Netvibes

Netvibes is a French subsidiary of Dassault Group that previously ran a web service offering a dashboard and feed reader.

Netvibes (part of Dassault Systemes)

Type of business	Public
Available in	Multilingual
Headquarters	Paris , France
Area served	Worldwide
Founder(s)	Tariq Krim
Key people	Morgan Zimmermann (CEO since 2015)
Parent	Dassault Group
URL	netvibes.com

History

2005–2012

Founded in 2005 by Tariq Krim, the company provided software for personalized dashboards for real-time monitoring, social analytics, knowledge sharing, and decision support.^[1]

2012–2025

On February 9, 2012, Dassault Systèmes announced the acquisition of Netvibes. As of 2024, the Netvibes brand comprises three French software companies acquired by Dassault Systèmes:

• Exalead: founded in 2000 by François Bourdoncle, the company provided search platforms and search-based applications for consumer and business users. On June 9, 2010, Dassault Systèmes acquired the company.^[2]
• Netvibes: the company provided software for personalized dashboards for real-time monitoring, social analytics, knowledge sharing, and decision support.^[3]
• Proxem: Founded in 2007 by François-Régis Caumartin, the company provided AI-powered semantic processing software and services. On June 23, 2020, Dassault Systèmes acquired Proxem and integrated its technology into the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform to complement its information intelligence applications.^[4]

Closure

Dassault Systèmes announced in April 2025 that Netvibes.com would retire its standalone service on June 2, 2025.^[5] The company itself continues to operate from within Dassault, but the Netvibes.com service was closed.^[6]

Activities

• Brand monitoring – to track clients, customers and competitors across media sources all in one place, analyze live results with third party reporting tools, and provide media monitoring dashboards for brand clients.
• E-reputation management – to visualize real-time online conversations and social activity online feeds, and track new trending topics.
• Product marketing – to create interactive product microsites, with drag-and-drop publishing interface.
• Community portals – to engage online communities
• Personalized workspaces – to gather all essential company updates to support specific divisions (e.g. sales, marketing, human resources) and localizations.

The software was a multi-lingual Ajax-based start page or web portal. It was organized into tabs, with each tab containing user-defined modules. Built-in Netvibes modules included an RSS/Atom feed reader, local weather forecasts, a calendar supporting iCal, bookmarks, notes, to-do lists, multiple searches, support for POP3, IMAP4 email as well as several webmail providers including Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, and AOL Mail, Box.net web storage, Delicious, Meebo, Flickr photos, podcast support with a built-in audio player, and several others.
A page could be personalized further through the use of existing themes or by creating personal theme. Customized tabs, feeds and modules can be shared with others individually or via the Netvibes Ecosystem.^[7] For privacy reasons, only modules with publicly available content could be shared.^[8]