OpsGenie, a Boston-based cloud-based service for dev and ops teams that provides incident alerts, was acquired today by Atlassian for a cool $295 million.
Over 3,000 customers, including Air Canada, The Washington Post and Overstock, use OpsGenie to notify the correct parties as soon as an incident occurs.
“We are extremely excited to be joining Atlassian,” said Darren Henry, VP of marketing for OpsGenie. “We see great synergy in the way both companies operate and our missions to improve the daily lives of dev and IT teams. It is a great step forward for OpsGenie and we are thrilled that Atlassian will now have a presence in Boston.”
Atlassian also announced the release of a new product called Jira Ops that will serve as an incident command center and give response teams a central place to coordinate their work during major incidents. Jira Ops integrates with a suite of applications, including Slack, and cloud alerting tools like PagerDuty and, of course, OpsGenie.
We see great synergy in the way both companies operate and our missions to improve the daily lives of dev and IT teams."
With the acquisition and the launch of Jira Ops, the Australian-based collaboration software provider hopes to offer the best incident response solution on the market.
“Together, they form a powerful platform to help you respond to and resolve incidents faster,” Atlassian said in a statement. “With Atlassian, your teams can be more effective across the entire incident lifecycle — from first response to communicating with customers to learning from root cause analysis — so you can deliver the best possible service to your customers.”
Founded in 2002 in Sydney, Australia, Atlassian has rapidly grown to a global scale with over 40,000 customers in more than 134 countries.
According to Computerworld, the purchase of OpsGenie is the largest acquisition made by Atlassian since it bought task management provider Trello for $425 million last year.
