Accedian is a Montreal-based network and application performance management (NAPM) vendor that has been serving primarily communication service providers for the last fifteen years. More recently, it has focused on developing and selling NAPM solutions to enterprise IT organizations. Although it is relatively unknown to North American enterprises, the company is expanding its go-to-market and customer support capabilities in the United States. Network operations professionals should evaluate Accedian’s products when shortlisting network performance monitoring (NPM) products.