Progress announced the completion of the acquisition of ShareFile, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, providing a SaaS-native, AI-powered, document-centric collaboration platform, focusing on industry segments including business and professional services, financial services, industrial and healthcare.
Eggplant (formerly Testplant) announced the acquisition of NCC Group’s Web Performance Division.
The acquisition adds a SaaS-based, user-centric application performance platform, as well as a portfolio of blue chip customers including Argos, BMW, Barclays, John Lewis, House of Fraser, Sainsbury’s Bank, easyJet, and Auto Trader.
Eggplant also gains a team of world-leading testing, monitoring and data science experts focused on the digital experience.
In light of the expanded product offering, Testplant is also rebranding the combined company to Eggplant, the name of its widely recognized leading product suite.
The NCC Group Web Performance offering (which evolved from the company formerly known as Site Confidence) accelerates the Digital Automation Intelligence vision adding Synthetic Monitoring, Real User Monitoring (RUM), Performance Analysis, Load Testing and Analytics products to the Eggplant Suite and hosted platform immediately. The product suite enhancements will allow Eggplant to offer integrated AI-driven continuous testing and monitoring against critical business objectives. This will enable customers to ‘shift right’ in order to release apps quicker than ever, while continuing their testing in production, identifying live problems, providing predictive analytics and recommendations on bug fixes. Eggplant will be able to enhance DevOps pipelines to link business, development and operations groups, offering customers a faster product delivery, unique visibility and continuous product improvement, while ensuring a digital experience that delights consumers.
Dr. John Bates, CEO of Eggplant, said: “This is a key milestone in our growth strategy and we welcome the NCC Group’s Web Performance team and its customers to our organization. There has never been a greater demand for optimizing digital experiences and with the addition of new products and expertise, Eggplant can now more easily monitor, analyze and enhance the online customer experience, as well as accelerating the speed of delivery, quality and effectiveness of new digital products and services.”
Simon Austin, Technical Director at NCC Group Web Performance, said: “We’ve built a strong offering in the marketplace and are proud of the customers we have in our portfolio. Eggplant has a great reputation in the industry and the combination will offer customers a new and innovative model for continuous business assurance, allowing them to deliver the very best in digital services, products and experiences to their own customers.”
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