IMC AG

IMC AG is a German software company, publishing house and supplier of E-Learning content with headquarter in Saarbrucken.

The company IMC 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. The IMC AG does not belong to IDS Scheer, which was at that time the third largest German software company after SAP and Software AG and which was sold to Software AG in 2009, but became a part of the E-learning division within the newly founded Scheer Group GmbH. 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.

According to MMB ranking, the company is market leader for E-learning software in Germany and the second largest provider for E-learning after the in 2015 renamed Jaber AG.

The company's main product is a learning management system (abbreviated as LMS, also learning platform). This LMS 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.

In 2014, the IT Journal CHIP placed OpenCourseWorld under the three best MOOCS platforms in the German speaking world together with Coursera and iversity.

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. Other locations are Munich, Freiburg, Graz (Austria), Zurich (Switzerland), Sibiu (Romania), London (United Kingdom), Scottsdale (Arizona, United States) and Melbourne (Australia).

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