NetIQ was founded by Ching-fa Hwang, Her-daw Che, Hon Wong, Ken Prayoon Cheng and Tom Kemp in September 1995;
AppManager was introduced in 1996. Their February 2000 merger with Mission Critical Software In 2001, NetIQ acquired
Webtrends, whose software "monitors corporate Internet traffic." — which they sold in 2005. In 2006, NetIQ was acquired by
AttachmateWRQ, After that company acquired Novell in 2011, it changed its name to The Attachmate Group. NetIQ added identity and security products as well as data center and virtualization to their offerings. It was the Attachmate acquisition that led to the alignment of NetIQ products into three categories: • identity and access management, • security management and • data center management. In 2014,
The Attachmate Group was merged into
Micro Focus International. NetIQ also announced the use of an Identity Manager number 4.5. ==See also==