AppSense makes maiden acquisition

SOFTWARE company AppSense has made its first-ever acquisition, with a swoop on a Californian start-up company.

Warrington and New York-based Appsense, which is expanding aggressively backed by investment bank Goldman Sachs, did not disclose the terms of its deal for RAPsphere, a mobile IT company, which develops mobile information management solutions.

The company said the RAPshere specialises in helping companies protect their data applications where employees were using their own mobile computers and tablets for work – a phenomenon known as BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).

The company said: “This will be the first acquisition made by AppSense and will expand the application of user virtualization across the mobile enterprise. The move will advance efforts to further establish greater controls and IT management of enterprise users who, whether enterprise IT consents or is even aware, are choosing how and where they want to work.”

Darron Anthill, chief executive of AppSense said: ““We understand the needs of enterprise organizations dealing with disruptive mobile technologies driving BYOD and the need for greater governance of users.

“There is a critical need to protect corporate applications and data on employee-owned devices. Our business is based on helping our customers build productive enterprise environments. RAPsphere will be an important and strategic acquisition that enables us to advance our user virtualization solutions.

RAPsphere, is based at Redwood City, California and is a start-up, co-founded by Ravi Khatod, Ajay Arora and Prakash Linga. All employees will transfer to AppSense upon competion.