The acquisition of Indicative Software adds business service management and end-user response time monitoring capabilities to Nimsoft's suite of solutions for network monitoring, server monitoring, database monitoring, application monitoring and service level management.

Indicative Software offers service-modeling, real user response time monitoring and application analysis capabilities for J2EE and .NET based applications. Both products are said to significantly cut data center operation costs.

The monitoring market is currently dominated by four large vendors, HP, IBM, BMC Software and CA, which are collectively known as "The Big 4." However, customers have long been complaining about the complexity of these vendors, resulting in large amounts of professional services and expensive products that are dated and over-engineered for today's requirements.

Nimsoft says it provides a high return on investment for its more than 550 customers, and in many cases, relieves their burden of trying to maintain complicated and expensive solutions by directly replacing them. The acquisition of Indicative Software enables Nimsoft to continue delivering a single, scalable solution that enables customers to centrally manage both virtual and physical IT infrastructure.
 
"Nimsoft has built its business by delivering against customer needs and our customers wanted us to expand into BSM so they could completely replace their incumbents," says Read. "This acquisition adds strategic technology, development resources, partners and customers to Nimsoft, enabling us to accelerate our rebellion against what we consider to be broken promises by the incumbents."