Rocket Software annonce l'acquisition d'Aldon

Emeryville, CA—March-22-2011—Rocket Software today announced that it has acquired Emeryville, California-based Aldon. Aldon is now branded as Rocket Aldon, and is a business unit of Rocket Software. Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed.

Aldon provides application lifecycle management (ALM) for the business of IT by offering flexible ALM for complex environments, simplified ALM for complex work, and uncomplicated ALM for complete visibility and collaboration. Aldon's customer base includes over 1,300 companies worldwide, including over 70 of the Fortune 100, who use Aldon to manage their global IT business and operations processes, including application development, network operations, and services management.

Andy Youniss, President and CEO of Rocket Software, said that "Rocket is strategically expanding each of our four enterprise software and solution segments, and Aldon fits perfectly alongside our LegaSuite and BlueZone businesses in our Application Development, Integration, and Modernization segment. Aldon's strengths in application lifecycle management and expertise in the IBM i platform expand existing Rocket capabilities, which will allow us to bring more value to our customers.

"We are excited about this opportunity to join premier enterprise software leader Rocket Software, a company with shared core values and a sharp focus on delivering enterprise products and solutions," said Matt Scholl, CEO and President of Aldon. "With Rocket, we look to dramatically extend our market reach and realize the full potential of all of our technologies while protecting investments of Aldon's customers now and into the future." With this acquisition, Scholl joins Rocket as General Manager and Business Area Executive of Rocket Aldon.

à propos du logiciel Rocket

Rocket Software est une société internationale de développement logiciel qui conçoit des produits et fournit des solutions d'entreprise dans les domaines suivants: veille stratégique et analytique ; stockage, réseaux et conformité ; développement, intégration et modernisation d'applications ; et serveurs et outils de bases de données. Rocket collabore avec des partenaires commerciaux et technologiques de renom tels qu'IBM, EMC, RSA (la division sécurité d'EMC), Fujitsu, HP Enterprise Services, Avaya, Motorola et bien d'autres. Son siège social est situé à Newton, dans le Massachusetts, aux États-Unis.