DataMirror

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DataMirror

Company type	Subsidiary of public company
Industry	Computer software
Founded	1993; 31 years ago (1993)
Headquarters	Markham, Ontario
Key people	Nigel W. Stokes (Co-founder, Chairman of the Board, CEO)
Products	Data integration, protection, auditing, and capture
Revenue	$44.7 million USD (2006)[1]
Net income	$3.68 million USD (2006)[1]
Number of employees	220 (2006)[1]
Parent	IBM
Website	www.datamirror.com

DataMirror Corporation, founded in 1993, is a computer software company based in Markham, Ontario, Canada with offices in several countries. The company provides real-time data integration, protection, and Java database products, and in 2006 claimed to have over 2100 business customers in industries including healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and financial services.^[1] As of 2007, the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the IBM Corporation.

• 1993 - DataMirror was founded
• 1996 - DataMirror had its initial public offering^{[citation needed]}
• 1997 - DataMirror acquired SQLPump from SoftQuest Corp.^[2]
• 1998 - DataMirror acquired mpc-Software GmbH, a software distributor located in Frankfurt, Germany^[3]
• 2000 - DataMirror purchased assets of Constellar Corp, makers of Constellar Hub^[4]
• 2001 - DataMirror acquired BDI Systems, Inc. which builds bi-directional, Java-based, data transformation software that exchanges data between XML, relational database and text formats.
• 2003 - DataMirror completed acquisition of PointBase, makers of a Java database^[1]
• 2003 - DataMirror acquired assets of bankrupt SmartSales, maker of sales force automation products^[5]
• 2004 - DataMirror divested interest in Idion Technology Holdings, of South Africa^[1]
• 2007 - On 16 Jul 2007, IBM purchased all of the outstanding DataMirror common shares at a price of C$27.00 per common share payable in cash, amounting to total consideration of approximately C$170 million (approximately US$161 million).^{[citation needed]}
• 2007 - 04 Sept 2007, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it had completed its acquisition of DataMirror.^[6]
• 2012 - 04 Jan 2012, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it had completed its sale of its iCluster software business to Rocket Software, a privately held company based in Waltham, MA. iCluster software was originally acquired by IBM when it acquired DataMirror Corporation in 2007.^[7]

• Transformation Server - Real-time bi-directional replication for loading a data warehouse, synchronizing data between existing systems and Web applications, or distributing data between different applications for decision-making
• iCluster - aims to ensure high availability of business applications and provide disaster avoidance and protection for IBM i systems
• LiveAudit - provides an audit trail of data changes aimed at reducing fraud, improving customer service and accountability, ensuring compliance with industry regulations, and managing and protecting data assets
• iReflect - provides a consistent, updated view of information by distributing and consolidating data in real-time between Oracle databases
• Transformation Server/Event Server – detects events as they occur in production applications and creates business information to feed into the message queues of several enterprise application integration (EAI), business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments
• PointBase - a SQL92/99 JDBC-compliant Java relational database.

• List of mergers and acquisitions by IBM

• DataMirror company page