[4] The new group helped unify the acquisitions, which included the following companies, among others: On March 5, 2012, John Swainson became president of Dell Software.

[clarification needed] Quest products are built from unique IP by in-house engineers, guided by a community of users, and backed by a global support team.

[22] Dell Software offered end-to-end solutions[buzzword] to address challenges in several business and technology areas, including six key ones:[23] Data protection software and deduplication appliances offer customized backup, replication and recovery systems for physical, virtual, application and cloud environments.

They also enable organizations to manage, visualize, analyze, audit and report across numerous appliances deployed at remote sites through a centralized console.

[29] Windows Server management and migration solutions automate administrative functions for Active Directory, Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, Office 365 and other Microsoft platforms.