Quest Software
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| Industry | Software |
| Fate | Acquired by Francisco Partners & Elliott Management Corporation |
| Founded | Newport Beach, California, United States (1987) |
| Headquarters | Aliso Viejo, California, United States |
| Products | TOAD, Windows management tools (Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, Systems Center, SQL Server, etc.), Database Tools (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, MySQL), Application management (Java, .NET, monitoring, etc.), Virtualization (server and desktop), Cloud automation and data protection. |
| Website | quest |
Quest Software is a software company headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. Founded in 1987, Quest develops and supports software used to simplify IT management.
The company is known for Toad, a product used by database professionals, in addition to other offerings for Microsoft Azure cloud management, software as a service, security, workforce mobility and data-driven insight. The company had technology for virtualization, cloud automation and backup and recovery.
Quest had a more than 40 offices in 17 countries with a customer base of more than 100,000.
Quest Software was acquired by Dell in 2012, for $2.36 billion to form the Dell Software division.[2] In June 2016, Dell announced the sale of their software division, including the Quest business, to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management Corporation. On October 31, 2016, the sale was finalized.
On November 1, 2016, the sale of Dell Software to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management was completed and the company relaunched as Quest Software, known in the marketplace as Quest.
Quest has a strong alliance with Microsoft, but also competes with them in some areas like Identity Management. Quest uses a distributor go to market model through Arrow and TechData. Key partners include Dell, CDW, Insight, SHI and Softchoice.
Quest offers product for database management, data protection, Microsoft platform management, endpoint management and identity and access management. Quest's application management products focus on enterprise resource planning (ERP), Java EE and Microsoft .NET. Quest was a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring in 2011.
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