The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that the trading of Splunk® Inc. (Nasdaq:SPLK) commenced on the NASDAQ Global Select Market® on Thursday, April 19, 2012 under the ticker symbol SPLK.
Splunk® Inc. provides software which collects, indexes and analyzes the massive machine data continuously generated by the websites, applications, servers, networks and mobile devices that power business. Splunk software enables organizations to monitor, search, analyze, visualize and act on massive streams of real-time and historical machine data. More than 3,700 enterprises, universities, government agencies and service providers in more than 75 countries use Splunk Enterprise to gain operational intelligence that deepens business understanding, improves service and uptime, reduces cost and mitigates cyber-security risk.
"Splunk's innovative software helps organizations collect machine data, regardless of whether it was generated in physical, virtual or cloud environments. Organizations use Splunk to power their machine-generated data for application management, IT operations, cyber-security, compliance, web intelligence and business analytics," said Bob McCooey, Senior Vice President, NASDAQ OMX Corporate Client Group. "NASDAQ OMX is thrilled to welcome Splunk Inc. into our family of listed companies, and look forward to our partnership with them as they embark on their journey as a public company."
Since its inception, NASDAQ OMX® has consistently been the exchange of choice for the world's most progressive and innovative companies. Splunk joins some of the world's largest technology companies by listing on The NASDAQ Stock Market®, including Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Google, Intel, Cisco, eBay, Baidu, Adobe, Dell, Yandex and Zynga. As of year-end 2011, NASDAQ was home to 73% of all info tech and telecom companies that list their shares on U.S. markets, and was home to the two largest tech IPOs of 2011, Yandex (Nasdaq:YNDX) and Zynga (Nasdaq:ZNGA).
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NASDAQ Welcomes Splunk Inc. To The NASDAQ Global Select Market
Date 19/04/2012