Microsoft has acquired Opalis, a leading provider of next-generation IT process automation software.  Opalis will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft and will maintain offices in Mississauga, Ontario. The Opalis products will become part of the System Center family of datacenter management products.

Opalis provides IT process automation software. This software helps organizations to automate IT processes across their complex, heterogeneous datacenter environments. Opalis solutions include:

  • Prepackaged workflows and automation expertise for the common tasks in managing a datacenter.  Examples include Run Book Automation (RBA), virtual machine lifecycle management, incident ticket management, and cloud computing virtual machine migration
  • An automation platform designed to be simple to use by customers so they can quickly create and execute workflows across datacenter management tools
  • Deep integration capabilities to orchestrate tasks across datacenter infrastructure and systems management products including those from BMC, CA, IBM, HP, Microsoft, and Symantec

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