Immediacy and Mediasurface to Join Forces
26 June 2007 – We are
delighted to announce that Immediacy Limited and Mediasurface plc will be joining
forces to create a combined organisation that is now the clear
market leader of web content management in Europe. This initiative
was formalised this morning when Mediasurface announced its plans
to acquire Immediacy Limited.
You can read full details of
the announcement (140 KB) here.
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About Mediasurface
Mediasurface is the fastest growing content management provider
globally, counting many international brands and government
departments as its customers including Citigroup, Prudential,
Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment, AEGON, Foreign &
Commonwealth Office and Office Fair Trading to name but a
few. Its two main products; Morello developed specifically
for large multinationals and Pepperio designed for smaller
businesses, fit neatly either side of Immediacy CMS, completing the
portfolio of the group and allowing it to now address every size of
business.
Mediasurface has an impressive reputation for
innovation – indeed its enterprise strength content management
technology was recently described as a “work of art” by industry
analyst Gartner.
Combined with Immediacy’s own innovative approach to
development, we believe that the new extended organisation will be
better positioned to continue to provide you with the solutions
that you need to truly differentiate your business.
For more information about Mediasurface please visit their
website www.mediasurface.com
About Immediacy
Immediacy provides its content management
system (CMS) to a wide range of UK customers including the BBC,
JPMorganChase, Avis, Principality Building Society, British
Transport Police, The British Council, National Express, phones 4U,
Equal Opportunities Commission, Amicus Trade Union, British
Gypsum, ElanIT, MerseyCare NHS Trust and numerous local
authorities.
CMS has been consistently developed and
improved since its launch in 1997, but still maintains Immediacy’s
core values:
- Simple- the software will always focus
on ease of use because this leads to immediate productivity and
greater take-up by those tasked to create content.
- Powerful- the system provides
industrial strength flexibility and scalability along with the
regular integration of new features and technologies.
- Affordable- we maintain a transparent
pricing policy that will always aim to deliver better value than
competitive products.
For more information about Immediacy
please visit their website www.immediacy.net
Current features of the latest version
include:
- In-built accessibility checking
- Robust and scalable .NET version
- An XML based content storage
system
- A powerful WYSIWYG content editor
- Drag and drop document importing
- Comprehensive administrative
control
- A facility for developers to
write plug-ins to enhance both editing and server
functionality.
For further information, please
contact:
Matthew Goode
Chief Commercial Officer, Immediacy
Tel: +44 (0)1202 250 000
Fax: +44 (0)1202 250 001