CA Technologies acquires WatchMouse B.V.

BANGALORE, INDIA: IT management software and solutions company CA Technologies announced on Tuesday an agreement to acquire privately-held Watchmouse B.V., which is into SaaS-based monitoring for cloud, mobile and traditional Web applications.

According to a press release, WatchMouse solutions utilize a globally-distributed infrastructure of about 60 monitoring stations in nearly 40 countries.

WatchMouse would bolster CA Technologies' CA Application Performance Management (APM) solution, giving large enterprise customers comprehensive and flexible options to manage their applications within a single solution set, the statement added.

With the new technology, customers are assured the ability to quickly identify and resolve application performance issues and keep cloud vendors accountable for their service level agreements (SLAs).

Moreover, the release stated that customers need not install or manage software with an easy-to-use format promised by WatchMouse. It is also promised to be a no upfront payment and no long-term commitments service based on 100 per cent subsciption.

''As companies extend more applications to their customers through the Web and smartphones, the performance of those applications is having a greater impact on revenue, customer loyalty and brand value,'' said David Dobson, executive vice-president, CA Technologies.

He added that they would enable companies to better safeguard the performance of these customer-facing applications, so that they could efficiently manage the performance of their business.

The other terms of the transaction, however, were not disclosed.