Company Background

Arthur L. Allen founded Allen Systems Group, Inc. in 1986 in Naples, Florida, USA. Typical of many entrepreneurs, he opened the doors with just $2,000 in capital and a $100,000 line of credit. His first product, called ShopMon, was a performance monitoring tool designed for Computer Associate’s Integrated Data Management Systems (CA-IDMS™). Soon after, Fast Access, a product that increased IDMS database throughput, proved very successful, and ASG purchased it from the Christian Broadcasting Network.

This purchase marked the first of many strategic acquisitions ASG would make in the following years. Each has not only expanded ASG’s product offerings, but also enhanced distribution synergies, customer diversity, and profitability. Additionally, through acquisitions the employees of ASG have become one of the most diverse groups in the world, capable of developing and distributing comprehensive software solutions for ASG’s extensive clientele worldwide. Acquisitions have also demonstrated ASG’s ability to recognize and attain value-added technologies to build a industry-leading portfolio of software solutions.

Among more than 30 of ASG’s strategic acquisitions over the years are:

	March 2005—Cypress Corporation The acquisition of Rochester Hills, Mich.-based Cypress Corporation, a developer and provider of leading content management and output management software, strengthens ASG’s Content Management and Operations Management product families and expands ASG’s “Total Information Ownership” offering. Cypress solutions are now marketed as the ASG-Cypress™ Suite and ASG-Zeus™.
	March 2005—Chevin The acquisition of Chevin, a Luton, UK-based provider of leading distributed network management systems, strengthens ASG’s Infrastructure Management product family with the addition of TeVISTA distributed network performance and management solutions. These solutions are now marketed as ASG-TeVISTA™ Expert and ASG-TeVISTA™ Performance Manager.
	August 2004—Senware’s AutoDBA The acquisition of Senware’s AutoDBA solution strengthens ASG’s Performance Management product family with the addition of the leading Oracle® database management and automation tool. Deployed by database administrators (DBAs) worldwide to maximize database efficiency, the solution is now marketed as ASG-AutoDBA™.
	March 2004—Soamaï Software Following a distribution partnership, the acquisition of French software company Soamaï, creator of ASG-becubic™ IT Assets Intelligence solutions and a key player in the Legacy Applications Modernization market, strengthens ASG’s Applications Management product family with enhanced IT asset management technology.
	February 2004—Dirig Software The acquisition of Dirig Software and its adaptive J2EE performance management solutions strengthens ASG’s Performance Management product family. Dirig Software?s solutions suite, including its Application Performance Platform (APP), was incorporated into ASG-TMON™ for eBusiness, which automatically adapts to the complexity and frequent changes typical of J2EE applications in production.
	August 2002—Entact Information Security Corporation The acquisition of Entact Information Security Corporation and its enterprise identity management solutions enabled ASG to create a new, high-growth product family, Security Management. The solutions help large organizations control and manage privileges and the authorization levels of their users.
	February 2002—Landmark Systems Corporation The acquisition of Landmark and its suite of Performance Management products (TMON, NaviPlex, and NaviGraph) made ASG, at that time, the only software company offering comprehensive solutions in the areas of Applications, Operations, Content, Performance, and Metadata Management.
	October 2001—SNMP Frameworks The acquisition of SNMP Frameworks provides ASG with a price/performance alternative to leading Web-based network management systems. ASG-Sentry’ is an advanced SNMP network management and remote network monitor system providing real-time status, event detection, event management, historical analysis, and a suite of powerful diagnostic and configuration tools for managing and maintaining small or large TCP/IP networks.
	September 2000—Viasoft, Inc. The acquisition of Viasoft and its Existing Systems Workbench (ESW) solution complements ASG’s unmatched Applications Management product family. The addition of Viasoft?s Rochade repository to ASG?s solutions positions ASG as a world leader in metadata repository management.
	June 2000—Condor Technology Solutions’ Safari Suite ASG purchased the Safari suite of data access, management, and reporting tools from Condor Technology Solutions, Inc. The comprehensive ASG-Safari™ line of products combines with ASG’s existing technology offerings, including its Content Management product family, to provide business intelligence solutions that help ASG clients better achieve their IT and business objectives.
	May 2000—Network Software Associates ASG’s acquisition of Network Software Associates brought Report.Web to the ASG lineup. A powerful, multi-host publishing and distribution solution for corporate intranet/extranet environments, ASG-Report.Web™ provides end-users with immediate, universal access to reports from any host source through a standard Web browser.
	January 17, 2000—ASG purchases BETA Systems Software AG's workload products The purchase of BETA’s line of workload products (now known as ASG-Batch Bridge™, ASG-Workload Scheduler™, ASG-Workload Planner™, and ASG-Workload Analyzer™) increased the functionality of ASG’s Operations Management tools and added increased workload management capabilities.
	January 2000—ASG Acquires and Merges With SISRO The acquisition of, and merger with, France’s SISRO in 2000 resulted in the addition of Workload and JCL Management products such as Zeke Open Edition, a distributed platform scheduler, and Cortex-Pdb, a production repository and JCL generation tool, to ASG’s product portfolio.
	December 1999—Computer Associates’ Platinum Technology ASG acquired Computer Associate’s world-renown Platinum Technology mainframe systems management software as a result of CA’s divestiture of Platinum. Focusing on scheduling and intelligent management solutions, ASG leveraged the Platinum products, including Zeke, to provide a strong foundation for ASG’s Operations Management product family.
	September 1998—Manager Software Products and Solutions from Emprise Technologies The acquisition of Manager Software Products (MSP), the oldest and largest vendor of repository solutions, brought software solutions that manage information assets, IT infrastructure, data, and process models. Also, through a transaction with Emprise Technologies, ASG acquired CATS and CSD/Auditor for CICS change management.
	July 1998—Firesign Computer Company The acquisition of Firesign Computer Company added Firesign’s most prominent product, ASG-Outbound, to ASG’s collection of data center automation products. Outbound provides a faster, more reliable and more efficient way to implement on-demand and automated data transfer across multiple platforms.
	March 1998—Impact Software Technologies ASG’s purchase of Impact Software Technologies added a rapid maintenance and enhancement technology that provides immediate and in-depth insight into mainframe systems. The product ASG obtained provides a graphical user interface that instantly illustrates the attributes and relationships of an entire IT system.

The synergy from many strategic acquisitions is now enabling ASG’s clients to extend their existing enterprises and manage critical business needs. Today, with more than 70% of the 10,000 existing OS/390® sites as ASG customers and more than 200 software solutions that are functional replacements for products from BMC, CA, Compuware, IBM, and smaller companies, ASG can replace between 75 and 85% or more of all products in most enterprises’ IT environments, while producing a savings of as much as 25%.

Beginning in 1997, ASG experienced a compounded annual growth rate of 40%. Inc. magazine recognized ASG as one of the fastest growing companies in the United States, with a three-year growth rate of 394%. According to Software Magazine, ASG is the 10th largest privately held software company in the world. Looking to the future, ASG plans to continue to grow its comprehensive, industry-leading portfolio of value-based software solutions.