The 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, which started on June 7th, will be among the most viewed sporting events of the year with millions of viewers following their favourite team’s progress online on individual websites across Europe. As the players battle it out on the pitch, the HP Software-as-a-Service team will launch an online website tournament, “Euro 2008 Website Championship,” which will run in parallel to Euro 2008 and will measure how well websites from selected European countries perform in relation to one another.
Mahmoud Mounir, Software Director, HP Middle East said, “Businesses need to ensure their web-based applications deliver the desired end-user experience through implementing a comprehensive applications management strategy. It will be interesting to review the performance and the quality of end-user experience of selected websites during Euro 2008.”
The monitoring campaign will utilise HP’s Software-as-a-Service for Quality Center which provides organisations with a hosted test management applications and ongoing mentoring on best practices. HP Quality Center is designed to address the wide-ranging challenges that quality assurance professionals face. By leveraging consistent, repeatable and standardised processes Quality Center helps turn application quality into a competitive advantage.
The winning country will be announced at the end of the online website tournament. Participating countries in the Euro 2008 Website Championship include all those that have qualified for the championships: Austria, Czech Republic, Romania, Netherlands, Spain, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Russia, Greece, Switzerland and England and also an additional group of non-qualifiers Norway, Finland, Denmark, Belgium and England.
Regular results of the Euro 2008 Website Championship can be followed on a dedicated HP microsite that will be announced on Monday, June 9, 2008.
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HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers – from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world’s largest IT companies, with revenue totaling $110.4 billion for the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2008. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.
About HP Middle East
HP is the largest technology and solutions provider in the Middle East with 1100 employees and subsidiaries in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Cairo, Ramallah, Qatar, Oman and 2 service Joint Ventures in Kuwait and Bahrain servicing the GCC, Egypt and the Levant. HP has been present in the Middle East since 1968 and opened its first regional office in 1994. HP Middle East is the market leader for enterprise, small and medium business and consumer technology products and offers a large portfolio of solutions and services in various business domains.
More information about HP in the Middle East is available at www.hp.com/me
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