Idera, Inc. () is the parent company of a portfolio of brands that offer B2B software including database tools, application development tools,

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, and

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tools. It is headquartered in

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and has offices in

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, and the

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History

Idera was founded in 2000 by Tien Gah "Alan" Lee to create developer tools beginning with the original JSync product. Alan was head of development and secretary of the company. The company was led by President John Mercadante and CFO Matt Jordan. In October 2003 Idera was sold to PointSecure, Inc owned by Rick Pleczko. Rick Pleczko founded BBS Technologies in 2000. The company produced a line of server

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products later under the name Idera, competing for business with Imceda and later Red Gate Software. BBS acquired web hosting backup provider R1Soft in late November 2007. It existed as a separate division until 2012, when its

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product was rolled into the Idera product line as Idera Server Backup 5.0. This restructuring was accompanied by a new "pay-as-you-go" pricing model. The company formally changed its name to Idera, Inc. in January 2012. Idera was acquired by

in September 2014. On May 31, 2017,

bought a controlling stake. On May 23, 2019,

made an investment in Idera.

Subsidiaries

* Precise Software: On July 2, 2013, Idera, Inc. announced the acquisition of Precise Software as a

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, a provider of end-to-end application performance management software. * Uptime Software, a server infrastructure monitoring tool company, was acquired in November 2014. *

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, Inc.: On October 7, 2015, Idera, Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Embarcadero Technologies, Inc., but the Embarcadero mark was retained for the developer tools division. As of October 28, 2015, Embarcadero was listed as 'acquired'. * Gurock, a provider of test case management software, was acquired in June 2016. * AquaFold, a database tools company, was acquired in July 2017. * Sencha, Inc., developers of a pure

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application development framework for desktop and mobile browsers, was acquired in August 2017. *

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, a test-automation software company, was acquired in October 2017. * Webyog, a database management tool provider, was acquired in April 2018. * Froala, editing for rich text and web application tools, was acquired in June 2018. * Whole Tomato, a suite of visual studio productivity tools, was acquired in August 2018. * Kiuwan, a

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for measuring and analyzing security risks in software development, was acquired in October 2018. *

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, a source code management provider, was acquired in November 2018. * LANSA, a low-code application development tool, was acquired in December 2018. *

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, an open-source continuous integration company, was acquired in January 2019. * WhereScape, a provider of data warehouse automation software, was acquired in September 2019. *

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, a data visualization product provider, was acquired in March 2020. * Qubole, a multi-platform

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company, was acquired in October 2020. * apilayer, a provider of real-time data API products, was acquired in January 2021. * PreEmptive, the maker of

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, respectively, was acquired in March 2021. * IDM Computer Solutions, the maker of

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and other applications, was acquired in August of 2021.

Former subsidiaries

* Idera sold its

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business to Metalogix in October 2013.

Products

Idera creates tools designed to support, supplement, and augment the capabilities of

Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. As a database server, it is a software product with the primary function of storing and retrieving data as requested by other software applications—which ma ...

, including SQL Diagnostic Manager, SQL Doctor, and SQL Inventory Manager. The company also offers a

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server backup product known as SQL Safe Backup, which allows hosting providers and others to offer their clients

for their backups. They also offer a number of free tools for SQL Server performance, backup, and diagnostics and for Windows

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Recognition

Idera's software has a number of awards within the SQL Server and IT communities. SQL Toolbox has won several Best of

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Awards and some of their SQL Server offerings have placed in the SQL Server Pro Community Choice Awards. The free tool, PowerShell Plus, has won Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice awards.

References

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