Around the world, market leaders in software, system integration and outsourcing are announcing their support for Mercury BTO Enterprise™, the industry’s first integrated suite of BTO offerings designed to help customers optimize the business outcomes of IT. BearingPoint, EDS, Oracle, SAP AG, Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro, among others, provide products, services and industry expertise to extend Mercury BTO Enterprise.

Over the past several years, hundreds of partners have joined Mercury in helping customers work in an automated and integrated manner to produce predictable business results from IT. Industry leaders supporting the recently announced Mercury BTO Enterprise include: Acquity Group, Advanced Technology Solutions LLC, Applimation Inc., BearingPoint, Birlasoft, Borland, BusinessEdge Solutions, CollabNet, EDS, Flashline, Genilogix, IQ Services, Mentora Group, Mindtree Consulting, Netli Inc., NetScout Systems, Netuitive Inc., Oracle, Peregrine Systems, PowerTest, Prolify Inc., ResultsPositive Incorporated, SAP AG, Siebel, Sierra Atlantic, Sky IT Group, Sofea Inc., Software Quality Solutions (SQS), Solstice Software, Spectrum Solutions Inc., SPI Dynamics, Tata Consultancy Services, Technisource, Total Resource Management, Utopia Solutions, VMware, Watchfire and Wipro.

“IT organizations today need to ensure that their activities are focused on maximizing business value and delivering business results,” said Darcy Moss, director, Applications Development Services, EDS. “Enterprises and government agencies worldwide rely on the combined offerings of EDS and Mercury BTO Enterprise to align IT with business priorities, manage change, and reduce costs and risks.”

“To date, over 1,000 Oracle customers have used Mercury BTO offerings to deploy, upgrade, and maintain their Oracle® E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne implementations,” said Richard Sarwal, vice president, Server Applied Technologies, Oracle. “Oracle Fusion Middleware's technology allows IT to spend less time on integration problems and more time aligning to meet the needs of the businesses. We look forward to working with Mercury to help our mutual customers optimize the business outcomes of IT.”

“For many years we have worked with Mercury to help our mutual customers utilize BTO software to further optimize the quality, performance and scalability of their SAP® solutions and to help ensure the business outcomes of their deployments of those solutions,” said Ross Wainwright, senior vice president of consulting, SAP America, Inc. “Mercury's adoption of SAP NetWeaver® and SAP's Enterprise Services Architecture is helping companies to create more flexible business processes and to align business process requirements with IT realities.”

Partners announcing their support for Mercury BTO Enterprise include:

• Global system integrators and outsourcers that provide services using Mercury BTO software and offer a comprehensive range of IT services to clients in diverse industries such as banking and financial services, insurance, manufacturing, telecommunications, retail, transportation, and the public sector;
• National and regional solutions partners that provide customers with services that interoperate with Mercury IT Governance, Application Delivery and Application Management products; and
• Technology partners that develop specific software products to interoperate with Mercury BTO Enterprise offerings. Their complementary technologies span a wide range of categories including application security, database, CRM, data management, ERP, help desk, IT infrastructure, system and network management applications, and version control.

For more information about Mercury’s BTO offerings, go to www.mercury.com.