Dynatrace

Dynatrace was founded by Bernd Greifeneder on February 2, 2005 in Linz, Austria as dynaTrace Software GmbH, and was acquired by Compuware in 2011. In 2014, the private equity firm Thoma Bravo took the company private, and the Compuware APM group was renamed Dynatrace. Dynatrace established the Digital Performance Management category in late 2014.On August 1, 2019, Dynatrace completed its initial public offering .

Dynatrace headquarters is located in Waltham, Massachusetts, with research and development labs based in various locations across Austria, Estonia, Poland, Spain, and the United States. Dynatrace also hosts 60 further offices globally, including Australia, Brazil, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.

Acquisitions

Keynote Systems: In 2015, Dynatrace was merged with Keynote Systems, the rival provider of Application Performance Management services, which private equity firm Thoma Bravo had also acquired. Keynote, founded in 1995, had been an early provider of Internet performance metrics, including its "Keynote perspective" product in 1996, the Business 40 Internet Performance Index in 1997, and its Streaming Perspective product in 2000.

Matrix.net : Among the Keynote acquisitions which were eventually merged into Dynatrace were Xaffire Inc., whose Austin business unit Keynote acquired in December 2003, and which itself had emerged from the combination of Alignment Software Inc. with Matrix NetSystems, also known as Matrix.net and Matrix Information and Directory Services Inc. Matrix, operated by early Internet pioneer John Quarterman, was well-known for its Internet host censuses and its statistical maps and "weather reports" of the Internet.SpectX: On September 14, 2021, Dynatrace completed the acquisition of high-speed parsing and query analytics company, SpectX.