OUR HISTORY
Our mission is to help customers unlock endless digital possibilities by harmonizing the delivery of software.
Our objective is both to help our customers facilitate a more integrated software development lifecycle, and to derive a better understanding of business value through the application of analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. We do this with our AI-powered DevOps Platform, which enables customers to unify, secure, and generate predictive insights across the software lifecycle. While the technology we provide enables customers to digitally transform, it is also important to note that with the help of hundreds of Digital.ai worldwide employees, we help answer, implement, and guide our customers through technology and strategic decisions.
The company began as a collection of individual products derived from a series of acquisitions in 2020. Collectively, we have over 50 years’ of experience in categories ranging from agile planning, app security, testing, release and deploy, to analytics and intelligence. Here’s a brief history of our founding companies:
1999, CollabNet, Inc. – was founded in California by Bill Portelli, Brian Behlendorf, Tim O’Reilly to provide cloud-based application lifecycle management solutions. One of their initial products included TeamForge, which was one of the first solutions supporting application lifecycle management.
2001, Arxan Technologies – was founded in California, by Eric Davis and Purdue University researchers Mikhail Atallah, Tim Korb, John Rice and Hoi Chang. The initial focus for the company was on defense anti-tamper applications, and out of which spawned App Protection and Security solutions.
2002, VersionOne, Inc. – was founded in Georgia by Robert Holler and Rajiv Delwadia. The company’s main focus was to support people, process and agile lifecycle management technology requirements emerging from the agile development market.
2008, XebiaLabs – was founded in the Netherlands by Coert Baart and Vincent Partington, and backed by Xebia Group, a digital software and services company based in the Netherlands. The company provided one of the industry’s first cloud automation and management platform that enabled companies to automate software releases.
2008, Experitest – was founded in Israel by Tal Barmeir and Guy Arieli. The teams initial focus was to provide a quality assurance platform that supported both manual and automated testing initiatives for web and mobile applications.
2012, Numerify – was founded by Gaurav Rewari, Srikant Gokulnatha, and Sadanand Sahasrabudhe in California. The initial focus and ensuing technology the team provided was to provide IT and development organizations a system of intelligence , powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning that enabled better performance.
2017, CollabNet VersionOne – realizing the combined power of application lifecycle management and enterprise agile planning, CollabNet and VersionOne merged to support organizations with both traditional software delivery, as well as delivery methods focused on Agile and other iterative practices.
April 2020
June 2020
2020 - Recognizing the need to help customers facilitate a more integrated software development lifecycle, and to derive a better understanding of business value through the application of analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, Digital.ai was formed. The initial merger in April combined the strengths of CollabNet VersionOne, XebiaLabs and Arxan, and in June, the acquisitions of Numerify and Experitest were finalized.
While each Digital.ai product is competitive in its category, it is through the integration of our products, the connections to hundreds of other third-party products, and a unified analytical model that truly represents our unique approach to supporting customers’ challenges. Because of the heritage of our company, we have a remarkable footprint in leading large-scale transformations in enterprises like your business.
