Knoa Experience and Performance Manager Wins
Second Annual SoftwareCEO Innovation Awards
CompTIA Recognizes Knoa for Most Innovative
Enterprise Software
NEW YORK, May 20, 2008- Knoa Software the leading provider of
end-user experience and performance management software, today announced that it has been awarded the SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Award for 2008 by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA). Knoa EPM was honored in the category of "Most Innovative Enterprise Software."
This is the second award win for Knoa in the category of product excellence in as many weeks.
The SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Awards recognize innovative software products and new business models in eight different categories. The awards honor the industry's efforts and accomplishments not only in developing ideas, but in bringing them to market to make them work for their customers.
Knoa's Experience and Performance Manager (EPM) suite is the first end-user management solution designed to optimize both application and end-user performance. Knoa EPM provides total end-user monitoring coverage for enterprise applications, such as SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Siebel CRM, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft Enterprise Suite, as well as many other application vendors and custom applications.
"This year's competition was fierce and featured more than 90 entries," said David Sommer, chief operating officer, CompTIA, and publisher of SoftwareCEO. "Knoa's recognition and accomplishments are a testament to the creativity and vibrancy of the software market, which continues to produce products and services that deliver real business value to customers. Knoa and other award recipients are at the forefront of innovation. On behalf of the worldwide membership of CompTIA and SoftwareCEO, I am pleased to recognize their achievements."
Knoa EPM monitors application execution from the perspective of the end-user, and provides precise metrics about the user experience while simultaneously measuring how effectively end-users perform with enterprise applications. Designed to deliver end-user insight for both IT and Line-of Business stakeholders, Knoa EPM measures:
The software enables alerting and proactive remediation of end-user issues (system errors, user errors or performance problems), identifies training requirements and highlights process compliance and adoption issues.
"Our recent awards and recognition from both industry luminaries such as CompTIA and the analyst community reinforce and illuminate the customer value of Knoa's innovative technologies," concluded Wizdo.
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About Knoa
Knoa® Software is leading the performance management industry with end-user experience management solutions that reach beyond infrastructure and application performance to monitor, measure and manage how end-users are utilizing the application to optimize business process execution. Knoa customers not only know if core enterprise applications are delivering an acceptable user experience, but also, if application users are executing key processes effectively and efficiently - the key to achieving business value and ROI. Knoa was recently selected by Gartner as a "Cool Vendor", for its capabilities in end-user experience and performance management and was listed as a Leader in the "Forrester Wave: Passive Agent End User Experience Monitoring". Knoa is headquartered in New York, NY. For more information about Knoa, please visit www.knoa.com.
