Marqui Doubles Web Performance with Strangeloop Networks(TM) AS1000 Application Scaling Appliance

Leading Marketing Automation and Web Content Management Company Accelerates Web Performance on its Microsoft ASP.NET Applications

Strangeloop Networks(TM) Inc., a leading provider of framework-specific solutions that accelerate dynamic Web applications, today announced that Marqui, a leading provider of on-demand marketing automation and Web content management software, has deployed Strangeloop's AS1000 Application Scaling Appliance and has doubled Website performance on its Microsoft ASP.NET applications.

Marqui provides easy-to-use Web content management and an integrated suite of online marketing tools to more than 300 customers across North America. Through its software-as-a-service model, Marqui helps their clients manage and edit their Website content and grow their brand and online marketing efforts through real-time campaign management, search engine optimization, site search, customer relationship management, and Web analytics. Marqui also hosts their clients' Websites, providing a complete Web marketing solution.

"Our customers are trusting us with not only their management solution, but more critically, their online presence, so end-user experience is extremely important to us. We built Marqui on ASP.NET to take advantage of rapid feature deployment and to provide a rich user experience. Our challenge is to continually add new features that make it faster and easier for our clients to design and execute online marketing programs, all the while ensuring exceptional performance," said Jackie Reid, Marqui's Vice President of client services. "With the Strangeloop AS1000 Application Scaling Appliance in place, our customers saw immediate performance improvements on their Web pages, and we doubled the number of hosted Website customers on our application server, all while freeing up our developers to concentrate on building additional feature sets rather than worrying about performance issues."

Designed as an easy to deploy network appliance, the Strangeloop AS1000 sits between the Web servers and the network, and requires no changes to a company's infrastructure or to the applications themselves. The Strangeloop AS1000 appliance uses framework-specific application acceleration techniques to boost the performance of dynamic Web applications built with Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX.

"Marqui is a unique user of the Strangeloop AS1000 because they are both providing an online service and hosting customers' Websites, all based on Microsoft ASP.NET framework. Developing and supporting these highly dynamic, Web 2.0 applications is a difficult challenge. Marqui is dedicated to providing its clients exceptional Website performance, 24/7," said Jonathan Bixby, Strangeloop's chief executive officer. "Marqui's ability to successfully fulfill its customers' application needs while vastly improving their own scalability underscores the ability of the AS1000 to allow ASP.NET applications to perform and scale, easily and efficiently, even under rigorous environments."

About Marqui

Marqui enables customers to stand out from the crowd by providing innovative Web marketing technology that helps align sales and marketing teams and execute closed-loop marketing activities. Marqui's on-demand platform empowers customers to control their online brand and messaging, generate leads and revenue, and evaluate and optimize online campaigns. More than 300+ organizations have leveraged Marqui to successfully grow their brand and online campaigns through effective Web content management, SEO, site search, CRM, and analytics. Marqui's growing customer list includes: the Phoenix Suns, Ford Motor Company, Honda, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Lakeland College, Roper Bioscience, CruiseWest, Grouse Mountain, BC Ferries, the David Suzuki Foundation, and the United Way. Marqui is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner. For more information please visit us at www.marqui.com.

About Strangeloop Networks

Strangeloop Networks accelerates dynamic Web applications with unique, framework-specific solutions that require no changes to software coding or hardware infrastructure and that frees developers to focus on providing enterprises with value-added features. With the Strangeloop AS1000 appliance for Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX, enterprises dramatically shorten code cycles, improve application performance and throughput, more efficiently use bandwidth, achieve greater return on their investment in information technology (IT) staff and network resources and boost customer satisfaction. Strangeloop is based in Vancouver, B.C. For more information, visit www.strangeloopnetworks.com.