Expanded Link Validation Utility Extends HiSoftware Accessibility, Search and Content Quality Product Lines
New solution deliver essential site management for enterprise Web sites

Concord, NH —January 31, 2003-HiSoftware, Inc., the leader in enterprise content quality management solutions, announced today its Link Validation Utility. The newest addition to the enterprise content quality product family creates additional validation measures for the usability of enterprise Web sites. The Link Validation Utility allows for “spidering” a web site, locating all of the links and reporting whether these links point to valid targets. It assists with quality and accessibility assurance by scanning and analyzing web content for broken links, producing detailed reports to help developers and quality assurance professionals pinpoint and fix content, interaction, and usability defects. This application is designed to be completely accessible to users requiring assistive technology.

HiSoftware content quality solutions provide “out-of-the-box” testing and reporting for Accessibility, Privacy, Searchability and Usability standards, empowering organizations to keep up with ever-changing Web technologies and standards. The value-added Link Validation tool provides structure and organization validation to your site, allowing both content and site structure to be of the highest quality.

The Link Validation Utility allows users to find and fix broken links, broken anchors, and other site defects. It assists in the process of creating a complete “Site Inventory” providing managers with a better understanding of their Web sites with information on site size, file types in use, mail links, and identify where you may be linking to third party sites.

The link validation utility provides critical web site management capabilities to Web Managers concerned with usability, accessibility, privacy and searchability of their Web sites. Broken links and missing images can create a negative experience for users of a Web site. As Web sites increase in size, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep an accurate inventory of content that has been changed over time. Additionally, many search engines rate the “popularity” of a page, based on the number of links that reference a particular page. Inadvertent “overuse” of links to a particular page may unintentionally skew search results.

The utility is available for download from HiSoftware, with a basic version available at no cost, and will also be available as a licensed application integrated across HiSoftware’s product lines. More information is available at: http://www.hisoftware.com/linkvalidate/index.html .


ABOUT HISOFTWARE
HiSoftware Company, the leader in enterprise content quality management solutions, provides innovative products that empower quality assurance teams, content developers, Web site architects, and company executives to work collaboratively on their efforts to create and manage corporate Web standards for Accessibility, Privacy, Searchability, Usability and custom guidelines and policies. HiSoftware’s integrated, full lifecycle solutions dramatically reduce the time required to test, manage and deploy e-business Web sites.

HiSoftware works closely with industry leaders and visionaries to provide solutions for today's information accessibility, content quality, search and retrieval needs. HiSoftware’s customers represent Fortune 500 companies, and many of the largest e-commerce, government, and educational sites in North America and around the world and include ChevronTexaco, Commerce One, Mercury Interactive, and Microsoft Government.

Founded in 1998, HiSoftware Company maintains North American corporate headquarters in Concord, New Hampshire. Further information about HiSoftware can be found online at www.hisoftware.com

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