United States : Compuware acquires Gomez Inc for $295 million.Compuware Corporation (company) Compuware Corporation - A software and service company with over 11,000 employees worldwide, including more than 7,000 in its professional services organisation. Since 1973, Compuware has focused on optimising business software development, testing, and operation. , the software company that develops software for programs running on mainframe computers and distributed client-server systems Client-server system A computing system that is composed of two logical parts: a server, which provides services, and a client, which requests them. The two parts can run on separate machines on a network, allowing users to access powerful server resources , has agreed to acquire Web-software developer Gomez Inc for $295 million in cash to become the world's leading software service infrastructure management provider. Detroit -based Compuware Corporation, which had sales of $1.1 billion for fiscal 2009, with more than 23,000 customers around the world, including 70 per cent are of Fortune 500 companies and 95 of the Fortune 100 companies, said yesterday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Gomez, Inc. for $295 million cash. Headquartered in Massachusetts Massachusetts (măsəch  `sĭts), most populous of the New England states of the NE United States. , privately held Gomez with revenue
of $47 million in fiscal 2008, is the leader in Web application
experience management, providing an on-demand platform that
organizations use to optimize optimize - optimisation the performance, availability, and quality
of their Web and mobile applications.
It has over 2,500 customers worldwide, ranging from small companies to large enterprises, including 12 of the top 20 most visited US Web sites. Consumers use Gomez to increase revenue, build brand loyalty, and decrease costs. The Gomez platform identifies business-impacting issues by testing and measuring Web applications from the "outside-in" - across all users, browsers, devices, and geographical locations - using a global network of over 100,000 locations. The self-service Gomez platform integrates Web load testing Load testing is the process of creating demand on a system or device and measuring its response. In mechanical systems it refers to the testing of a system to certify it under the appropriate regulations (LOLER in the UK - Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment , Web performance management, cross-browser testing, and Web performance business analysis. "Together, Compuware and Gomez provide the industry's only unified Application Performance Management solution, spanning the Enterprise and Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the ," said Compuware president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. Bob Paul. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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