A San Francisco-based software company founded by an IIT alumnus will be acquired by American technology giant Cisco for $3.7 billion.
Jyoti Bansal founded application intelligence software company AppDynamics in 2008 with a vision to “help modern enterprises embark on their journey of digital transformation with a disruptive approach to managing their software applications.”
Cisco said it will acquire AppDynamics for approximately $3.7 billion in cash and assumed equity awards.
It said AppDynamics’s cloud application and business monitoring platform enabled the world’s largest companies to improve application and business performance.
“Applications have become the lifeblood of a company’s success. Keeping those apps running and performing well has never been more important,” said Rowan Trollope, Cisco senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Internet of Things and Applications Business Group.
“Unfortunately, that job has only gotten harder, as IT departments and developers struggle with a tangled web of disconnected, complex data that’s hard to understand,” Trollope said.
Bansal, who had received his BS degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, is a Silicon Valley leader and entrepreneur.
In September 2015, he handed day-to-day operations to David Wadhwani, who serves as the President, Chief Executive Officer, and as a director of AppDynamics.
Before founding AppDynamics in 2008, Bansal, who has won several awards and recognition for his work, held engineering roles at various Silicon Valley startups.