Amcom Software, Inc. is a communication software

Communication software

Communication software is used to provide remote access to systems and exchange files and messages in text, audio and/or video formats between different computers or user IDs...

 company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

. Amcom was founded in 1984 and now has offices located in New York, NY, Jacksonville, FL, Bedford, NH, Perth, Australia

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

, and the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Amcom Software connects people to each other and to data. Amcom products are used in call center communications, emergency management

Emergency management

Emergency management is the generic name of an interdisciplinary field dealing with the strategic organizational management processes used to protect critical assets of an organization from hazard risks that can cause events like disasters or catastrophes and to ensure the continuance of the...

, wireless

Wireless

Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...

 messaging middleware

Middleware

Middleware is computer software that connects software components or people and their applications. The software consists of a set of services that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact...

, smartphone pager replacement, and paging

Paging

In computer operating systems, paging is one of the memory-management schemes by which a computer can store and retrieve data from secondary storage for use in main memory. In the paging memory-management scheme, the operating system retrieves data from secondary storage in same-size blocks called...

 infrastructure for leading organizations in hospitality, healthcare, education, business, and government. Amcom systems are used at more than 3,000 customer locations including top hospitals in the United States.

History

Jack Collins founded Amcom Software in 1984 in Minneapolis. In March 2007, 2ndWave Software acquired the company and in November 2007, Amcom Software announced a merger to with Xtend Communications. In January 2008, Amcom acquired Telident E911 Solutions from Teltronics, Inc. Amcom then acquired Commtech Wireless in September 2008. In February 2009, Amcom acquired SDC Solutions.