Amarcon, a fully owned subsidiary of ABB, provides monitoring and forecasting software solutions for performance and availability optimization of sea-going vessels, and is the leader in vessel motion prediction solutions. ABB acquired Amarcon in august 2012 in order to strengthen its long-term growth strategy in vessel information and control systems. Amarcon and ABB offer the widest portfolio of marine advisory and optimization systems to the maritime market. Amarcon is committed to serve the maritime industry by being a product and market innovator in the industry of onboard advisory systems. Amarcon provides several products for engineering, monitoring, routing and decision support; OCTOPUS-Office, OCTOPUS-Onboard, OCTOPUS-Online and OCTOPUS-TMS. All the products are developed to complement each other and are made for one reason: to ease the main tasks on board. Since the 22nd of August 2012 Amarcon is a part of ABB, the leading power and automation technology group.