eCornell Selects Gomez to Enhance Online Professional Learning Experiences


LEXINGTON, Mass., Dec. 18 -- eCornell, Cornell University's Online Professional Development subsidiary, is deploying the Gomez® ExperienceFirst(TM) platform to ensure its students receive a first-class online learning experience, no matter where, when or how they log-in.

eCornell, which delivers thousands of online professional development courses to executives around the world, was seeking a solution to ensure the accessibility, consistency, and responsiveness of its website services. Using Gomez's Active Network XF(TM) and Active Last Mile XF(TM) services, eCornell is now able to test its website performance from 80+ globally-located Internet backbone nodes, as well as from more than 30,000 end-user desktops at different connection speeds, ISPs, and geographies.

"The ability to consistently access course materials, interact with peers, and communicate with instructors is critical to the eCornell learning experience," said Alan McCarty, Director, Learning Technology. "We have to know that our learners have unhindered access to our courses and support regardless of their location or Internet provider. The ability to test our site performance from multiple ISP backbones and thousands of last-mile nodes around the world has delivered great value."

About eCornell

eCornell provides many of the world's leading organizations with online, asynchronous, professional and executive development in the areas of strategy, leadership and management development, human resources, financial management, and hospitality management. Its proven course development model and instructor-led course delivery provide for engaging, rigorous, and interactive learning. For more information, please visit http://www.ecornell.com/.

About Gomez

Gomez, Inc. is the leading provider of on-demand web application experience management solutions, helping the world's top businesses ensure quality web experiences for their customers. Gomez® ExperienceFirst(TM) applications are used by more than 1,000 companies worldwide, including eight of the top 10 most visited sites, six of the top 10 retailers, nine of the top 10 financial services firms, five of the top 10 social networking companies, and four of the top 10 industrial companies. Founded in 1997, Gomez provides the industry's only complete solution for managing the web application experience from development through deployment and the entire application life cycle, featuring active monitoring, competitive benchmarking, and more than 30,000 data sources worldwide. For more information, please visit www.gomez.com/.

Source: Gomez, Inc.

CONTACT:
Samantha McGarry
of Gomez, Inc.,
+1-781-778-2783,
smcgarry@gomez.com
Web site: www.gomez.com/
http://www.ecornell.com/

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