Aliso Viejo’s Quest Software Inc., a maker of business software, said Monday it acquired Germany’s Völcker Informatik AG, a privately held maker of software that helps manage security, access and identity verification for corporations.
Terms of the deal, presumably small, weren’t disclosed.
The move is set to add to Quest’s portfolio of identity software products, according to Chief Executive Doug Garn.
“For a variety of reasons, many organizations have been unable to implement identity and access management,” he said. “The Völcker acquisition adds an extra dimension by providing the power, security and efficiency that organizations demand across their entire enterprise.”
Völcker has some 60 workers. Quest is set to keep its offices in Berlin and Dresden, Germany, a company spokesman said.
The deal is a return to Quest’s typical pattern of making a few small deals each quarter.
The company was a big buyer until the downturn struck, during which it opted to do some stock buybacks instead of deals.
Its most recent buy was in January 2009, when it scooped up Redwood City-based Monosphere Inc., a small maker of software that manages data storage networks, for undisclosed terms.
Most of the buys, including Völcker, are to snatch up novel technologies that could be integrated into its products.
Völcker’s customers include drug makers, consumer products manufacturers, telecommunications companies and the government, among others.
Quest’s software builds on and improves database management and virtualization software from Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and others.
Quest’s shares were down 1% in early afternoon New York trading on a recent market value of $1.6 billion.
