AppDynamics was an American full-stack application performance management (APM) and IT operations analytics (ITOA) company based in San Francisco. In 2017, it was acquired by Cisco, which later merged it into Splunk in 2025.
History
AppDynamics was founded in 2008 by Jyoti Bansal, a former lead software architect at Wily Technologies, a provider of application performance management technology.[2] AppDynamics received five rounds of funding totaling $206.5 Million.[3]
On April 10, 2013, CA Technologies (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.[4] 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. On April 20, 2015, AppDynamics and CA settled the two-year-old patent dispute. AppDynamics said that it paid a "modest fixed payment."[5]
In January 2017, Cisco acquired AppDynamics for $3.7 billion, just days before a planned IPO of the company. In March 2017, Cisco completed the acquisition of AppDynamics.[6]
References
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- ^ Harzog, Bernd. (May 4, 2010). "AppDynamics Raises an $11 Million Series B Round – Confirms APM 2.0 Opportunity." The Virtualization Practice. Retrieved September 8, 2011. Deprecated link archived 5 February 2013 at archive.today
- ^ Smythe, Christie (11 April 2013). "CA Technologies Sues AppDynamics Over IT Patents". Bloomberg News.
- ^ Dulaney, Chelsey (20 April 2015). "AppDynamics, CA Inc. Settle Two-Year-Old Patent Dispute". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
- ^ "Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire AppDynamics". Cisco. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
