Keynote Acquires Hudson Williams Europe

Keynote Systems (www.keynote.com), provider in e-business performance management services, today announced the acquisition of Hudson Williams B.V., a privately held e-business performance consulting firm based in the Netherlands. Hudson Williams B.V. was originally the European subsidiary of Hudson Williams, Inc., an e-business performance management consultancy acquired by Keynote in July 2004.

Peter van Gils, the founder and CEO of Hudson Williams B.V., founded the consultancy in 1998 and will join Keynote as the director of European service level management (SLM) services. Terms of this non-material acquisition, Keynote's 12th, were not disclosed.

Hudson Williams Netherlands' team of four highly trained and experienced consultants, all of whom are joining Keynote, provide sophisticated services for assessing, tuning and testing the performance of Web applications and infrastructures with specialized knowledge and focus on integrating Keynote's growing portfolio of SLM solutions with SAS®, a leading supplier of business intelligence software.

The acquisition is important as it represents Keynote's first European consulting operation focused entirely on Keynote's SLM solutions, which help enterprises effectively manage IT system health and its impact on e-business service levels and user satisfaction.

The Hudson Williams B.V. team includes experts in application architecture, networking and server technology, as well as IT financial management. The firm brings depth, focus and experience to its enterprise customers for addressing the increasing challenges of running high performance online applications 24/7/365.