.html.
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