IMC AG

IMC AG is a German software company, publishing house and supplier of E-Learning content with headquarters in Saarbrücken.

Development

The company IMC AG was founded in 1996 within the Scheer Group of the Saarland, by business informatics professor and former BITKOM President August-Wilhelm Scheer as a spin off to bundle the E-learning business and to expand.[1][2] The IMC AG does not belong to IDS Scheer, which was at that time the third largest German software company after SAP and Software AG and which was sold to Software AG in 2009, but became a part of the E-learning division within the newly founded Scheer Group GmbH.[3][4][5] August-Wilhelm Scheer is the Head of the Supervisory Board.

In June, 2014, Wolfgang Kraemer, Frank Milius, and Volker Zimmermann, founding Board members, left the company after 17 years. Their Successors were Christian Wachter, Tobias Blickle and Rudolf Keul.[6][7]

According to MMB ranking, the company is market leader for E-learning software in Germany and the second largest provider for E-learning after the in 2015 renamed Jaber AG.[8] [9] [10]

The company's main product is a learning management system (abbreviated as LMS, also learning platform). This LMS developed by IMC is also the technical basis of the 2011 introduced free access MOOCS platform OpenCourseWorld. First courses were offered in January 2013. By the end of 2013, the MOOCS platform was revised and redesigned. Also, more courses were offered, in particular in the areas of information technology, economics and health care.[11][12][13][14]

In 2014, the IT Journal CHIP placed OpenCourseWorld under the three best MOOCS platforms in the German speaking world together with Coursera and iversity.[15]

2013, the company moved with 170 employees in the new building of the Scheer towers on the University campus North of the University of the Saarland. The red facade made of aluminium of the nine-storey office building is supposed to create associations to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and the Californian Silicon Valley as the location of IT startups and high-technology.[16][17] Other locations are Munich, Freiburg, Graz (Austria), Zurich (Switzerland), Sibiu (Romania), London (United Kingdom), Scottsdale (Arizona, United States), Singapore and Melbourne (Australia).

Products

In addition to the MOOCS platform OpenCourseWorld and E-learning content, the IMC AG publishes books and sells in particular software products. These include the IMC Learning Suite, a learning platform, the IMC Content Studio, an authoring software for creating E-learning content and the IMC Process Guide, an electronic performance support system (EPSS). The Educational Software is used among others by the New York Stock Exchange, the British National Health Service and the citizenship test in Austria.[18][19] The learning platform ranked third among 600 tested programs in the international LMS mid-year ranking of 2014 as the "best software of Germany".

As Publisher, in addition to several books on management issues, the IMC AG first published the journal IM+ioin 2013, merging the journal „IM Information management and consulting“ published since 1986 and the magazine „io“, founded in 1932 and until then issued by the Axel Springer Verlag. Partner is the BWI Center for Industrial Management of ETH Zurich.

References
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  2. Hielscher, Hans in Der Spiegel: Jazz und Wirtschaft: Manager sollten Miles hören", 31. Juli 2009
  3. Ohne Verfasser in Boersennews: Paukenschlag in der Branche - Software AG kauft IDS Scheer 14. Juli 2009
  4. Briegleb, Volker in heise.de Software AG und IDS Scheer schließen Beherrschungsvertrag 24. November 2009
  5. Eisenring, Christoph (15 July 2009). "Fusion im Markt für Firmensoftware". NZZ Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German).
  6. Warscheid, Lothar in Saarländische Zeitung: Gesamter Vorstand verlässt Saarbrücker Softwarehaus IMC, 21. Juni 2014
  7. Ohne Verfasser in checkpoint eLearning News : Führungswechsel - Neue Ära bei der IMC AG bricht an, Juni 2014
  8. Ohne Verfasser auf Website des Unternehmens: Comenius-Award: Webbasiertes Lernspiel überzeugt die Jury, 1. Juli 2015
  9. Michel, Lutz MMB Institut für Medien- und Kompetenzforschung in MMB E-Learning Branchenmonitor 2014, 2014
  10. Chaton, Cornelia in FAZ: Lernen im Intranet, 20. Januar 2001
  11. Ebner, Martin in Kleine Zeitung "Europa hinkt nach", 16. Mai 2013
  12. Reinmann, Gabi et al. in: Hochschuldidaktik im Zeichen von Heterogenität und Vielfalt - Doppelfestschrift für Peter Baumgartner und Rolf Schulmeister, 2. Februar 2014
  13. Seeger, Jürgen in iX - Magazin für professionelle Informationstechnik "Kostenfreie Online-Kurse mit Uni-Unterstützung", 20. Dezember 2012
  14. Ohne Verfasser in Business-On SaarLorLux - Wirtschaftsportal der Region Saarland, Lothringen, Luxemburg "IMC verbessert eLearning-Plattform OpenCourseWorld", 4. Dezember 2013
  15. Matthies, Laura in Chip: MOOC-Plattform: Die 3 besten Anbieter, 3. Mai 2014
  16. Warscheid, Lothar in Saarbrücker Zeitung "Neues IT-Gebäude Scheer-Tower an der Saar-Uni eingeweiht", 10. Januar 2013
  17. Ohne Verfasser auf YouTube: Scheer Tower - Der Film, 10. Januar 2013.
  18. Warscheid, Lothar (2 February 2014). "Saarbrücker Lernsoftware-Spezialist IMC will mit Mooc "die Bildung demokratisieren"". Pfälzischer Merkur. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  19. Warscheid, Lothar Saarbrücker Zeitung: Australier lernen mit Saar-Software, 11. Juli 2009
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