AppDynamics Strong Business Momentum Continued in Fiscal Year 2015 -- Annual Bookings Double to Over $150 Million - Seite 3

• Randy Gottfried, former CFO and COO at Riverbed Technology, joined the company as chief financial officer. Jonah Kowall, former research vice president at Gartner, joined the company as vice president of market development and insights and John Rakowski, former lead APM analyst at Forrester Research, joined the company as product marketing strategist (see separate press releases issued today). Kalyan Ramanathan, former chief marketing officer at Crittercism, a provider of mobile application performance management solutions, joined the company as vice president of product marketing.
• AppDynamics grew from over 365 employees at the end of last fiscal year to over 550 employees today.
• For the third consecutive year, AppDynamics was positioned by Gartner as a "Leader" in the 2014 "Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring" report, and was positioned furthest to the right on the 'completeness of vision' axis in the Magic Quadrant.
• AppDynamics recently increased its Net Promoter Score from 84 to 87 indicating an extraordinarily high likelihood to recommend the company; comparable enterprise software scores sit at 19.
• AppDynamics was recently named to the SharesPost 100 list recognizing the best venture-backed privately held companies. SharesPost leverages a proprietary multi-factor ranking process incorporating revenue growth, market potential, product stage, management team and investor quality.
• AppDynamics was recently named for the third consecutive year to the "AlwaysOn 2015 OnCloud Top 100" list of private companies. The OnCloud Top 100 represents the best-of-breed of companies in B2B applications, management tools, security and infrastructure sectors.
• Gigaom Research gave the company the highest ranking among application performance monitoring (APM) vendors in its report, "Sector Roadmap: application-management solutions for distributed and cloud environments." Each vendor tested for this report was ranked on cloud-readiness, breadth of language support, application topology mapping, transaction tracing, mobile and end-user experience monitoring, ease of deployment and operations.
• AppDynamics expanded its first US office outside of San Francisco in Dallas to support rapid growth in one of the country's emerging technology epicenters. Sixty employees are based in Dallas with an anticipated 80 by the end of 2015. The company also expanded into Australia, India and Japan.
• The company held its first annual user conference, AppSphere 2014, which, like the company's revenue numbers, blew away every projection. More than 650 attendees from more than 20 countries, representing 350 of the world's largest enterprise companies, assembled at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas for three days of learning, networking, knowledge-sharing and training. Presentations from IBM, Google, and Amazon Web Services were among the many highlights of the conference. Mark your calendar for November 30 to December 4 to join us at the Cosmopolitan again for AppSphere 2015.
• JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States and the sixth largest in the world, inducted AppDynamics into its prestigious "Hall of Innovation."
• AppDynamics sponsored cutting-edge research into the subject of big data and "operational analytics," resulting in the report, The Many Faces of Advanced Operations Analytics.
• Goldman Sachs Named Jyoti Bansal as "One of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs" at its third annual Builders + Innovators Summit.
• San Francisco Business Times honored Jyoti Bansal with "Best CEO" in the Annual Tech & Innovation Awards. The awards recognize the most promising and enterprising technology innovators and companies in the Bay Area.
• Jyoti Bansal was honored by EY as an Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2014 Award Finalist in Northern California, and recognized by Business Insider as one of the 39 most important people in cloud computing.
• The company welcomed former McAfee chairman of the board Chuck Robel to its board of directors.

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