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Cisco Snatches Appdynamics From The Jaws Of An Ipo With A $3.7 Billion Acquisition

... speed up business decisions and improve business performance, Cisco said. The acquisition announcement comes just as the IT industry was looking forward to an expected App Dynamics IPO. [Related: Dell EMC Commits To Exclusive Use Of Cisco UCS Servers In Vblocks, Vx Blocks ]. The App Dynamics acquisition is slated to close in Cisco’s third fiscal 2017 quarter. It is slated to become a new business unit under Rowan Trollope, senior vice president and general manager for Cisco's Io T and applications business. The division is expected to be led by current App Dynamics CEO David Wadhwani. Rob Salvagno, Cisco's vice president of corporate business development, in a Tuesday blog pos t wrote that digital transformation and the cloud are making application performance ever more critical. "Combining real-time visibility and intelligence at the network, security and application layers is transformational for companies. It can provide them with insight into the state of their business and most importantly, into the quality of their customers’ experiences," Salvagno wrote. App Dynamics helps enterprises translate application data into business ...

Appdynamics Is An Application Performance Game Changer, Opens Up 'amazing New World For Partners

... what has been a separate conversation – what is the end user experience like? Well, it all starts at the application level and Cisco was not addressing that.". The San Jose, Calif.-based networking giant unveiled plans Tuesday night to acquire application performance monitoring and management provider App Dynamics for $3.7 billion. Cisco said combining the two companies will provide customers intelligent and actionable insights to help speed up business decisions and improve network performance. [Related: 12 Reasons Why Cisco's Spark Board Is Its Coolest Product Ever ]. By having end-to-end visibility from the network through the application, Cisco is eliminating the "finger pointing" between infrastructure teams and application developers when a customer has an issue, and will "wildly improve" the end user's overall experience, said partners. "Cisco was not tied to the application at all. They can now say, 'hand me a good application and I'll make sure the network is aligned with that,' because Cisco can build App Dynamics right in," said Shepard. "You'll be able to monitor your applications, see your application, see how it goes across the network, ...

The Lessons From Cisco’s At-the-buzzer Buy Of Appdynamics

... as he expects investors to reject high-growth companies that have large net losses in 2017. “App Dynamics just sidestepped the entire volatility story of the year,” Wolff said. Wolff said he expects the market to become even more volatile in the second half of the year, as euphoria around Trump and his pro-business agenda dies down. That volatility should push those companies that need to go public to test the market in the first half of the year, he said. The highly valued companies that do go public are likely to see a cut in valuation, said Kashif Sheikh, an analyst at Priv Co. In addition to overvalued companies and market volatility, a rise in interest rates may keep investors away, Sheikh said. Just last week, Simpli Vity, a software company, took a big valuation cut after it agreed to be bought by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. HPE, +0.39%   for $650 million in cash, compared with a $1 billion private valuation. Read also: The 2017 tech shopping spree is upon us. Cisco and HPE ...

First Unicorn To Ipo In 2017

... and improving gross margins. We are excited about this upcoming IPO and at its current valuation recommend investors consider a modest allocation. App Dynamics' (Pending: APPD ) upcoming IPO has attracted much attention as it's the first unicorn to go public in 2017. After a slow 2016 for the IPO market, investors are hopeful that 2017 will be a stronger year and are looking towards the performance of App Dynamics as a signal to whether other large tech startups will join the IPO pipeline. App Dynamics is expected to go public on Thursday (1.26.17) and raise $132 M through the sale of its 12 M shares. Assuming it prices at the mid-point of its price range, the company would have a market cap value of $1.5 B. This valuation is less than the $1.9 B which App Dynamics was estimated to be valued, at its most recent round of financing on 12.1.2015. This decrease in valuation could be seen as a worrisome sign and is not great news for the company's VC investors, who supported the company as a private company. To date, App Dynamics had raised 314.5 M in six rounds of financing. In its most recent round, the ...

4 Things To Know About Appdynamics Before The Ipo

... App Dynamics before the IPO. Published: Jan 24, 2017 7:49 a.m. ET. Potential first tech IPO of 2017 faces lowered valuation from private funding. Jyoti Bansal, co-founder and chief executive of App Dynamics Inc. App Dynamics Inc. could be the first technology company that goes public in 2017. The software company plans to publicly sell 12 million shares to raise a maximum of $168 million at the high-end of its $12-to-$14 per-share price range. The company is also planning a concurrent private placement in which existing stockholders may buy up to $32.5 million, or 2.49 million shares of common stock, in a private placement. App Dynamics US: APPD  has been approved to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol “APPD.” The filing of the initial public offering comes after the company postponed a previous offering due to uncertainty following the U. S. presidential election. The lead underwriters on the App Dynamics offering are Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and J. P. Morgan. Here are four things to know about App Dynamics before it goes public. Nearly 2,000 customers for ...

How Cisco Swooped In And Nabbed Appdynamics At The Last Minute

... Saturday, according to sources. It wasn't definitive enough to keep App Dynamics from going forward with the IPO, so the companies agreed to a 72-hour negotiating period, giving Cisco just enough time to finalize an offer before the share sale. After multiple bids, Cisco said in a press release on Tuesday afternoon that it had agreed to buy App Dynamics for $3.7 billion , marking its biggest acquisition since 2012, when the networking company spent $5 billion on video software maker NDS. Cisco shares. "Cisco has been a customer of App Dynamics for a number of years," said Rob Salvagno, head of corporate development at Cisco, in a conference call on Wednesday. As a client and partner, "that just helped bring us closer and ultimately give us the confidence to move towards making this deal happen," he said. When Wadhwani and Gottfried returned to the App Dynamics office in San Francisco late Tuesday, they were greeted by Cisco's Robbins and Rowan Trollope, a senior vice president, to jointly address the staff, one source said. For Cisco, App Dynamics represents the next big ...

What The Appdynamics Sale Could Mean For Other Tech Ipo Candidates

... He predicts a number of exits this year, saying that “2017 could be the year of enterprise cloud technology companies coming of age.”. Greylock’s Asheem Chandna, also an early investor and board member at App Dynamics, echoed those comments. “If I look at the data from the roadshow, it was oversubscribed several times over. Based on the level of interest and coverage, I think it’s highly likely they would have had a very strong offering.”. The outcome also points to increased interest in tech M&A. Rick Kline, a partner at Goodwin Procter, which was supposed to be an underwriting counsel on the canceled IPO, believes we may see other situations where companies change course and are acquired while planning to go public. “This won’t be the last one,” said Kline. Often known as a “dual-track” process, an IPO is a “good time to consider doing a market check and consider what options are out there.” He said media leaks frequently raise awareness of upcoming IPOs, which can result in M&A conversations. ...

The New Cisco Is All About Software, Software, Software

... IBM (ibm) and Hewlett Packard (before splitting into two separate businesses) were betting big on tools for coders to create and manage software. In 2006, for example, Hewlett Packard bought IT software company Mercury Interactive for $4.5 billion, followed a week later by IBM buying infrastructure software company MRO Software, Inc. for $740 million. Dropbox Didn’t Actually Delete Your ‘Deleted’ Files. Flash forward a decade later and Hewlett Packard's business-focused unit, now Hewlett Packard Enterprise (hpe) , has chosen to spin off Mercury and related IT software services to U. K. company Micro Focus in a $8.8 billion deal. IBM, on the other hand, is moving away from its traditional IT software business and is investing heavily in its Watson data crunching and cloud computing business. App Dynamics CEO David Wadhwani said Wednesday in a call with analysts that when App Dynamics was founded eight years ago, companies like Hewlett Packard and IBM were still pushing their own software monitoring tools. However, these companies failed to see how ...

Cisco To Acquire Appdynamics For $ 3.7 Billion

... & Communication Devices has a Current Ratio of 3.6 with a Quick Ratio value of 3.5. They now have a Dollars 37 price target on the stock. They now have a United States dollars 36 price target on the stock. Eventually, Cisco Systems, Inc. They now have a Dollars 33 price target on the stock. JP Morgan analysts disclosed their opinion on Cisco Systems, Inc. The stock hit its 52-week high price on 09/02/16, and 52-week low price on 02/10/16. Currently, the company has about 2,000 paying customers , including NASDAQ Inc, Nike Inc, e Harmony, Citrix Systems Inc, and Kraft Inc. At the movement stock is under coverage by number of analysts. The company presently has a consensus rating of "Buy" and an average target price of $32.71. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.59 earnings per share. "Cisco made an offer that people felt was compelling", said Ravi Mhatre, a board member at App Dynamics and led the company's major investment round in 2008 at Light Speed Venture Partners. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 6 th will be given a dividend of ...