It’s last week’s news but it’s got long-term benefits, so in case you missed it CA announced a definitive agreement to acquire Nimsoft, an IT performance and availability monitoring vendor that has done some very clever engineering and has cracked the code on serving the “emerging enterprise” segment in a very repeatable way.
Let’s call out the elephant in the room: Nimsoft has capabilities in several of the same categories as the CA Service Assurance portfolio, namely performance and availability. While true, the existing CA product lines in this category (crossing eHealth, Spectrum, Wily, NetQoS…) are architected for very large and complex enterprise, government and service provider environments. Nimsoft has a bull’s eye on the emerging enterprise—think of companies between $300M and $2B in annual revenue—and has focused for the last several years on the technology, sales channel and partners to become a compelling player in that IT ecosystem.
Sure, there’s bound to be a little overlap as some large companies don’t share the enterprise management needs that their revenue might lead you to believe. And there are some emerging enterprises that have very complex technical and scaling requirements and need a solution you might think only a Fortune 500 company could use.
So before you ask – “What you talkin’ bout CA?” – we think Nimsoft will enable CA to proudly reach a whole new variety of customers with a solution and approach designed for their specific needs.
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