Embarcadero Technologies

Infobox_Company
company_name = Embarcadero Technologies
company_type = Private company
foundation = San Francisco, USA (1993)
location = San Francisco, USA
key_people = Wayne D. Williams, Chief Executive Officer
industry = Database administration tools, Software development
products = DBArtisan, Rapid SQL, Change Manager, ER/Studio, Performance Center etc.
revenue = )
num_employees = 270
homepage = [http://www.embarcadero.com www.embarcadero.com]

Embarcadero Technologies is an American software company founded in October 1993 by Stephen Wong and Stuart Browning with just a single database tool for Sybase DBAs — Rapid SQL (released in December the same year). [ [http://www.embarcadero.com/company/about_us.html Embarcadero Technologies finding from Embarcadero.com] ] [ [http://www.allbusiness.com/technology/software-services-applications/6519245-1.html Stephen Wong listed as Co-founder from allbusiness.com] ] [ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Browning Stuart Browning listed as co-founder from en.wikipedia.org] ] It currently produces tools for database design, development and management, for platforms including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Sybase and MySQL.

History

In April 2000, Embarcadero Technologies was listed on NASDAQ. In November the same year, the company acquired GDPro, a UML design solution provider. In October 2005, a data security solution provider, Ambeo, was acquired. Two years later, in June 2007, Thoma Cressey Bravo bought Embarcadero and it became a private company. Wayne Williams was appointed chief executive officer of Embarcadero Technologies in 2007.

The company headquarters are in San Francisco with other offices in Toronto, Melbourne, Munich, Maidenhead (United Kingdom) [ [http://www.embarcadero.com/company/contact_us.html List of Embarcadero Technologies offices from Embarcadero.com] ] and Iaşi (Romania). The company currently has an annual revenue of $US 60 million and has more than 270 employees.

On May 7th 2008 Borland Software Corporation announced that its software development tools division, CodeGear, was to be sold to Embarcadero Technologies for an expected $23 million price and $7 million in CodeGear accounts receivables retained by Borland. [ [http://www.silicontap.com/embarcadero_technologies_buys_codegear/s-0015183.html Silicon Valley Technology News, Embarcadero Technologies buys CodeGear] ] The acquisition closed on 30 June 2008 for approximately $24.5 million. [cite web
url=http://www.codegear.com/article/38314/
title=Embarcadero Technologies Closes Acquisition of CodeGear
accessdate=2008-07-03
last=Bravo
first=Thoma
date=2008-07-01]

Products

Since its foundation, Embarcadero Technologies has released several database-related products, such as: Rapid SQL (in December 1993) [ [http://www.embarcadero.com/company/about_us.html Embarcadero Technologies finding from Embarcadero.com] ] , DBArtisan (in April 1994), ER/Studio (in March 1996), Change Manager (in March 1999), Performance Center (in March 2001), DT/Studio (in December 2001), Schema Examiner (in October 2006), EA/Studio (in March 2007) [ [http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6675354/Embarcadero-Technologies-Launches-EA-Studio.html EA/Studio product release from Goliath] ] , PowerSQL (in March 2008) [ [http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/31509/ Newswire, PowerSQL product release] ] and DBOptimizer (in July 2008). It currently offers database tools that share a cross-platform foundation and cover the database life cycle. [ [http://www.embarcadero.com/company/about_us.html Embarcadero Technologies About Us section from Embarcadero.com] ]

Notes

External links

* [http://www.embarcadero.com Official website]
* [http://www.embarcadero-software.de German website]
* [http://edageek.com/2007/04/06/thoma-cressey-bravo-embarcadero edageek.com, Thoma Cressey Bravo and Embarcadero transaction]
* [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2208833,00.asp eWeek.com Data Modeling with Templates]
* [http://dnjonline.com/article.aspx?ID=oct06_datadude dnjonline.com Database Professionals]
* [http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/whitepaper.aspx?docid=257925 Database Security Best Practices]
* [http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/process_management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205920430&cid=RSSfeed_IE_News Intelligent Enterprise EA/Studio Put-to-the-Test]
* [http://www.felix-colibri.com/papers/db/embarcadero_er_studio/embarcadero_er_studio.html ER/Studio Tutorial]