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SpecTec is a supplier of ERP software covering maintenance, supply chain management and quality management to the Maritime, Defence and Offshore industries.

History
The company was formed in 1985 from the Norwegian naval architects company Arnesen Christensen. The company acquired Marisoft AS (Norway) and Marine Management Systems (USA). In 1995, the company was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange as SpecTec ASA. and went on to merge with companies Multisoft, SpecTec and Dovre Informasjonssystemer to form the Visma Group. The Maritime division was renamed Visma Marine. In 2000, the SpecTec business was then acquired by Station 12, the satellite communications subsidiary of KPN, the Dutch national telephone company. The merged company was renamed Xantic BV and Xantic was one of the largest service providers to satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat

SpecTec became independent again in May 2005.

SpecTec is headquartered in La Spezia, Italy, and has 25 offices throughout the world.

Mergers and Acquistions

 * 1985 – SpecTec Consult AS is established
 * 1986 – 1988: SpecTec Consult AB (Sweden), SpecTec Inc (USA), SpecTec Srl (Italy) are established as independently owned distributors
 * 1987 – SpecTec Inc (USA) is established, independently owned
 * 1988 – SpecTec Srl becomes distributor for Italy, independently owned
 * 1989 – SpecTec Ltd (UK) is established as 1st majority owned subsidiary
 * 1990 – SpecTec Singapore is established as a subsidiary
 * 1993 – SpecTec Ltd (Hong Kong) is established and Dataship HK is taken over
 * 1995 – SpecTec Inc (USA) acquired as subsidiary
 * 1995 – SpecTec GMBH Germany is established
 * 1996 - All major SpecTec distributors are acquired and SpecTec ASA listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange
 * 1996 – SpecTec mergers with Dovre Information System and Multisoft to become Visma ASA
 * 1996 – SpecTec acquires Kockumation with AMOS Mail and Kockumation Loading System
 * 1998 – SpecTec acquires Marinor
 * 1999 – SpecTec acquires MMA Inc
 * 1999 – SpecTec acquires SAMA and RAST
 * 2000 – VISMA ASA sells SpecTec to KPN and combined with KPN's Station12 and Telstra Global Satellite to become Xantic
 * 2005 – SpecTec sold to private shareholders.
 * 2008 – SpecTec acquires IDEA
 * 2012 – SpecTec acquired by Volaris

Products

 * AMOS-D (DOS system up until 1998)
 * AMOS-Link (DOS system up until 1998)


 * AMOS Business Suite
 * AMOS Enterprise Suite
 * AMOS Mail

International Standards
SpecTec now own and maintain the SFI Group ship numbering system, formerly created by the Skipsteknisk Forskningsinstitutt (Ship Research Institute of Norway).

SpecTec are founding committee members of the Maritime E-Commerce Association (MECA) responsible for the MTML e-commerce data standards; and ShipDex, a maritime industry subset of S1000D, for interchange of equipment and maintenance data.