New Relic, the SaaS-based cloud application performance management provider, today announced that AppDirect, a platform that allows businesses to find, buy and manage web-based applications, has added New Relic to their growing world-class application marketplace and will offer New Relic Standard to customers free of charge as part of its network of marketplaces hosted by large brands such as Bell, Appcelerator, and Sasktel. Organizations offering AppDirect's marketplace to their end users can automatically make New Relic’s proven real-time application performance management capabilities available to their customers free of charge.

AppDirect is a Business Application Network that allows organizations to easily find the perfect software solution for their needs through application marketplaces. Businesses benefit from one bill for all their applications and one portal to manage and use them. This allows greater integration, ease of use and security for application management. The availability of New Relic in the marketplace bundle of critical services will allow organization to offer it as a critical capability to end users for ensuring their applications are meeting business and performance goals.

"We are excited to be making New Relic available to organizations as one of the many world-class offerings in the AppDirect App Market" said Paul Arnautoff, Director of Business Development at AppDirect. "New Relic will be available to organizations as part of a comprehensive and essential bundle of solutions to be sold by industry leaders such as Bell, Appcelerator, Sasktel and many more to come. New Relic's real-time visibility into production applications, real user experiences and server resources combines with the other tools in the bundle to create an invaluable solution for organizations building, deploying and managing business critical web applications."

"New Relic and AppDirect share a common vision and passion for helping organizations acquire the tools and skills they need to deliver superior online service," said Bill Lapcevic, New Relic's vice-president of business development. "By creating an invaluable resource through which companies can easily and rapidly take advantage of leading technologies, this partnership is a testament to the power of SaaS and it's ability you change the way companies do business."

AppDirect customers and customers of their network of hosted marketplaces can take advantage of free New Relic Standard right away. Go to the New Relic profile in the AppDirect App Market and signup! You can also find New Relic in the Appcelerator, Bell and Sasktel marketplaces. After the one-minute signup process, customers have immediate access to a rich set of performance data for their business-critical applications.