Founded in February 1996 by Ben Hayman and Steve Hebditch Mediasurface Limited (previously known as Webdevelopment Ltd) was a UK-based supplier of

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s and associated services. Their product, (renamed Morello in 2004) was used for websites and intranets at organisations including Aegon,

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, UK Government Home Office,

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, UK Government Environment Agency and

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History

The company was headquartered in London Bridge until early 2001 when the company moved to a new headquarters in Newbury, UK. Mediasurface floated on the

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of the

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in August 2004. Mediasurface had international offices in the USA, Netherlands, and Australia. In April 2005 Mediasurface acquired Silverbullet, a small CMS vendor in the Netherlands. Mediasurface redeveloped and relaunched this CMS as Pepperio in May 2006. In June 2007 Mediasurface acquired Immediacy, a competing CMS vendor, for approximately £5.6 million. In January 2008 the Pepperio product was acquired by Purestone (a UK based digital agency) In July 2008 Mediasurface was acquired by

Alterian Alterian is a campaign management and real-time marketing software company headquartered in Denver, CO with offices in Bristol, UK and Sydney, Australia. Alterian was founded by Mike Talbot, David Eldridge and Tim McCarthy in 1997. Initially b ...

, a marketing software vendor.Goodbye Morello, Hello Alterian CME
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the Morello product was renamed Alterian Content Management (ACM) In 2010 Alterian consolidated to a single CMS platform (ACM) and dropped the Immediacy product. In January 2012,

was acquired by

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, a UK-based technology company.SDL Acquires Alterian, Beefing Up Its Customer Experience Story
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