Press Release
Instantis SiteWand Attains Prestigious SunTone(SM) Certified Status
Instantis SiteWand Meets SunTone(SM) Program's Availability, Robustness, Reliability and Performance Standards
Sunnyvale, CA — October 16, 2001 — With customers increasingly interested in robust, mission-critical hosted solutions, certification through independent testing has become an essential requirement of solution providers' offerings. Instantis, a pioneer in the automation of Web applications, recently received certification of its SiteWand V2.5 Web application generation solution under the SunTone(SM) Certification and Branding Program for applications.
The Instantis solution allows organizations to add customized business processes to their websites, enabling a wide range of interactions with customers, prospects, and partners up to ten times faster than either enterprise software packages or traditional Web programming methods.
"We congratulate Instantis on achieving certification for its SiteWand application," said Peter Young, Vice President of Market Development and SunTone Certification for Applications at Sun. "By using applications that have received SunTone certification, customers can be confident that the applications have been evaluated and judged to be reliable and of high quality. We are pleased to add Instantis as a new member of the over 150 SunTone Certified solutions available today."
"Executives are being very cautious about new IT purchases, and are seeking out the most reliable vendors for both technology and outsourcing," stated Prasad Raje, CEO of Instantis. "We are very pleased to receive SunTone certification for SiteWand. We have built our business model and technology around a rigorous set of practices that are designed to ensure the high performance, reliability and security necessary to support enterprise-class Web applications. SiteWand's SunTone certification underscores our commitment to provide high quality solutions and services to our customers, running on Sun's proven network computing platform."
Instantis provides hosted delivery of the company's business automation solution to its customers, utilizing an array of Sun systems, running on the Solaris(TM) Operating Environment that support both the company's application - a distributed and scalable Java(TM) technology server application that incorporates complex load balancing and fail-over capabilities as well as database services utilized by the application.