Quest Software Inc. (“Quest,” “Quest Software,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our”) designs, develops, markets, distributes, and supports enterprise systems management software products. Our goal is to provide our customers with systems management products that improve the performance, productivity and reliability of their software applications and associated software infrastructure components such as databases, application servers, operating systems, and virtual environments. Quest is an “Independent Software Vendor,” or “ISV,” a company whose products are designed to support or to interact or interoperate with other vendors’ software or hardware platforms. As such, we continually strive to innovate and evolve our product portfolio to support the dynamic nature of our markets, as well as those of our customers’ information technology (“IT”) environments. Our success has been predicated on identifying large and evolving markets, developing and acquiring new products and technologies, and then leveraging our sales organization and installed base of customers to further our growth. We began as a provider of software tools and solutions for the Oracle database market, and subsequently expanded our offerings into other adjacent markets with product portfolios for application, Windows, and virtualization management. Today, our products span six solution families, and, as embodied in our slogan, “Simplicity at Work,” we seek to provide IT management software that is simple to use, saving our customers time and money across physical, virtual and cloud environments. We generate revenues by licensing our software products, principally on a perpetual basis. In addition to perpetual software licenses, we sell a small amount of time-based software licenses (or term licenses) wherein customers pay a single fee for the right to use the software and receive maintenance for a defined period of time. We also provide support, maintenance and professional services for these products. As such, our reportable operating segments are Licenses, Maintenance Services and Professional Services. The Licenses segment develops, and markets and sells licenses to use, our software products. The Maintenance Services segment provides post-sale support for software products and the Professional Services segment provides fee-based training and consulting services related to our software products. We have a large product portfolio of high-value products offered through six solution families that span these three segments and include very technically complex solutions focused on improving the management and performance of mission-critical software applications and the underlying component infrastructure. We also have volume products and software tools that enable our customers to reduce capital and operating expenditures or leverage existing investments in personnel and IT systems. Acquisitions have historically been an important element of our corporate strategy and have served as a mechanism to broaden our product portfolio and enter new markets. For example, we entered the application management, Windows management, and virtualization management markets through a series of acquisitions which served to propel the Company beyond its database management roots. Within the last five fiscal years, we have invested approximately $610 million, in the aggregate, to acquire 25 companies. Our acquisition strategy is directed at broadening our product portfolio and strengthening our competitive position against both direct competitors and the continual improvements made by the platform vendors.
Company profile
Ticker
QSFT
Exchange
Employees
Incorporated
Location
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Industry (SIC)
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IRS number
330231678
Latest filings (excl ownership)
15-12G
Securities registration termination
9 Oct 12
25-NSE
Exchange delisting
28 Sep 12
8-K
Dell Completes Acquisition of Quest Software
28 Sep 12
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Registration of securities for employees (post-effective amendment)
28 Sep 12
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Registration of securities for employees (post-effective amendment)
28 Sep 12
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Registration of securities for employees (post-effective amendment)
28 Sep 12
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Registration of securities for employees (post-effective amendment)
28 Sep 12
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Registration of securities for employees (post-effective amendment)
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Registration of securities for employees (post-effective amendment)
28 Sep 12
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Registration of securities for employees (post-effective amendment)
28 Sep 12