Mediasurface Limited (previously known as Webdevelopment Ltd) was a UK-based supplier of
content management system
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s and associated services, founded in February 1996 by Ben Hayman and Steve Hebditch.
Their product, (renamed Morello in 2004) was used for websites and intranets at organisations including
Aegon
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,
Borealis,
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,
UK Government Home Office,
Citigroup
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,
UK Government Environment Agency and
Prudential plc
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.
History
The company was headquartered in London Bridge until early 2001 when the company moved to a new headquarters in
Newbury, UK. Mediasurface floated on the
Alternative Investment Market
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of the
London Stock Exchange
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in August 2004. Mediasurface had international offices in the USA, Netherlands, and Australia.
In April 2005 Mediasurface acquired Silverbullet, a small CMS vendor in the Netherlands. Mediasurface redeveloped and relaunched this CMS as
Pepperio in May 2006.
In June 2007 Mediasurface acquired Immediacy, a competing CMS vendor, for approximately £5.6 million.
In January 2008 the Pepperio product was acquired by Purestone (a UK based digital agency)
In July 2008 Mediasurface was acquired by Alterian, a marketing software vendor.
[Goodbye Morello, Hello Alterian CME](_blank)
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Under the ownership of Alterian the Morello product was renamed Alterian Content Management (ACM)
In 2010 Alterian consolidated to a single CMS platform (ACM) and dropped the Immediacy product.[SDL Acquires Alterian, Beefing Up Its Customer Experience Story](_blank)
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Content management systems
Software companies of the United Kingdom
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