Splunk to Acquire BugSense for Mobile App Analytics

Splunk, which provides software for real-time operational intelligence, agreed to acquire BugSense, a start-up providing an analytics solution for machine data generated by mobile devices. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Founded in 2011, BugSense provides developers and users rich analytics across a wide variety of use cases including mobile app performance, app quality, troubleshooting and usage based on data from mobile devices. BugSense supports all major mobile platforms, including Android, iOS and Windows Phone, via its mobile software development kits (SDKs). Today, BugSense enables users to analyze data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices through a highly scalable cloud platform.

Splunk software enables organizations to monitor, search, analyze, visualize and act on massive streams of real-time and historical machine data.

“Enterprise applications and IT investments are increasingly shifting to mobile, making it an important source of data for operational intelligence,” said Godfrey Sullivan, Chairman and CEO, Splunk. “BugSense has a strong mobile development team and is an exciting addition to our product portfolio. Our goal is to make it easier for customers to gain insights from machine data generated by mobile devices, along with other machine-generated data, across Splunk’s core use cases in IT operations, security, application management and business analytics.”

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