AppDynamics is a
full-stack application performance management
In the fields of information technology and systems management, application performance management (APM) is the monitoring and management of the performance and availability of software applications. APM strives to detect and diagnose complex appl ...
(APM) and
IT operations analytics In the fields of information technology (IT) and systems management, IT operations analytics (ITOA) is an approach or method to retrieve, analyze, and report data for IT operations. ITOA may apply big data analytics to large datasets to produce bus ...
(ITOA) company based in
San Francisco
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. The company focuses on managing the performance and availability of applications across
cloud computing
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environments,
IT infrastructure
Information technology infrastructure is defined broadly as a set of information technology (IT) components that are the foundation of an IT service; typically physical components (computer and networking hardware and facilities), but also variou ...
,
network architecture
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, digital
user experience design
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,
application security
Application security (short AppSec) includes all tasks that introduce a secure software development life cycle to development teams. Its final goal is to improve security practices and, through that, to find, fix and preferably prevent security ...
threat detection,
observability
Observability is a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs.
In control theory, the observability and controllability of a linear system are mathematical duals.
The concept of observa ...
, and data centers. In March 2017, AppDynamics was acquired by Cisco for $3.7 billion.
The
software intelligence Software Intelligence is insight into the structural condition of software assets produced by software designed to analyze database structure, software framework and source code to better understand and control complex software systems in Informatio ...
platform is used in enterprise and public sector
SaaS
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SaaS is cons ...
applications such as the financial service sector, healthcare, telecom, manufacturing, and government for full-stack observability and IT infrastructure monitoring.
History and founding
AppDynamics was founded in 2008 by
Jyoti Bansal
Jyoti Bansal is an Indian-American technology entrepreneur. He founded his first company AppDynamics in April 2008, and went on to serve as CEO until 2015. AppDynamics was purchased by Cisco Systems for $3.7 billion, a day before AppDynamics was d ...
, a former lead software architect at
Wily Technologies, a provider of application performance management technology.
[Demery, Paul. (February 26, 2010)]
"Priceline Finds a Way to Monitor its Wide World of Applications."
''InternetRetailer''. Retrieved September 7, 2011. AppDynamics received five rounds of funding totaling $206.5 Million.
In 2016, AppDynamics was ranked #9 on the
Forbes
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Cloud 100 list.
In January 2017, Cisco announced their intention to acquire AppDynamics for $3.7 billion, just days before a planned
IPO
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of the company. The move was seen as a continuation of Cisco's strategy of growing its software oriented business.
In March 2017, Cisco completed the acquisition of AppDynamics. AppDynamics is currently headed by Linda Tong as an independent business unit within Cisco's IoT and Applications business.
Industry Recognition
AppDynamics has been a leader in the APM market for more than eight years, and was ranked first in
Gartner's 2020 Magic Quadrant Report for APM in the category of "ability to execute." As part of Cisco, it got and Fortune's top 5 Best Places to Work in 2020.
Controversies
On April 10, 2013,
CA Technologies
CA Technologies, formerly known as CA, Inc. and Computer Associates International, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in New York City. It is primarily known for its business-to-business (B2B) software with a product po ...
(formerly Computer Associates) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District in New York. The lawsuit claims that AppDynamics violated three patents that came into CA Technologies' possession through acquisitions. This was the second action CA Technologies filed in connection with alleged infringement of patents obtained in the acquisition of Wily Technology. In November 2012, CA Technologies filed a lawsuit asserting patent infringement of the same three APM patents against software company,
New Relic
New Relic is a San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the ...
. On April 20, 2015, AppDynamics and CA settled the two-year-old patent dispute. AppDynamics said that it paid a "modest fixed payment."
Partnership with IBM
AppDynamics and IBM have a collaboration using Z APM Connect with AppDynamics’ Map iQ and Diagnostic iQ, to provide mainframe transaction visibility.
Notes
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.appdynamics.com
Unofficial AppDynamics Wiki - Service Monitoring Library
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