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Plymouth, MN – (12/10/2007) – Dotcom-Monitor, the leader and innovator in advanced website monitoring services, announces real-time video stream functionality monitoring, a new option for its innovative and indispensable website monitoring service.

Dotcom-Monitor, the leader and innovator in advanced website monitoring services, today announced the debut of its new monitoring station in Texas, United States. The station, one of eleven owned and operated by Dotcom-Monitor around the world, creates an even greater degree of assurance for the company's e-business, Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Application Service Provider (ASP) clients that their Internet services are performing at maximum effectiveness.

The advent of electronic business and its worldwide expansion has inevitably brought its own problems. Surges in volumes of ecommerce transactions have meant delays and outages with overloading of systems and networks — resulting in bad press, lost revenues, and poor public perception. Performance and availability suffers when an e-business site is not prepared to receive the workload generated by its customers. As the entire business of online vendors heavily depends upon the behavior of their sites, long waiting periods or downtime can prove disastrous.

The Software Management Institute (SMI) is an International association of professional managers involved in creating or maintaining software applications. The SMI works in conjunction with industry leaders to provide management resources, services, research, educational programs and events to its members and the software management community. The SMI also offer the Software Management Professional (SMP) certification, the most respected executive level IT certification in the industry. The SMI and Dotcom Monitor work together to provide their members with the most up to date and relevant information regarding website monitoring and production stability.

The background
Enterprises worldwide have embraced ‘Web services‘ as the preferred middleware technology for integrating their Web-enabled, e-business applications. Hundreds of Web service sites offer very useful services that provide essential components for running B2B or B2C e-business applications. Many enterprises outsource items ranging from security services for their plants and offices to outsource packing and forwarding, or even cleaning services. Specialized Web service companies provide the latest exchange rates for any combination of the 100+ countries they cater to. Web service companies have hundreds of B2B or B2C e-commerce/e-business clients who need their services (on a 24x7 basis) for running their non-stop global businesses.

Business through the internet has expanded by leaps and bounds and continues to do so. With opening up of the world economies e-business has become truly global for buyers and sellers alike. Also keeping pace are the associated problems that are both technical and non-technical in nature. The prime concern for any e-business is secure and efficient handling of run away transaction volumes at acceptable response levels. Congested networks are causing delays, even outages. Slow downloading time is one of the main reasons potential on-line customers switch web sites.

Dotcom-Monitor has just added Sydney as its newest web server monitoring location, bringing executive class monitoring to Australia.

"Companies need to know how their web sites respond to customer usage," says Vadim Mazo, CEO of Dotcom-Monitor. "Adding the Sydney monitoring station means they will now be alerted if their web site is inaccessible or slow to Australian customers."

PROBLEM: Customers complaining about site outages and slow site response times. Hosting company claiming that the problems had been resolved. Customers remaining dissatisfied.

METHODOLOGY: External website monitoring on a page-by-page basis at one-minute intervals pinpointed the problems.

New Service Helps Enterprises Pinpoint Problems, Ensure Peak Performance; Data Can be Collected for Any Internal, Server-Based Service or Application

New Monitoring Station Extends Company's Geographic Coverage, Ensuring Maximum Worldwide Performance Testing/Analysis of Mission-Critical Business Websites

Monitoring responsiveness is important if you want to ensure the accessibility and availability of your site, and many online tools are available to evaluate Web site performance.