Why is Nimsoft acquiring Indicative?

Nimsoft is acquiring Indicative Software to add business service management (BSM) and end-user response time monitoring capabilities to its widely accepted solutions for network monitoring, server monitoring, database monitoring, application monitoring and service level management (SLM). With this acquisition, Nimsoft is delivering the future of IT performance and availability monitoring, where solutions provide a rapid return on investment, are easy to implement and use, and deliver complete customer satisfaction.

The current performance and availability monitoring market is dominated by four large vendors, HP, IBM, BMC Software and CA (The Big 4), but customers continually report and complain about painful complexity resulting in large amounts of professional services and a high cost of ownership from products that are dated and over-engineered for today’s requirements. Nimsoft has built its business by providing more than 550 customers with unparalleled satisfaction and a return on investment that is often astonishing. In many cases, Nimsoft has relieved customers of the burden of trying to maintain complicated and expensive solutions by directly replacing them. With the acquisition of Indicative Software, Nimsoft will continue to deliver against customer expectations with a single solution for organizations both small and large, whether the customer’s need is simple device level monitoring or more sophisticated business service management for the entire IT infrastructure.

How much did Nimsoft pay for Indicative?

The purchase was a mix of cash and stocks. The actual value is not public.

What will happen to the employees of Indicative?

Nearly all of the Indicative employees will become Nimsoft employees and will continue to work from their Fort Collins, Colorado offices. The field sales offices may consolidate if needed.

Can I buy Indicative’s solution?

Yes, customers can still purchase the Indicative solution.

What is the product roadmap for the two solutions?

The two products will be sold separately for the foreseeable future. Over an extended period of time, through normal product release cycles, we plan to bring new functionality from the Indicative to the Nimsoft solution. We believe that customers will benefit from the new functionality that we will bring to each product line through a cross product development strategy. We have no plans to offer a Nimsoft to Indicative migration service or conversion.

In the meantime our account teams will assist our prospects in making the right initial choice for their needs.