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Gomez and Lillian Vernon to Present Ways to 'Avoid Disaster' in Technology Implementations at Internet Retailer Conference

Posted on: Wednesday, 30 May 2007, 12:00 CDT

LEXINGTON, Mass., May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Representatives of Gomez Inc. and retailing giant Lillian Vernon Corp. will detail proven success strategies for major technology implementations next week at the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition 2007 in San Jose, Calif. The session, called "Avoiding Disaster: Managing a Technology Implementation," will take place Tuesday, June 5 from 2:30 to 3 p.m. at the San Jose Convention Center, site of the four-day (June 4-7) conference. Internet Retailer is the world's largest e-retailing show.

Lillian Vernon is a leading 56-year-old national catalog and online retailer that markets gift, household, children's and fashion accessory products. The company's vice president of online, Kristen Montella, will present with Matthew Poepsel, vice president of performance strategies for Gomez Inc., the leader in web application experience management.

The duo will focus on how to manage complex web-based technology installations to ensure they won't disrupt other technologies, and how to effectively address problems. Montella will detail her most illuminating implementation experiences, both at Lillian Vernon and at previous posts, including valuable lessons learned. Poepsel will present best practices for ensuring superior web experiences before, during and after deployment, drawing from his performance management expertise in hundreds of online retail settings.

The complete session description is at: http://www.internetretailer.com/IR2007/agenda_complete.asp#des8.

Poepsel is a popular commentator at events and in the media on the impact of web performance on an organization's brand, whether that organization is a store, a bank, a hotel or a US presidential campaign.

Gomez will be exhibiting at booth number 1122 at the Internet Retailer conference. Attendees can enter the Gomez Challenge to test the speed and availability of their web sites from across the US and compared to other e- retailers. Those with the best-performing sites will win prizes such as Garmin Nuvi GPS Systems, Bose QuietComfort Headsets, and Apple iPods. To pre-register for the challenge, visit http://thegomezchallenge.com/ir2007/. Additional information on the Internet Retailer conference is at: http://www.internetretailer.com/IR2007.

About Gomez

Gomez 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 applications are used by more than 800 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 web application experience from development through deployment and the entire application life cycle, featuring active monitoring, competitive benchmarking, and more than 14,000 data sources worldwide. Gomez is Network Computing magazine's "Editor's Choice" for best Internet performance monitoring service. For more information, please visit http://www.gomez.com/ or de.gomez.com for information in German.

Gomez, Gomez.com and Gomez ExperienceFirst network are trademarks and/or service marks of Gomez, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Gomez Inc.

CONTACT: Cathy O'Leary Hayes of Gomez Inc., +1-781-778-2775,cohayes@gomez.com; or Darby Johnson of Beaupre & Co. Public Relations, Inc.for Gomez Inc., +1-603-559-5809, djohnson@beaupre.com

Web site: http://www.gomez.com/http://thegomezchallenge.com/ir2007

Source: PRNewswire

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