DELL QUEST

BY

Rangaswamy
Praneeth
Rohit
Haritha

 About DELL
About QUEST
About The NEWS
ANALYSIS
Reasons For ACQUSITIONS
CONCLUSION

 American MNC - Texas US

Develops, sells and supports computer and
related products and services
Listed at 41 in Fortune 500 companies
3rd Largest in the world after HP and Lenova

MILE STONES
Michael Dell as PC ltd -1984
Changed to Dell Computer Corporation -1988
1st acquisition in 1999,ConvergeNet
Technologies
In 2003 company ,rebranded as simply Dell Inc

Main Acquisitions
PEROT SYSTEMS ,2009
KACE NETWORKS -Feb 10, 2010
CLERITY SOLUTIONS - Apr 3, 2012
QUEST SOFTWARE announced-July 2, 2012

Dell Value
Present share value of Dell is $ 12.39
About 16000 employees are working in Dell
Company operates in 4 segments
1) Large Enterprise
2)Public
3)Small & Medium
4)Consumer

 Company Headquarters:
Aliso Viejo, California, USA
Employees:
Approximately 3,900 worldwide
Customers:
100,000 worldwide
Year Founded:
1987

QUEST OVERVIEW

Simplicity at work
Investigation in innovation
World class support services
The best depend on quest
Industry Partnerships

ACQUISITIONS
BLUE FOLDER -Feb 2012

REMOTE SCAN -May 2011

NETPRO -Sep 2008

QUEST SOLUTION AREAS

Simple to use IT management Solutions
Identity Management
Performance Monitoring
Data Protection
Database Management
User Workplace management
Windows Server Management

FINANCIAL DETAILS
OF THE QUEST
Total 2011 revenue
was $857 million (up
11.8%)

$260 million in available

cash
R&D investment
is 18.9% of revenues

ABOUT THE NEWS

The Quest revealed the suitor -secret bid
turned out to be Dell.
Dell is Acquiring Quest - $2.4 billion dollars.
Dells disappointing first quarter
> decline in consumer segment - 12%
> decline in government segment - 4%
> decline in large business - 3%
> bright spot in small & medium business - 4%

ANALYSIS
Dell's shares slid about 1.1 %, or 15 cents,
$12.35 in midday trading FY11
Quest, up 43 % since insight first made its
offer, was off about a penny at $27.79.
Deal is assumed to add up - 12 cents to Dell's
EPS in FY14 conservative synergy levels

Reasons
For
Acquisitions

DELLS FOCUS
Transform itself from a PC company to an
enterprise company that can beat the likes
of IBM and HP.

QUEST SOFTWARE, a company that has built

several key competencies without establishing
a dominant brand in any one of them.

Technical Reasons
Identity and Access Management
Fog light for performance monitoring apps,
databases, virtual machines, etc..

Windows Server Management Solutions

Net vault
User Workspace Management

References
http://www.dell.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell
http://www.quest.com/
3rd July 2012---The Times Of India