Seagate Software was an international software corporation headquartered in Scotts Valley, California

Scotts Valley, California

Scotts Valley is a small city in Santa Cruz County, California, United States, about thirty miles south of downtown San Jose and six miles north of Monterey Bay, in the upland slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 11,580...

, United States. It was a majority owned subsidiary of Seagate Technology

Seagate Technology

Seagate Technology is one of the world's largest manufacturers of hard disk drives. Incorporated in 1978 as Shugart Technology, Seagate is currently incorporated in Dublin, Ireland and has its principal executive offices in Scotts Valley, California, United States.-1970s:On November 1, 1979...

, the largest independent disc drive and related components company in the world.

The company had two divisions:

• Network and Storage Management Group.
• Information Management Group.

Network and Storage Management Group

The Network and Storage Management Group developed and sold software for backing data up, and ensuring smooth running of computer networks.
The group was sold to VERITAS Software

VERITAS Software

Veritas Software Corp. was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California...

 in 1999 in a deal worth $3.1 Billion.http://www.seagate.com/cda/newsinfo/newsroom/releases/article/0,1121,8,00.html

It was formed by the acquisition of NetLabs

NetLabs

NetLabs was a software company that was founded in 1989 to address management of SNMP and CMOT devices. CMOT was specified in RFC 1095. This RFC was subsequently obsoleted by RFC 1189. RFC 1147 mentions the company and some of its products in a catalog of network management tools...

, Network Computing Inc., and other companies.

The NetLabs acquisition was announced March 20, 1995.

Information Management Group

The Information Management Group developed and sold software for the business intelligence

Business intelligence

Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes....

 market. It was formed by the acquisition of Holistic Systems (of Holos

Holos

Holos is an influential OLAP product of the 1990s. Developed by Holistic Systems in 1987, the product remained in use until around 2004.-Conception:...

) and Crystal Services (of Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports

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).

Following the sale of NSMG to VERITAS, the company rebranded the remaining company Crystal Decisions

Crystal Decisions

Crystal Decisions is the name of a company that was known for its Business intelligence products....

.http://www.crn.com/it-channel/18821444;jsessionid=Z4OD2ACQRGK2DQE1GHRSKH4ATMY32JVN The name was chosen after more respondents in a survey identified Crystal Decisions as the manufacturer of Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports

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rather than the then correct Seagate Software.