Mamut: Delivering SME Solutions on a Software+Services Vision
Document: QT-579
Date of Publication: March
27, 2009
Number of Pages: 4
Lead Author(s):
Bruce Guptill
Price: $195
USD (Single User License)

QuickTake Summary:
Mamut
is a publicly-traded Norwegian ISV and shared / virtual hosting
provider with a broad European presence.
The company develops and sells SME-focused, on-premise,
Windows-based business management applications with hosted
collaboration, workflow management, security, upgrade, support, and
maintenance services. The
company also provides hosting services developed to complement their
business software offerings (e.g., SME e-commerce, web hosting, web
conferencing, applications integration, and site design).
Mamut
is a significant Microsoft partner, and has built most of its SME
business software and services on top of/in close integration with
the Microsoft Office suite and other key Microsoft offerings such as
Hosted Exchange and Windows Server 2008. Headquartered in
Oslo
, the company is 15 years old, has approximately 500 employees, and
has been publicly-traded since 2004 (MAMUT.OL). They currently claim
approximately 400,000 customer accounts in 16 European countries.
Mamut’s
strategy of focusing on European SMEs enables it to effectively
pursue a growth market with significant potential for future SaaS
and cloud-based offerings. It
also puts the company at some risk of aggressive competition,
including global SaaS providers.