ISLANDIA, N.Y., July 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies
(NASDAQ: CA) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire
privately-held Watchmouse B.V. (WatchMouse), an innovator in
SaaS-based monitoring for cloud, mobile and traditional Web
applications. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
WatchMouse solutions utilize a globally-distributed
infrastructure of more than 60 monitoring stations in more than 40
countries. WatchMouse replicates real-user transactions from these
locations to provide rich, up-to-the-minute insight into
application performance and availability.
With WatchMouse technology, customers of both CA Technologies
Service Assurance and Nimsoft will gain the ability to:
- Proactively manage the end-user experience around the
world;
- Quickly identify and resolve application performance issues;
and,
- Keep cloud vendors accountable for their service level
agreements (SLAs).
Delivered as a SaaS model, WatchMouse solutions provide these
high-value capabilities in an easy-to-use format that doesn't
require customers to install or manage software. WatchMouse is a
100 percent subscription-based service requiring no upfront payment
and no long-term commitments. It also enables customers to get up
and running quickly.
"As companies extend more applications to their customers
through the Web and smartphones, the performance of those
applications is having a greater impact on revenue, customer
loyalty and brand value," said David
Dobson, executive vice president, CA Technologies. "By
adding WatchMouse to our industry-leading portfolio of solutions
for managing and monitoring IT, we are enabling these companies to
better safeguard the performance of these customer-facing
applications—so they can better safeguard the performance of their
business."
WatchMouse will bolster CA Technologies CA Application
Performance Management (APM) solution, giving large enterprise
customers comprehensive and flexible options to manage their
applications within a single solution set. WatchMouse will augment
the Nimsoft IT Management-as-a-Service strategy by enabling
customers to quickly and easily monitor response times for
different types of business services—from the cloud to the data
center.
CA APM and WatchMouse
Trusted by more than 1,500 customers worldwide, CA Technologies
APM solution provides 24/7 monitoring of real end-user transactions
in physical, virtual, cloud and mainframe environments. The
solution enables customers to proactively identify, prioritize and
resolve performance problems before they adversely affect end-user
productivity and highly-critical, revenue-generating
applications.
The WatchMouse solution will be sold as an add-on capability to
the full-featured CA APM solution. Existing CA APM customers can
further extend the value of the solution and gain even deeper
visibility into end-to-end transaction performance, regardless of
where their applications are running—in the data center, outside
the firewall, in the cloud or from a MSP. For customer applications
that do not require a comprehensive APM solution, WatchMouse
provides a fast, easy and cost-effective way to understand the
health, availability and end-user experience.
Nimsoft and WatchMouse
Nimsoft provides integrated IT management solutions for more
than 1,000 enterprise and service provider customers globally. The
company's Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution
that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in
increasingly complex business environments—delivered as a SaaS
solution or enabled on premises. Nimsoft products integrate with
existing solutions at any point from the data center to the cloud
and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis.
The WatchMouse solution will be sold as a standalone capability
to Nimsoft Monitor, giving customers a flexible and cost-effective
way to monitor cloud and traditional applications from outside the
firewall. With the addition of WatchMouse, customers will have the
ability to monitor and validate that their Internet-facing
applications are performing at optimal levels for users around the
world. WatchMouse also extends Nimsoft Monitor by providing
deeper dive, root cause analysis for optimizing slow-performing Web
sites.
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About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management software and
solutions company with expertise across all IT environments—from
mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies
manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to
deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative
products and services provide the insight and control essential for
IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the
Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT
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