have a close connection with its subject . it may require cleanup to comply with wikipedia s content policies particularly neutral point of view . please discuss further on the talk page . january 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message appdynamics inc. type private company industry application performance management founded 2008 headquarters san francisco ca united states key people jyoti bansal founder executive chairman and chief strategist david wadhwani ceo revenue us 143.8 million 2015 1 website www.appdynamics.com appdynamics inc. is an american privately held application performance management apm and it operations analytics itoa company based in san francisco . the company focuses on managing the performance and availability of applications across cloud computing environments as well as inside the data center . 2 contents 1 history and founding 2 controversies 3 notes 4 external links history and founding edit appdynamics was founded in 2008 by jyoti bansal a former lead software architect at wily technologies a provider of application performance management technology . 3 appdynamics received five rounds of funding totaling 206.5 million . 4 controversies edit on april 10 2013 ca technologies formerly computer associates filed a lawsuit in the us district court for the eastern district in new york . the lawsuit claims that appdynamics violated three patents that came into ca technologies possession through acquisitions . 5 this was the second action ca technologies filed in connection with alleged infringement of patents obtained in the acquisition of wily technology . in november 2012 ca technologies filed a lawsuit asserting patent infringement of the same three apm patents against software company new relic . on april 20 2015 appdynamics and ca settled the two year old patent dispute . appdynamics said that it paid a modest fixed payment . 6 on february 2 2015 jonah kowall research vice president in gartner s it operations research group and lead in evaluating application performance management vendors in the gartner apm magic quadrant took a market development and thought leadership position within appdynamics . 7 8 later on february 17 2015 appdynamics hired a second apm industry analyst john rakowski of forrester research also into a marketing role . 9 notes edit gartner market share analysis performance monitoring worldwide 2015 . macvittie lori . march 31 2010 appdynamics puts the management in application performance management . two different socks retrieved september 7 2011 . demery paul . february 26 2010 . priceline finds a way to monitor its wide world of applications . internetretailer . retrieved september 7 2011 . harzog bernd . may 4 2010 . appdynamics raises an 11 million series b round confirms apm 2.0 opportunity . the virtualization practice . retrieved september 8 2011 . smythe christie . ca technologies sues appdynamics over it patents . http www.wsj.com articles appdynamics ca inc settle two year old patent dispute 1429552736 kowall jonah . farewell for now . kowall jonah . why i joined appdynamics . apmdigest . john rakowski joins appdynamics in strategic product marketing role . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title appdynamics & oldid 743697794 categories software companies based in californiacomputer companiescompanies established in 2008companies based in san franciscofree softwareperformance managementhidden categories wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from january 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 19 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view