WhiteHat Security’s Future

Channel Futures: is WhiteHat Security going to be consolidated with Synopsys or is it going to remain as a brand and as a Synopsis company? How is that going to work?

VS: So over time, we tend to integrate businesses and bring them into the overall fold in order to realize the synergies. That’s not to say that we would just go and pull different functions and just smash them together. We do it extremely thoughtfully to make sure that we are retaining the value of the acquisition, as well as the commitments to the customers that we are making as part of WhiteHat. So we think about this as very much a family of two that are coming together and trying to merge into what’s the best thing.

Where we see significant synergies is on our SaaS platform. We have a SaaS platform called Polaris, and so the bulk of the work that will go in is to enhance the capabilities that will be available through that SaaS platform. WhiteHat has its own SaaS platform and we will bring those two efforts together. You will see a lot more richness that a customer will realize and a partner will realize in taking it to the customers as they think about our SaaS platform.