CoreMedia CMS

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CoreMedia
TypePrivate
GenreSoftware
Founded1996;27 years ago (1996) in Hamburg, Germany
FounderProf. Joachim W. Schmidt, Prof. Florian Matthes, Andreas Gawecki and Sören Stamer
Headquarters
Hamburg
,
Germany
Key people
Sören Stamer, CEO
ProductsCoreMedia Content Cloud
Revenue€ 17.6 million
Number of employees
164
Subsidiaries CoreMedia UK Limited (London)
CoreMedia Asia Pacific Pte. Limited (Singapore)
CoreMedia Corporation (Chicago)
Website http://www.coremedia.com

CoreMedia is a global provider of digital experience solutions[ buzzword ] with corporate headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, and U.S. headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. The company was founded in 1996 [1] and has additional offices in Washington DC and London.

Contents

Its flagship product, LiveContext 3, is a Content Management System built for eCommerce Scenarios.

Company Overview

The company was founded in 1996 by Prof. Joachim W. Schmidt, Prof. Florian Matthes, Andreas Gawecki, and Sören Stamer as a spin-off from the Hamburg University of Science and Technology. [ citation needed ] Its first two customers were Deutsche Presse Agentur and Axel Springer Verlag. [ citation needed ] In 2000, the company was renamed as CoreMedia AG and the following year Deutsche Telekom launched its T-Online portal on CoreMedia software. [ citation needed ] The company opened its first North American offices in 2005. [ citation needed ]

In 2012, CoreMedia introduced Elastic Social, an enhanced version of its social toolset with new social interaction capabilities, content moderation tools, user management, and a scalable NoSQL datastore. Two years later, CoreMedia LiveContext for IBM WebSphere Commerce was launched. [ citation needed ]

A new version of CoreMedia 9 was released in January 2017.

In August 2023, it was announced CoreMedia had acquired two Porto-based software companies - BySide and Smarkio, for undisclosed amounts. [2]

Customers

CoreMedia's clients include the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Bertelsmann, BILD, Claas, Continental AG, Epcos, Deutsche Telekom, Henkel, Internet Broadcasting Systems, Office Depot, JD Group, Tchibo, Telefónica Germany and ZDF. [3]

The CoreMedia platform has been the original technology that powered the German Government Site Builder. [4] The Government Site Builder (GSB) provides all federal authorities of the German government with a uniform content management system (CMS). CoreMedia partner, Materna, developed the solution[ buzzword ] on behalf of the German Federal Office of Administration and customized it to meet the requirements of the federal authorities. [ citation needed ] Later versions of the Government Site Builder have been migrated away from CoreMedia and rely on open-source software.

Competitors

CoreMedia competes with Adobe AEM, Crafter CMS, Acquia, Amplience, Bloomreach, Sitecore, SDL Tridion, e-Spirit FirstSpirit, and other enterprise content management systems. [5]

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References

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