Digital sovereignty is often discussed as an infrastructure issue – as a choice of particular cloud providers or data centre locations. But in the age of AI, that perspective is too narrow. Core capabilities such as transparency and control over an organisation’s system landscape are primarily driven by the right operating model.

adesso is expanding its security concept at its Dortmund headquarters with intelligent security technology from edge AI specialist Staige. The state-of-the-art surveillance technology uses the existing camera infrastructure and supplements it with artificial intelligence to create a fully integrated security system. For Germany’s leading IT service provider, which serves numerous companies in the critical infrastructure sector, the project represents a key component in strengthening its corporate security strategy.

HIT Handelsgruppe is taking a significant step towards a digital future by collaborating with IT service provider adesso. To improve interaction with customers, the well-established food retailer is implementing Salesforce’s Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Data Cloud, thereby creating a state-of-the-art foundation for personalised and data-based customer engagement. Leveraging its extensive experience, adesso is acting as HIT’s implementation partner.

For many companies, digital sovereignty is increasingly shifting from a technical issue to a strategic management challenge, caught between the often conflicting demands of innovation, regulation, and competitiveness. At the same time, it is becoming clear that there is no one-size-fits-all route to greater operational freedom in the cloud. Requirements vary wildly depending on the use case, industry, and regulatory environment. Against this backdrop, adesso has consolidated its cloud expertise into the new cloud division (Business Line Cloud) from the beginning of 2026, in order to provide customers with vendor-neutral support for tailored multi-cloud strategies.