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By Volker Gruhn, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and founder of adesso:

No data, no AI. This basically sums up what many companies are currently experiencing. What they would actually like to achieve is data-driven working and using AI applications to deal with such issues as the shortage of skilled labour, supply chain disruptions, and other urgent problems. However, once it comes to implementing specific initiatives or projects, many realise that they do not have the data required. In this respect, a German SME based in Swabia is impacted just as much as a global player with hundreds of sites.

adesso SE, one of Germany’s leading IT service providers, moved into its new premises at the Seetor City Campus in Nuremberg last June. As an anchor tenant, the digitalisation partner to prominent public and private-sector organisations occupies an entire section of this high-profile area. In doing so, the company is highlighting the relevant role it plays in Nuremberg as a business location and metropolitan region. Thanks to steady customer growth in recent years, the number of adesso staff employed in Nuremberg has increased substantially. Employees from virtually all divisions of adesso SE and its key subsidiaries are now working at the site. The new subsidiary now provides them with significantly larger and more modern office space, workstations and meeting rooms spanning an area of around 4,500 square metres. By expanding its operations in Nuremberg, adesso is laying the ground for further growth in the region.

Although generative AI (GenAI) is now firmly established in day-to-day working life, managers and their staff have very different views on how it should be used, what is expected of it, and what the benefits are. This is confirmed by the updated and expanded GenAI study by IT service provider adesso, in which a total of 778 managers and employees from Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH) participated. While top management is already used to working with these tools, the rest of the workforce is often more hesitant.

IT service provider adesso has won the prestigious BigData Insider Award 2024 in the “Big Data Consulting” category for the fourth time running. This latest award reinforces adesso’s leading position in the field of data and analytics and confirms once again its expertise in data-driven business transformation.

IT service provider adesso was presented with the “Growth Partner of the Year Award” at this year’s Snowflake World Tour in Berlin. This award is recognition of the growth and outstanding performance achieved by adesso in implementing Snowflake solutions as well as the joint success of the two companies.

adesso has secured another major contract in the insurance industry. The digitisation partner to a large number of insurers and financial service providers is assisting LVM Versicherung, one of the 20 largest primary insurers in Germany, in setting up a brand new data environment. The project aims to migrate the existing heterogeneous data and analytics landscape onto a standardised data platform. The partners in the project are using Microsoft Azure Cloud as the underlying technology. Established working methods and processes are to be transformed and digitised at the same time. The core principle behind this is a public-cloud-first approach. In future, only data that LVM is not permitted to store externally will be retained in its own data centre. The project is part of a triple-phase project. The first phase commenced on 1 September 2024 and will run for three years. It includes the provision of the new platform and the establishment of new processes and collaboration models. In the subsequent phases, innovative applications will be developed based on the new platform and gradually rolled out to the business areas.

adesso announces a milestone in its Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) business. With more than 100 GenAI projects completed in August, the IT service provider has already reached its target for the calendar year 2024. The company anticipates a further increase in demand for GenAI solutions at the end of the year and aims to double its current revenue by the full year. adesso's GenAI customers include EnBW, RWE and BayernLB.

adesso, one of the leading IT service providers in Germany, has successfully implemented a new web application for the funding of urban development for the Bavarian State Ministry for Housing, Construction and Transport (StMB). The StMB and seven district councils in Bavaria have been working with the new IT-based urban development funding procedure, known as Städtebauförderung 2.0 (SBF 2.0) since March 2024. The procedure is used to manage urban development projects and funding. The former procedure was used to approve around seven billion euros in funding from the European Union, the federal government and the state of Bavaria for Bavarian cities, towns and municipalities.

adesso and Sächsische Lotto-GmbH (Sachsenlotto) have successfully launched “GlüXBooster”, Germany’s first second-chance portal for scratchcards. With this new web-based add-on game, Sachsenlotto customers now have additional chances of winning with all scratchcards purchased at its points of sale. The lottery operator expects the new web portal and corresponding platform to first and foremost boost customer loyalty. In addition, Sachsenlotto aims to learn more about its customers at the point of sale by adding a digital opportunity to win to its terrestrial scratch cards, to draw conclusions for product marketing.

The latest https://www.sustainabilitytransformation.org/ (STM) recently confirmed the growing importance of sustainability strategies for companies. Over 75 per cent of respondents stated that sustainability has become much more important to them. Company managers are no longer asking themselves whether they should act sustainably, but how they can best do so. The reasons are obvious. Sustainable practices make it easier for companies to meet regulatory requirements and prepare for future market changes.