Digital Surf has launched version 8 of its Mountains software. In 25 years, the Besançon-based software has become, according to its designers, "the Windows of microscopes".
Digital Surf hadn't released a major version since version 7 in 2013. Version 7 enabled Digital Surf's rapid entry into the electron microscope market with a simple proposition: "take your electron microscope from 2D black & white to 3D color!". A message well received, since it has enabled the company to recently sign agreements with Hitachi (Japan), Zeiss (Germany), JEOL (Japan) and Thermofisher Scientific (USA), who now offer Mountains to their customers worldwide.
A new target market
Faster, version 8 now targets even more precise microscopes: near-field microscopes (whose inventors were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986). In 2014, Bisontine-based Digital Surf acquired its Danish competitor, Image Metrology, and its SPIPTM software, which is more specialized in this type of microscope. The new Mountains version 8 is the result of the merger of the two software packages, and is now ready to take on these microscopes of the infinitely small, which hold the key to tomorrow's scientific challenges (such as clean energy storage, or the eradication of cancer and genetic diseases).
Partner to manufacturers worldwide
Today, Mountains software is already supplied by over 50 microscope and instrument manufacturers worldwide and, thanks to the absorption of Denmark's Image Metrology, has an installed base of over 20,000 users in public and private laboratories on every continent.
In May, Mountains 8.0 was previewed by Digital Surf at the Control trade show in Stuttgart, where it also featured prominently on many manufacturer stands.
Digital Surf exports 94 % of its production, including 24 % to Asia and 16 % to North America. Sales of Mountains software have been rising steadily, doubling every six years for over 20 years. "The company employs 42 people, including 36 in Besançon, and is targeting sales of €5 million in 2019. Probably the only company in the Franche-Comté region to count most of the world's major corporations among its customers, including GAFA, Digital Surf started from scratch in 1989 and is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year," says the company.
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