Quest software

The sale will reportedly provide a more than sixfold return on investment for Francisco Partners, which bought Quest in together with Elliott Management. Quest is a major provider of enterprise software that claims more than , customers and competes in multiple market segments.

It originally launched in as a provider of applications for mainframes. Over the next 15 years, Quest evolved from a startup into a publicly traded company with more than 1, employees.

The same year, Dell combined the company with assets that it obtained from a number of prior acquisitions to form a division called Dell Software. Quest provides a large number of enterprise software products spanning multiple categories. The company counts the cybersecurity, data management and device administration markets among its focus areas.

In the cybersecurity market, Quest competes with a collection of identity and access management products that enterprises use to help employees securely log into work applications.

The company also provides software for protecting Active Directory deployments from cyberattacks. Active Directory is a popular Microsoft Corp.

In the data management market, Quest provides tools that help workers find the business records they need for analytics projects. For information technology teams, the company offers a range of data protection tools. For over 30 years, we have been turning hype into help for enterprise organizations just like yours. Our enterprise software solutions deliver true IT resilience with software that empowers identities, users and data, streamlines IT operations and hardens cybersecurity from the inside out.

Database and systems management, end-to-end Microsoft solutions, and cybersecurity resilience solutions from Quest help you achieve better productivity and security. You can be absolutely assured that you will achieve your next IT goal now, and in the future. At Quest we help you tackle whatever IT challenge comes next so you can move to productivity quickly and achieve your next IT goal now, and in the future. Take control of your enterprise with comprehensive hardware and software inventory and asset management across a range of operating systems and devices.

Migrate and modernize your environment without disruption whether on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid. Strengthen your cybersecurity resilience with identity management, enterprise vulnerability detection, and auditing and compliance. We have the solutions you need to deploy your next SharePoint or Office migration, replicate Oracle databases, strengthen your cybersecurity resilience for Active Directory, and secure your enterprise endpoints.

No matter the platform, no matter the challenge — data explosion, cloud expansion, security threats or compliance, Quest has a solution that fits your needs. Where Next Meets Now At Quest, we create and manage the software that makes the benefits of new technology real while empowering users and data, streamlining IT operations and hardening cybersecurity from the inside out.

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