(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A month after announcing its definitive, $295-million deal to buy web performance monitoring firm Gomez (www.gomez.com), software and consulting provider Compuware Corporation (www.compuware.com) has completed its acquisition of Gomez in a union that could produce the top Software-as-a-Service infrastructure management provider based on revenues.
According to its announcement this week, Compuware and Gomez will deliver an unmatched and unified solution for optimizing enterprise and Internet application performance, with Jaime Ellertson remaining at the helm as the president of Gomez, now the web performance division of Compuware. Along with Ellertson and the complete Gomez leadership team, the acquisition will bring roughly 270 new employees to Compuware.
AutoTrader.com (www.autotrader.com) engineering and systems assurance senior architecture director Cliff Goolsby said his organization uses Compuware and Gomez in concert to ensure its customers experience the highest performance possible. “We use Compuware to gauge responsiveness from inside our enterprise and Gomez to track performance and availability from our customers’ point of view, wherever they are on the Internet,” Goolsby said in a statement. “We’re excited by the vision of integrating the two into the industry’s only end-to-end unified view spanning the enterprise and the Internet.”
Compuware will retain the Gomez brand, technology portfolio and business model, but it will leverage technical, sales and marketing divisions to achieve additional synergies. The acquisition is expected to be operationally accretive this fiscal year, and the combination of both companies’ SaaS revenues will likely make Compuware the world’s leading SaaS infrastructure management provider.
“IDC believes the Gomez/Compuware marriage is a good match with little overlap and lots of upside,” IDC market analysts Mary Johnston Turner and Tim Grieser wrote in a recent report. “With the completion of the acquisition, Compuware will be able to address a customer’s full range of in-house and internet-based application performance management requirements on an end-to-end basis.”
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