Meltwater Group
The Meltwater Group is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that was founded in 2001 in Oslo. The first product solution was developed in collaboration with the "Norwegian Computing Center", which has initiated and funded the research. The founder and CEO Jørn Lyseggen has already set up next to the Meltwater Group more start-ups. Since 2001, Meltwater has expanded and built more than 50 locations in Europe, North America, Far East, Australia and Africa. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers Software as a Service Services for business customers in different market segments.
The company employs more than 900 employees and serves more than 22 000 customers worldwide.
Services / Products
Meltwater News, formerly known as the Magenta News on the market, a service for international online Medienbeoachtung, the news sources is similar to traditional news clipping service for the customer to relevant keyword searches.
Meltwater Buzz is a monitoring service for social media ( social media), the user-generated content monitors and analyzes the Internet.
Meltwater Press is a tool for media contact management that enables companies and PR agencies to identify journalists on the basis of their published articles for sending out press releases.
Meltwater Drive offers the opportunity to work together on documents, to perform secure data exchange and efficient project management and to secure computer data via cloud computing.
Meltwater Talent is a human resources management system, through which the procedures are automated and professionalized in Human Resources.
Meltwater Reach is a solution for search engine marketing ( SEM), which optimizes the spending on online advertising through the various search engines also.
Non -profit
The Meltwater Foundation is a company launched by the non-profit organization that funds the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology ( MEST ). MEST offers a two-year postgraduate training program in software entrepreneurship for Ghanaian graduates.
Litigation
Meltwater leads currently before the UK Copyright Tribunal a dispute against the English Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA ). This has her original extended to the print media, limited license model to online media, which Meltwater considered as unjustified. A decision is expected in February 2011.
Mid-March 2010 decided the Copyright Tribunal in an interlocutory decision in favor of Meltwater and ordered the NLA to the costs. The London Times Online - not themselves part of the NLA license - has begun its own, to block access to the Web crawler Meltwater on their side.