Company behind search engine Elasticsearch
Elastic NV is an American-Dutch software company that provides self-managed and software as a service (SaaS) offerings for search , logging, security, observability, and analytics use cases.[ 2] Amsterdam , the Netherlands, and was previously known as Elasticsearch.[ 3]
The company develops the Elastic Stack—Elasticsearch , Kibana , Beats, and Logstash—previously known as the ELK Stack,[ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
Elasticsearch technology is used by eBay , Wikipedia , Yelp , Uber , Lyft , Tinder , and Netflix .[ 7] [ 8] application performance management , security analytics (also used to augment security information and event management applications), and business analytics. The Elasticsearch meetup community totals more than 100,000 members.[ 9] New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ESTC.[ 10]
Citing headwinds from the global macroeconomic environment, Elastic NV announced a 13% reduction in headcount on November 30, 2022.[ 11] [ 12]
Acquisitions
Elastic N.V.,has made several strategic acquisitions to expand its product offerings and capabilities.
Prelert – In 2016, Elastic acquired Prelert, a machine learning company specializing in anomaly detection.[ 13] [ 14] Swiftype [ 15] Endgame [ 16] build.security – In 2021, Elastic acquired build.security, a cloud security company focusing on policy definition and enforcement.[ 17] [ 18] Cmd – In 2021, Elastic acquired Cmd, a company that provides organizations with intuitive monitoring and control over their Linux environment.[ 19] Optimyze – The most recent acquisition was Optimyze on October 14, 2021 which is a cloud computing company based in Zurich.[ 20]
References
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