Welcome
Inmetas history goes all the way back to the year of establishment in 1993, under the company name “Teampro”. Since then the company have expanded and are now a complete softwarehouse.
About Inmeta
Inmeta has 80 employees in Scandinavia, all with long experience and high competency within Inmeta’s core business. Core business areas are licensing and consulting. The company has offices in Oslo, Bergen, Ørebro and Copenhagen. Inmeta ASA is quoted on the Oslo stock exchange (Oslo Børs) (ticker-INM).
Licensing
Inmeta has since the year of establishment in 1993 been one of the leading volume licensing partners for a number of software producers. Inmeta Licensing AS offers Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, Citrix, WMware, Oracle and others, to large and medium-sized companies. Inmeta are specialists in optimalization of agreement requirements and license procurement for their customers, and thereby protect the administrative operations the agreement provides. Inmeta are certified by the various software producers so that they can protect the regulations applicable for the respective software producers. Central focus within the license area, Software Asset Management (SAM). With the most advanced tool for license management, high competency and long experience, we support companies to retrieve full control and accordance between user rights and user patterns. We protect the values the companies has acquired and secure the best position for additional procurements so that the company save costs over a longer time. We offer to manage the whole license management.
Consulting
Inmeta has a central place in a lot of the evaluations large companies have to make concerning IT and other business critical processes, including selection of and deployment of software. Inmeta Consulting AS offers a broad specter of services that supports central IT challenges. These services include consulting, project management, design, quality management, systems integration, IT security and Datacenter Operations Management with related routines, methods and frameworks. Inmeta Consulting was established through the acquisition of NetOp in March 2007.
Nordic organization
In 2006 Inmeta established offices in Sweden and Denmark. Inmeta Licensing AB, with 20 employees, are a central software partner in the Swedish market. Inmeta Licensing AB are also a broad software partner, with a specially strong position with niche products like TechNet, MSDN and MS Press.
Main areas
(1) Inmeta Licensing AS
(a) Optimalization of procurement and management of software
(2) Inmeta Consulting AS
(a) IT infrastructure consulting.
Inmeta Licensing AS
Optimalization of license procurement Inmeta Licensing’s business consept is, through top-competency on system of agreements, licensing rules and optimal license management – support customers in making the most of volumelicensing rules in order to minimize the cost of license-investments.
Our customers want to be correctly licensed according to the law, agreements and licensing-rules, and they want a supplier who can actively support them in reconsiliate userpattern related to license-balance.
The companys largest partner and supplier has always been Microsoft. For the last year we have in addition, on behalf of our customers wishes, established competency in agreements, certifications, logistics and supplier agreements with other software producers and service providers.
Therefore, by making use of Inmeta as a supplier, you will have only one point of contact for consulting and provurement of:
• Microsoft
• Adobe
• Symantec
• Citrix
• VMware
• Oracle
• Mindjet
• Clue
In addition to competency about software producers volumelicensing-agreements Inmeta has estbalished and developed competitive services and administration routines requested by the market on these type of procurements.
Several of our customers have experienced that out top competency have saved them considerably licensing costs, considered recommandations from other licensing resellers.
Inmeta have established a well strctured and functionally system who supports all obligations you should demand from a volumelicense reseller.
Software Asset Management – Software Management
Inmeta has a strong focus on giving our customers the opportunity for control, security and financial savings in their license procurements. This is provided by our services in software Asset management, we make use two tools realted to these services. Inmeta Licens Manager (ILM), which gives a correct webbased overview of the license balance reconsiliated with the userpattern of software. To map the userpattern in the company we use Inmeta Software Discovery (ISD), which can give a monthly overview without installing agents on clients or servers.
A total license management includes:
Mapping of the customers excisting license balance
Review of today’s methods and routines for licensemanagement
Securing licensevalues
Assessements of possiblities and recommandation of solutions
Cost accounting of wanted solutions and planning of budget
Update of userpattern according to the softwareproducers necessary interval
Notification to the customer, in due time, before Software Assurance licenses expire.
Management of terms and conditions of the agreement
Training
In December 2006 Inmeta entered into an agreeement with Visma for cooperation on training and consulting services. The agreement gives Inmeta a broadnes in products and services. Visma provides training, consulting and competency-solutions within IT, in traing sites all over Norway. Visma provides:
Technical training
User training
Competency mapping
Customized training – often on-site
IT infrastructur consulting
Inmeta ASA acquired NetOp AS, established in 1995. NetOp AS is a consulting company with 33 employees specialized in IT-infrastructur. Including NetOp As, Inmeta can provide a broadnes in products and services. NetOp AS is now called Inmeta Consulting. They represent a strong competency profile within their core business Microsoft, Citrix and Wmware.
Inmeta Consulting will support our customers with implementation of a well-function, stabil and flexibel IT plattform, this through virtualization, standardization and automatization. This gives the customer benefits like better performance, structured IToperation and higher accessibility
Security is on of our most important areas, we focus on security and good accessibility of information. This means safe sones, graded systems, autentification soluitons with single SignOn or PKI solutions.
We have a good customer portfolio, a broad technical competency and healthy financial prospects. Inmeta Consulting has a subsidiary company in Vilnius with 4 consultants, and a possibility for a considerably scaling, where competency and experience are keywords.
Competency:
Microsoft infrastructur with belonging technologies and products
Virtualization and thin client solutions from Microsoft, Citrix and VMvare
Security solutions
IToperation solutions
Development .Net and Java
Analyses and technical consulting
Solutiondesign
Implementation
Technical project management
Competency transmission
Inmeta Consulting has from the yeas of establishment in 1995 focused on providing quality service within Microsoft products and solutions, to some of the largest companies in Norway. Our competency and experience has given our customers savings in cost and efficiency improvement. This has given us a competitive edge as a supplier. We have been strong within bank and finance, but in the last few years we have won new markets including public sector, and smaller companies in other trades. Merging with Inmeta will give us synergy effects in several
areas, that will benefit out customers.
Why Inmeta?
A total supplier within licensing and consulting
Broad selection of products and services
Top competence
Protect customer interest
Knut Aasrud (Managing Director, Microsoft Norge) about Inmeta:
Managing Director Knut M. Aasrud i Microsoft Norge AS think that Inmeta has an exciting progress these days. Historically Inmeta has always been an important competency partner within volume licensing agreements and the belonging services. Now that they have acquired a consulting company, that Microsoft knows well and has good experiences with, Inmeta as a company is considerably stronger. Inmeta is now a complete supplier considering the product and services they provide.
They have good competency on license, agreements, IT-infra structur, and they have training as a part of their service range.
Through their focus on electronic document-management they have buildt a solid focus related to
Sharepoint. The market they operate in has up til now been aiming towards large account customers, but now Inmeta will also strengthen their focus geografically and towards mid-range companies.
They also have a SPLA reseller status, which means focus within hosting.
In other words; this is a very exciting company to follow up on in time to come, and we will continue to work actively with them, says Aaserud.