About Magenta

We have worked with open source technologies since 1999

Magenta delivers software products in Denmark, Greenland, and Scandinavia. We develop solutions for cybersecurity and compliance that help businesses and organizations manage data and support information security. We provide our customers with development, operation, consulting, and maintenance of solutions, whether they choose cloud or on-premise. Our clients include a wide range of public institutions such as municipalities and regions, as well as some private customers.

Magenta delivers software products in Denmark, Greenland, and Scandinavia. We develop solutions for cybersecurity and compliance that help businesses and organizations manage data and support information security. We provide our customers with development, operation, consulting, and maintenance of solutions, whether they choose cloud or on-premise. Our clients include a wide range of public institutions such as municipalities and regions, as well as some private customers.

  • Offices in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Nuuk
  • 40 employees
  • We deliver open source – and only open source
  • Supplier of the SKI agreement for the Danish state, regions and municipalities.
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Implementation, advice and support

Deliverables from Magenta are always licensed under a OSI -approved open source license. At Magenta, we have extensive experience working in open source communities.

 
We conduct needs and user analyses, and design and implement the right solution with the client.
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At our developer days, which are held 2-3 times a year, data protection and contingency plans are fixed points. They are also an integral part of the checklists we use at the beginning of a project.”

Sarah Nørgaard Magnusson, Koordinator og marktingchef

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Open source

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Why open source?

Open source is simply a very effective way to develop it solutions. With access to the source code, many can collaborate on the same code without worrying about what to hide and what to show. Linus Torvalds, the man behind the most widely used open source system in the world, Linux, has put it this way: “With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” The more people who can review an open source solution, the greater the likelihood that a security vulnerability will be discovered and fixed quickly.

Open source is well on its way to becoming big business. Thousands of companies are adopting the business model and delivering open and flexible programs and systems.

Customers save money on open systems, and in a few years, we will probably look back and ask ourselves and each other why we tolerated a business model where we couldn’t share and had to pay for the same thing over and over again.

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Is open source secure?

We often hear the prejudice that access to the source code would make a product easier to hack. Access to the source code may indeed reveal the most obvious and trivial security holes, but only if they actually exist—and only if the rest of the infrastructure is not properly secured. Open source strengthens the ability to proactively address security holes, making them faster to fix.

How do we work with open source?

We have worked with security for many years. Our method is as simple as it is effective: No one can add code to a solution without at least one other colleague thoroughly reviewing the code. And often, two or three colleagues participate in the development through reviews, tests, and release processes.

In combination with our ISO certifications, it provides a working method that ensures knowledge sharing, transparency, and quick error detection and correction. In connection with the ISO certification, auditors focused on our culture and ability to keep the business running—both for our customers and ourselves.

Our team

Magentas employees

At Magenta we are often looking for new colleagues with exciting skills in software development as well as UX and project management.

Morten Kjærsgaard

We believe that the quality of our products is an important parameter to compete in the highly competitive municipal market, and we know that our reputation is a crucial asset. And then we only charge for our services – not for user licenses or forced updates. This builds trust, provides a better customer experience, and we have learned that it also brings loyal customers. “

Morten Kjærsgaard

CEO, Magenta

Magenta tutorial: Performance testing with the open source tool JMeter

Magenta has created an archive of tutorials and articles on useful open source tools that our developers use in everyday life or have tested for more specific customer solutions.

The first tutorial is about performance testing with the open source tool JMeter. The material was created by Andreas Kring, who presented JMeter at one of Magenta’s developer days. The material is divided into 3 exercises that deal with many of the basic configuration options for JMeter.

Performance testing med open source JMeter