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Happy Holidays As 2005 draws to a close, let me take this opportunity to thank our valued customers for your business throughout the year. Not only do we wish you and your family the joy of the holidays, but all of us at AlertSite hope this season finds your Web site healthy, your customers happily connected and your business prosperous. All the best in 2006.  President & CEO |
AlertSite in the news
Nov. 29, 2005 TechWeb: Cyber Monday A Dud! Major online retailers comfortably weathered "Cyber Monday." Read more>>
Nov. 28, 2005 Computer Business Review Online: Did shopping appeal more than turkey this Thanksgiving? Americans didn't just eat turkey and give thanks, but instead used their biggest national holiday for some shopping. Read more>>
Nov. 9, 2005 CNN Money: Best Buy goes on the blink: Number one electronics retailer Web site sees mid-day shutdown. Read more>>
Nov. 2, 2005 Tech News World: Software helps sites handle traffic surges in times of crisis. Read more>>
Oct. 11, 2005 Web Host Industry Review: Online merchants have been forced to update payment systems to be PCI compliant. Read more>>How Well Are Major Web Sites
Prepared for the Holiday Rush?
AlertSite Tracks Online Retail Web Site Performance
According to Forrester Research, online sales this holiday season will increase 25 percent over last year, with U.S. online holiday retail sales reaching $18 billion.
Between November 23-December 31 AlertSite will monitor and publish home page response times and availability for retailers such as Amazon.com, eBay, Wal-Mart, BestBuy and Toys-R-Us. The AlertSite Holiday Tracking report provides results for the previous day, and the holiday season-to-date. Observations are collected from six locations throughout the U.S. with measurements performed every 15 minutes between the hours of 6 a.m. and midnight EST, 7 days-a-week. View results >>
Exostar Customer Profile
Read how Exostar benefited from AlertSite monitoring services. Exostar needed to monitor multiple-step business processes with clear and concise reporting capabilities. According to Exostar, "AlertSite had more responsive customer care for Exostar's fast-paced needs, which helped our company address the challenges we were facing while offering a more price-sensitive solution." Read more >>
Do You Need Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance?
As a MasterCard SDP-certified security scanning vendor, AlertSite can provide online merchants with the required scanning to pinpoint areas of non-compliance and properly document PCI compliance once resolved. Retailers who fail to comply with
security standards may face fines, restrictions or permanent prohibition from participating in the card acceptance programs. Visa, American Express and Discover will accept scans performed by scan vendors qualified by MasterCard and will deem a merchant who passes AlertSite's testing as PCI compliant. Read more >>
What's new
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Two new monitoring locations in Cincinnati and Phoenix: New monitoring locations expand AlertSite's monitoring network to 19 worldwide perspectives including 10 in the U.S. See the global monitoring network.>> | |
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Uptime Error Correlation Technology (ECT) Significantly Improved: Uptime ECT is an EXCLUSIVE feature of the AlertSite SLA Monitor and an optional feature of the Business Transaction Monitor. It is designed to support a correlated, real-time view of errors so that alerts are only issued when multiple, configurable, locations detect an error at the same time. Improvements include:
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Subscribe for advance notice of reported Internet issues: If you are an AlertSite forum member, you can view the network events we are currently monitoring. Notices can be viewed in the forum, or e-mailed directly to you. Register for the user forum here. For more information on advance notice subscriptions, click here>> | |
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New Feature: HTTPS/XML Data Services:
The user forums contain several customer requests for a method of integration between AlertSite and customer applications already in place for application status or service level reporting. Our first release allows you to access the information from your Monitoring Console and dynamically generate performance data in XML format.
Read more about how to access these web services here >> | |
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