Epicentric, Inc., was an Enterprise software

Enterprise software

Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software , is software used in organizations, such as in a business or government, contrary to software chosen by individuals...

 company and a provider of enterprise portal solutions for Global 2000 companies. Made popular by custom portal sites like My Yahoo!, enterprise portals enabled businesses (primarily enterprise companies) to deliver integrated Web services to their customers (Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

), partners (Extranet

Extranet

An extranet is a computer network that allows controlled access from the outside, for specific business or educational purposes. An extranet can be viewed as an extension of a company's intranet that is extended to users outside the company, usually partners, vendors, and suppliers...

) and employees (Intranet

Intranet

An intranet is a computer network that uses Internet Protocol technology to securely share any part of an organization's information or network operating system within that organization. The term is used in contrast to internet, a network between organizations, and instead refers to a network...

). The company was founded in 1998 by Wired.com executive Ed Anuff

Ed Anuff

Ed Anuff is a serial entrepreneur who was most recently Executive Vice President and GM, Platform Products and Services at Six Apart, Ltd. Before joining Six Apart he was co-founder of Widgetbox , a marketplace for widgets, and the company's original CEO...

 and TouchWave

TouchWave

TouchWave, Inc. , was a privately-held Palo Alto, California IP-telephony network switch provider founded in 1997. TouchWave developed a product line called WebSwitch that was designed to replace traditional private telephone exchange systems in small-to-medium-sized companies...

 executive Oliver Muoto

Oliver Muoto

Oliver Muoto is a Polish-born serial entrepreneur responsible for co-founding several early stage companies including vFlyer , Epicentric and RandomNoise...

, both startup veterans, in San Francisco, CA. The company had over 300 employees and 350 Global 2000 customers before it was acquired by Vignette (VIGN) in December 2002.

Company history

The company was founded by Ed Anuff

Ed Anuff

Ed Anuff is a serial entrepreneur who was most recently Executive Vice President and GM, Platform Products and Services at Six Apart, Ltd. Before joining Six Apart he was co-founder of Widgetbox , a marketplace for widgets, and the company's original CEO...

 and Oliver Muoto

Oliver Muoto

Oliver Muoto is a Polish-born serial entrepreneur responsible for co-founding several early stage companies including vFlyer , Epicentric and RandomNoise...

 in 1998. The company received Series A funding from Outlook Ventures, New Vista Capital and Innovacom Ventures (investment arm of France Telecom

France Télécom

France Telecom S.A. is the main telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 180,000 people and has 192.7 million customers worldwide . In 2010 the group had revenue of €45.5 billion...

).

Company Products

• Epicentric Foundation Server
• Epicentric Application Builder
• Epicentric Module Marketplace

Investors

Investors included JP Morgan, CRC

CRC

- Organizations :* California Rehabilitation Center, a state prison in the USA* Cambridge Regional College, a further education college* Cambridge Regional College F.C., a semi-professional football club in England* Canada Research Chair* Capital Research Center...

,Outlook Ventures, New Vista Capital, Motorola

Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...

and others.

Competitors

Competitors include Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is a former software company founded in 1996 by product managers and engineers from Oracle and Informix with funding from Sequoia Capital. The company was a pioneer of extending the portal concept popularized by Yahoo! from the web to enterprise computing. BEA Systems acquired...

 (now BEA

Bea

- Aviation :*British European Airways*Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile, the French agency responsible for investigating aviation accidents- People :* Augustin Bea , a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church...

), IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

, and Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

.

Acquisitions

Epicentric acquired Application Park, a web-services tools company, in 2001. In December 2002, Epicentric was acquired by Austin, TX-based Vignette

Vignette (software)

Vignette Corporation is a company headquartered in Austin, Texas, that offers a suite of content management, portal, collaboration, document management, and records management software. On May 6, 2009 Open Text Corporation announced they would buy Vignette for $310 million...

Corp.