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Company Overview:

• Librios Ltd was established in 1997 with a customer base in information and reference publishing, providing operational streamlining and increased re-use options from a fully integrated back-office CMS. Customers included: Cassell/Orion; Penguin; A & C Black/Bloomsbury.
• From 2000 this expanded to other sectors in the UK, including: corporate knowledge management and business information (Serco; The Tomorrow Project); direct sales (The Wine Society); arts management (Visiting Arts/British Council); and health information (Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics in Newcastle; National Office of Animal Health; Imperial College/St Mary’s Hospital). It also gained its first customer in the publishing sector in the Netherlands (Het Spectrum).
• In 2007, further expansion of the UK customer-base in reference publishing (HarperCollins), arts information (Impromptu), and health information (NHS/National Library of Health Clinical Knowledge Summaries) has been accompanied by discussions with customers in the healthcare sector in Holland and in the publishing sector in the USA, Germany and Spain. Technical development of social networking capabilities linked to knowledge management is currently opening opportunities in the environmental information and the consumer travel reference sectors.
• The key selling points are the capabilities of the company's generic software’s to reduce operational costs of content development and increase opportunities for content exploitation. The company’s business model is information management consultancy followed by licensing of project-specific solutions derived from the core software. Marketing is either directly to customers or through partners. Post-contract, knowledge is transferred as much as possible to partners and customers to minimise Librios’s requirements for configuration, maintenance and support beyond the core software itself. This enables the company management to remain small while partnerships and alliances increase.

Future Activity

Expansion is planned in the Netherlands in the publishing and healthcare sectors, in the USA, Germany and Spain in the publishing sector, and in the UK in publishing, healthcare, arts administration and environmental information. Growth will be on the basis of partnerships/alliances supported by an active programme of technical R&D. 2007 will see the company's turnover expand by 50% and more rapid growth is anticipated from 2008.

Member Contacts

• Neville Mooney
  Email: neville.mooney@librios.com
  
• Alison Moore
  Email: ali@librios.com
  
• Tamiko Rex
  Email: tami@librios.com
  
• Hal Robinson
  Job: Director: Commercial Development
  Telephone: 020 8626 1852
  Fax: 020 8626 1851
  Email: hal@librios.com
  
• David Wilcockson
  Job: Director: Technical Development
  Telephone: 020 8626 1850
  Email: david.wilcockson@librios.com