AppSense sold to US tech giant

INTERNATIONAL business software company AppSense is to be acquired by US IT firm LANDESK.

LANDESK said the deal with the Warrington founded secure user environment management firm brings advanced endpoint protection capabilities to its portfolio.

It said AppSense would also add to its capabilities to include both physical and virtual devices and eliminate the need for separate tools and processes.

Scott Arnold, president and chief executive of AppSense said: “Our goal with AppSense has been to provide the best user experience while enhancing the security and manageability of virtual and physical endpoints.

“Joining forces with LANDESK makes strategic sense. We are excited to provide our customers and partners with the option for a total endpoint management strategy from a single vendor.”

Set up in 1999, AppSense has gained a strong customer base in healthcare, banking, and finance. It counts eight of the top ten US healthcare companies as customers, as well as 16 of the top 20 global banks.

Traditionally, AppSense products have been focused on on-demand personalisation and profile management across physical, virtual and cloud endpoints. They also have strong endpoint security offerings for application control, privilege management and, more recently, secure data access.

AppSense, which has 170 staff at Daresbury Park near Warrington, counted financial giant Goldman Sachs as a shareholder and has previously been linked with a Wall Street IPO, but the process did not proceed.

Most recently-published accounts for the year to June 2014 show the company, founded by Cheshire entrepreneur Charles Sharland, made an EBITDA loss of £3.4m on revenues of £58m.
 
The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and has offices around the world.

Squire Patton Boggs in Manchester, led by Corporate partner Jane Haxby, advised Appsense.

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