Linkscan 8.0 - Major Enhancements and New Features Added

The LinkScan family of products deliver industrial-strength test automation and website management capabilities. In addition to extremely high accuracy, LinkScan offers exceptional performance and scalability for extremely large websites and Intranet applications. Advanced customization features allow webmasters and quality assurance engineers to create completely automated test suites.

LinkScan 8.0 incorporates a host of new features including:

• Very substantial internal changes to improve the performance, scalability and reliability of LinkScan. These changes result in significant storage savings with a typical fifty percent reduction in database size.

• Enhancements to the Windows Graphical User Interface (GUI) that make it easier to use.

• On Unix systems, LinkScan now has a direct interface to the OpenSSL package for scanning sites that use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or https://... protocol. On MS Windows systems, LinkScan includes native support for the Secure Sockets Layer.

• Substantially restructured and rewritten the LinkScan documentation which makes them easier to use.

• All of the LinkScan reports have been enhanced with more options, greater flexibility and improved ease of use. These include more formats, sorts by document size, more cross-links between reports and more consistency across reports. Sample reports may be seen at: http://www.elsop.com/linkscan/reports.html

• Introduced LinkScan Excel. LinkScan is shipped with a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet including some macros. This may be used to import portions of the LinkScan database into Excel for further analysis, graphs, charts, totals, averages and comparisons with previous data sets. From Excel, data can be stored in an other database such as SQL-Server.

• We have added several new options/commands that may be used to optimize performance when scanning very large websites with more than 100,000 documents.

• We have included a detailed audit trail of all cookie transactions processed during a scan. This allows organizations to monitor and demonstrate compliance with no cookie policies. Some federal agencies are increasingly making this a requirement.

The LinkScan family of products addresses the complete spectrum of needs at affordable prices ranging from $300 to $5,000. Cross-platform and cross-product compatibility provides seamless migration for rapidly growing organizations while protecting all existing investments. For larger companies in particular, this also means direct cost savings in deployment, user training and system administration.

LinkScan operates on all Unix Systems (including AIX, BSDI, FreeBSD, Digital Unix, HP/UX, IRIX, Linux, and SunOS/Solaris flavors), and Microsoft Windows (95/98/NT/2000) platforms.

Free fully functional evaluation copies of LinkScan 8.0 may be downloaded from the company's website at:

http://www.elsop.com/

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