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][2] and has additional offices in Washington DC, London and Porto.

CoreMedia
Company typePrivate
GenreSoftware
Founded1996; 28 years ago (1996) in Hamburg, Germany
FounderProf. Joachim W. Schmidt, Prof. Florian Matthes, Andreas Gawecki and Sören Stamer
Headquarters
Hamburg
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Germany
Key people
Sören Stamer, CEO
ProductsCoreMedia Content Cloud & CoreMedia Engagement Cloud
Revenue€ 30+ million
Number of employees
229
SubsidiariesCoreMedia UK Limited (London)
CoreMedia Asia Pacific Pte. Limited (Singapore)
CoreMedia Corporation (Chicago)
CoreMedia Portugal, S.A. (Porto)
Websitehttp://www.coremedia.com

Its flagship product, CoreMedia Experience Platform, is a Digital Experience Platform built for eCommerce Scenarios.

Company Overview

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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]. It has since been renamed to CoreMedia GmbH.

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]

In August 2023, it was announced CoreMedia had acquired two Porto-based software companies - BySide and Smarkio, for undisclosed amounts.[3]

A new version of CoreMedia 12 was released in 2024.

Customers

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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.[4]

The CoreMedia platform has been the original technology that powered the German Government Site Builder.[5] 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

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CoreMedia competes with Adobe AEM, Crafter CMS, Acquia, Amplience, Bloomreach, Sitecore, SDL Tridion, e-Spirit FirstSpirit, and other enterprise content management systems.[6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Bloomberg Businessweek: CoreMedia Company Overview". businessweek.com/. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  2. ^ "About CoreMedia". CoreMedia Content Cloud. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  3. ^ FinSMEs (2023-08-07). "CoreMedia Acquires BySide and Smarkio". FinSMEs. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
  4. ^ "Dev Time: Developing with CoreMedia".
  5. ^ "A Standard Web CMS for German Government". 19 November 2003.
  6. ^ "The Forrester Wave™: Web Content Management Systems, Q1 2015".