IMC AG
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imc AG is a German software company and supplier of E-Learning content with headquarters in Saarbrücken.
The company imc information multimedia communication 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][3] 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.[4][5] Blickle and Keul left the company in 2017, Christian Wachter is still CEO today.[when?]
Sven R. Becker was appointed to the Executive Board of imc AG in January 2019 after many years of service for the company. He is responsible for the Marketing & Communication, Sales (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and Content Services divisions. Dr. Wolfram Jost joined the Executive Board in April 2019 and holds responsibility for the Technology division. He is also CTO at the [Scheer Holding GmbH].
The company's main product is a learning management system (abbreviated as LMS, also learning platform). This LMS, called imc Learning Suite, 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.[6][7][8][9]
In 2014, the IT Journal CHIP placed OpenCourseWorld under the three best MOOCS platforms in the German speaking world together with Coursera and iversity.[10]
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.[11][12] Other locations are Munich, Freiburg, Essen, Graz (Austria), Zürich (Switzerland), Sibiu (Romania), London (United Kingdom), Singapore and Melbourne (Australia).