August 27, 2010; 08:51 AM
OPNET Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:OPNT), a leading provider of IT Service
Assurance solutions, announced that it has acquired substantially all the
assets associated with the DSAuditor product line from Embarcadero
Technologies, Inc., a privately held software company headquartered in San
Francisco, CA. The acquisition contributes key capabilities to OPNET's
product portfolio for applicatio performance management
(APM).
DSAuditor is a software product that provides deep visibility
into database activity and performance, delivering detailed insight into
its impact on end-to-end application performance. It passively monitors
a broad range of metrics, capturing high level business information
such as database usage by application, as well as low-level forensic
data for troubleshooting. DSAuditor enables IT organizations to
diagnose performance problems more quickly, and to optimize performance
by analyzing database structure and usage.
According to Alain Cohen,
OPNET President and CTO, "OPNET is recognized for the breadth of our
application performance management solutions, with real-time end-to-end
visibility obtained from multiple sources including application components,
the network, and the end-user experience. The DSAuditor software further
expands our breadth, while also providing detailed, fine-grained information
that is critical for accurately determining root cause. These attributes --
breadth and depth -- are key to the High Definition approach to APM that
is embodied by our products."
Other solutions in OPNET's High
Definition APM(TM) suite include OPNET Panorama(R) and ACE Live(TM). Panorama
extracts vast amounts of performance and forensic data to support APM from
the server perspective. It continuously monitors thousands of system
and application metrics within each server, across all application
tiers, and automatically spots performance anomalies. Its patented
correlation technology automatically detects patterns in metrics and
events, revealing cause-and-effect relationships and pinpointing issues
that might otherwise go undetected.
ACE Live is an appliance-based
solution that monitors and analyzes end-user experience as well as the
underlying network infrastructure. It provides complete visibility of
transactions and users across the enterprise, with detailed real-time and
historical information about end-user response times, utilization, route
quality, ISP performance, and traffic patterns. On-board analytics extract
user-level transactions from network traffic, and break down application
response time, identifying which components are contributing most to
delays.
"DSAuditor is a natural fit for our solution suite, offering
numerous options to enhance and extend APM work flows," stated Dr. Ed
Sykes, OPNET Sr. Vice President and Chief Scientist. "For example, a user
of ACE Live observing a slow end-user transaction could determine
with DSAuditor the issue at the SQL transaction level that is causing
the delay. In the case of Panorama, its patented analytics could
correlate data from DSAuditor with metrics for other application tiers to
detect and diagnose performance anomalies. This is an exciting
new differentiator for OPNET, since most other APM suites lack
adequate database performance insight."
Commenting further, Cohen
stated, "Our philosophy in application performance management is what we call
'high definition': the broadest coverage of the end-to-end view, the deepest
set of rich and complementary data sources, industry-leading analytics of
each component, all integrated and correlated into a service assurance
view. The DSAuditor technology allows us to extend the OPNET APM Suite
to include a high definition approach to database transaction
monitoring."
The transaction is expected to have a near neutral impact on
GAAP earnings per share for the current fiscal year ending March 31,
2011, and become accretive to OPNET's GAAP earnings per share next
fiscal year. OPNET plans to bring DSAuditor capabilities to market as
an integrated part of its APM suite in calendar year 2010.
About OPNET
Technologies, Inc.
Founded in 1986, OPNET Technologies, Inc.
(Nasdaq:OPNT) is a leading provider of IT Service Assurance solutions. For
more information about OPNET and its products, please visit www.opnet.com.
OPNET, OPNET Technologies,
Inc., OPNET Panorama, ACE Live, and DSAuditor are trademarks of OPNET
Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.
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facts may constitute forward-looking statements as defined in the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. OPNET Technologies,
Inc. ("OPNET") assumes no obligation to update statements.
Forward-looking statements are predictions based upon information available
to OPNET as of the date of this press release and involve risks and
uncertainties; therefore, actual events or results may differ materially. For
a discussion of risk factors, see OPNET's reports, including its
most recent 10-Q and 10-K, filed with the Securities & Exchange
Commission.
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