Rational acquires NeuVis, Inc.

BANGALORE: Rational Software has acquired NeuVis, Inc., of Shelton, Connecticut, a technology provider of n-tier application development software. The privately held company was founded by Arun Gupta and Rajiv Uppal in 1999. A total of 26 former NeuVis employees have joined Rational and will play a key role in Rational’s strategy to help its enterprise IT customers build business applications.

NeuVis flagship product is a model-driven application development tool for creating agile, enterprise-class, n-tier applications that support Rational’s existing product line. "We’re very excited to welcome the NeuVis team to Rational. They are a world-class team with excellent technology," said Mike Devlin, CEO and co-founder of Rational Software. "We see the addition of the NeuVis technology as a strong complement to our strategy to support the major industry IDEs, such as those from Microsoft and IBM", he added.

"We re excited to see Rational expanding its capabilities into the n-tier business application development tools market through its acquisition of NeuVis", said Jon Roskill, General Manager, Solutions Marketing Group at Microsoft Corporation.