verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message quest software inc. logo used from the 1980s until 2012 former type public traded as nasdaq qsft 1999 2012 industry software fate acquired by dell inc. successor dell inc. founded newport beach california united states 1987 1987 defunct september 28 2012 2012 09 28 headquarters aliso viejo california united states products toad windows management tools active directory exchange sharepoint systems center sql server etc. database tools oracle sql server db2 sybase mysql application management java . net monitoring etc. virtualization server and desktop cloud automation and data protection . revenue 857 million 1 usd 2011 number of employees 3 900 q4 2011 slogan simplicity at work website software.dell.com quest software s corporate headquarters in aliso viejo ca quest software was a software manufacturer headquartered in aliso viejo california . founded in 1987 quest developed and supported software used in a variety of industries to simplify it management . quest software was acquired by dell in 2012 for 2.36 billion . 2 the company was known for toad a product used by database professionals in addition to other products for it development management monitoring and protection . it offered both packaged and custom software applications as well as associated software infrastructure components such as databases application servers operating systems and hypervisors . the company had a reputation for following it spending trends citation needed and investing in technology areas such as virtualization cloud automation and backup and recovery . quest had a worldwide presence with more than 60 offices in 23 countries 3 with a customer base of more than 100 000 . as of december 2011 quest had 3 900 full time employees worldwide and annual revenues of 857 million . 1 in june 2016 dell announced the sale of their software division including the quest business to francisco partners and elliott management corporation . 4 contents 1 key partners 2 products 3 history 3.1 1987 to 2000 3.2 2000 to present 4 references 5 external links key partners edit microsoft gold certified partner oracle partner network certified partner vmware technology alliance partner dell accenture avanade ibm hp emc salesforce.com red hat cisco systems netapp novell products edit quest offers products for application management database management microsoft windows management including active directory exchange and sharepoint and virtualization management including desktop virtualization server virtualization and cloud automation . quest s application management products focus in the erp java ee and microsoft . net market spaces . quest was recognized as a leader in gartner s magic quadrant for application performance monitoring in 2011 . 5 database management tools include support for mysql sql server db2 sybase and oracle . the company s well known toad product is also now available for cloud and nosql databases . in the windows infrastructure management arena products cater to active directory exchange sharepoint microsoft windows and system center users . the company also offers products to manage virtualized environments including desktop virtualization server virtualization and cloud automation tools . the company divides its products into six solution families database management performance monitoring data protection user workspace management windows server management identity and access management history edit 1987 to 2000 edit 1987 quest software was founded in newport beach california with a line of high availability and middleware products for hp multi programming executive mpe . 1995 vinny smith joined the company which at the time had 35 employees and 9.5 million in revenue . 1996 quest entered the database management market with an oracle sql database tuning product ; 1997 quest expanded beyond north america by opening an office in the united kingdom . 1998 doug garn joined quest as the vice president of sales . quest also added offices in germany and australia . smith became ceo . 1999 on august 13 1999 quest software went public . 6 the company also entered the application change management market by acquiring stat . 2000 quest expanded further into application management by acquiring foglight a monitoring product ; and continued the global expansion with new offices in france and the netherlands . at the end of 2000 the company had 1 400 employees and 167 million in revenue . 2000 to present edit 2001 quest entered the microsoft management market by acquiring fastlane technologies and broadened its database offerings beyond oracle with a new product for the ibm db2 database . 2002 quest opened an office in japan and expanded their application management offerings to custom web applications written in java with the acquisition of sitraka . 2003 quest officially entered the microsoft sql server market and idc named quest 1 in distributed database management software . 2004 the company expanded its microsoft infrastructure management capabilities by acquiring aelita software and won microsoft s prestigious global isv of the year award for the first time . gartner also named quest 1 in application management . 2004 also saw quest expand operations in asia with new offices in singapore korea and china . 2005 doug garn became president of quest . the company acquired imceda software that year to add sql server backup and recovery capabilities and vintela for identity management . at the end of 2005 quest had 2 750 employees worldwide and revenues of 476 million . 2006 the company entered the microsoft sharepoint market . quest acquired scriptlogic which provided a solid entry into the small to medium sized business market . quest also acquired charonware s.r.o from the czech republic the makers of case studio2 and folded it into the toad data modeler product . this year also saw quest ranked 1 by gartner for application management in north america and 1 in database development and management by idc . 2007 quest received microsoft s global isv of the year award for the second time . the company also begin its focus on virtualization by acquiring provision networks a desktop virtualization management company . 2008 doug garn became ceo and president and vinny smith became executive chairman . quest purchased vizioncore as an entry into the server virtualization market . 2009 alan fudge becomes vice president of sales and quest acquired packettrap for network monitoring . 2010 the company acquired voelcker to round out their identity management offerings . quest continued building out its virtualization business and also entered the private cloud automation market by acquiring surgient . quest was also ranked in the leaders quadrant by gartner for application performance monitoring . revenues were 767 million at the end of 2010 and the company counted approximately 3 500 employees . 2011 quest acquired bakbone software e dmz remotescan symlabs changebase vkernel and bitkoo . 2011 vinny smith became ceo and chairman and doug garn became vice chairman . 2012 on friday september 28 2012 dell announced that it has completed the acquisition of quest software 2016 on 2016 dell sold the company called dsg dell software group to francisco partners and elliot management . references edit a b 2011 annual report on form 10 k retrieved march 2 2012 dell buying quest software for 2.36 billion . usa today . july 2 2012 . retrieved july 2 2012 . quest office locations retrieved june 21 2011 dell to sell software unit to francisco partners and elliott management . wall street journal . june 20 2016 . retrieved july 22 2016 . quest software named a leader in the 2011 gartner magic quadrant for application performance monitoring business wire retrieved march 3 2012 . tiffany kary august 13 1999 . ipo update quest software takes off . cnet news . retrieved january 31 2013 . external links edit software.dell.com quest software software.dell.com product page for netvault software.dell.com product page for vranger freeware edition of toad oracle sql server db2 & mysql retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title quest software & oldid 739060848 categories quest softwaresoftware companies based in californiatechnology companies based in the greater los angeles areacompanies based in aliso viejo californiasoftware companies established in 19871987 establishments in californiacompanies acquired by dellhidden categories articles needing additional references from july 2012all articles needing additional referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from september 2012 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search 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