[3] Companies use Aldon's products for enterprise software application configuration and change management for their IT business processes.
[1] Aldon Computer Group was founded in 1979 by Albert Magid and Don Parr to provide tools for midrange software developers.
Designed to enable programmers to identify differences in program code, it used advanced algorithms to provide comparisons that were more accurate than other tools could produce.
Aldon made its home in downtown Oakland, California, for its initial twenty-four years of business, with the first office located in the Financial Center Building on 14th and Franklin Streets.
In 2004-2005, with the collapse of Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco, WorldCom and other financial companies, governments began to mandate standards such as those in the Sarbanes–Oxley Act.
[9] The crisis was beneficial to software change management companies who for years had championed the benefits of structured, repeatable processes, visibility and audit trails for IT.
At fiscal year end 2005, the company announced 28 percent growth, which they attributed to the success of the new product functionality.
A graphical interactive compare and merge utility was designed to enable developers working in distributed environments to see what was different between programs.
[15] Aldon began to see their larger parent corporations implement the product company-wide as their change management standard.
[16] On May 7, 2007, Aldon announced the acquisition of the business by Marlin Equity Partners, a Los Angeles, California-based private investment firm.