Deal Radar 2009: Apptio

Founded in 2007, Apptio is a provider of on-demand IT cost transparency solutions. It provides IT financial management (ITFM) software that helps CIOs run the business of IT. Apptio’s software provides greater visibility into the full cost to deliver IT Services, helps companies optimize their costs, improves productivity by automating key IT financial management processes

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Deal Radar 2009: Nimsoft

Founded in 2002, Nimsoft is a leading provider of service level management (SLM). It develops and sells software to monitor and manage IT systems. In October 2009, the Redwood City, California-based company extended its reach with Unified Monitoring, solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources.

Deal Radar 2009: AppSense

AppSense is a user environment management (UEM) software solutions provider for user profile management, optimized application response, application feature lock down, protection from unauthorized applications, reduced logon/logoff times, and virtual and contextual desktops. Founded in 1999, the company is based in Daresbury, the United Kingdom, and has offices in London, New York, Melbourne, and Munich.

Deal Radar 2009: Service-now.com

San Diego-based Service-now.com was founded in 2003 out of the ashes of Peregrine Systems, which was purchased by Hewlett-Packard (and is now that company’s competitor) in a fire sale. Fred Luddy, who was the CTO of Peregrine Systems, believed that legacy enterprise IT software is akin to “customer abuse” and set out to build a

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