Press Releases

Deutscher Handballbund (DHB), the official German handball federation, is going on the offensive. A refreshing overhaul of the DHB.de website will help to strengthen the ties of fans and members with the sport of handball and attract new players. The organisation is being supported by adesso. The German IT service provider will relaunch the association’s website, DHB.de, using the modern open source content management system Drupal. As a digitalisation partner, adesso will also provide advice and assistance with developing an integrated platform strategy for connecting and standardising the association’s current online presence. The relaunch of the DHB.de website is scheduled for the end of 2024. The new platform strategy is to be fully implemented by the 2027 Men’s Handball World Championship in Germany.

Thüringer Staatslotterie, the staat lottery provider for Thuringia in Germany, is pushing ahead with digitalisation by partnering up with the IT service provider adesso to launch a new ERP system. In the future, the state lottery provider plans to rely on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, taking advantage of innovative cloud technology. The project is currently scheduled to last several years, during which adesso will be responsible for implementation and further development in particular.

adesso orange, the adesso Group’s SAP subsidiary, is reorganising its pre-sales and business development activities to further support and build on the successful growth strategy of recent years. At its management meeting in early June, the Executive Board of adesso orange AG announced that Michael Bloß and Markus Ingelmann will be responsible for expanding existing business areas and developing new ones in their roles as Chief Sales Officer (CSO) and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). As CSO, Bloß will head up the pre-sales strategy and coordinate all related activities. Ingelmann, as CRO, will be responsible for the development of sales strategies and business development opportunities. Both took up their new positions on 1 July 2024.

After 17 January 2025, the European Union's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) will require all financial companies based in the EU to improve their IT resilience. This also encompasses making clear contractual arrangements with third-party ICT service providers and their sub-service providers. The contracts concluded must satisfy certain information security standards in order to ensure robust IT operations. With the new Compl.AI analysis tool, adesso assists banks and insurance companies with checking contracts and related documents for DORA compliance.

adesso plans to satisfy growing demand for superior cloud solutions with the adesso business cloud. As one of the leading digitalisation partners in the public sector, the healthcare, bank and insurance industries, adesso has launched a proprietary BSI C5 certified private cloud for companies and organisations subject to strict regulatory requirements. In the adesso business cloud, applications and data are hosted in a tested and certified environment. Leading companies in the banking, insurance and fintech sectors already rely on the cloud infrastructure, which is fully operated within Germany.

adesso, a leading IT service provider from Germany, and SWIAT GmbH, a FinTech company specialising in the development of blockchain software for an open, decentralised financial market infrastructure, are expanding their collaboration: With SWIAT Access, financial institutions now have simple and direct access to the SWIAT blockchain infrastructure. SWIAT leverages adesso’s IT expertise to achieve this. Just as a router is the point of contact for connecting to the Internet, SWIAT Access enables banks to easily and securely connect their in-house IT infrastructure to SWIAT’s blockchain ecosystem.

adesso, one of the leading IT service providers in German-speaking markets and an expert in cloud transformation projects for public organisations, is supporting ITSC’s cloud migration. Over the next few years, ITSC, the digitalisation partner of the statutory health insurance funds (SHI) in Germany, will migrate the data and workloads of health insurance funds from the on-premises data centre to the cloud with the support of adesso. That makes ITSC one of the first IT service providers in the SHI industry to open up the benefits of the cloud to its customers.

A century of company history staged as 100 years of humanity, emotions and pop culture – this was the approach chosen by the social media team of adesso’s Digital Experience business unit, which has around 400 employees, for the anniversary campaign of the cough drop brand Em-eukal. The adesso team and SOLDAN Holding + Bonbonspezialitäten GmbH, which jointly designed and implemented the “100 years of Em-eukal” campaign, have now received two awards at the German Brand Award ceremony. The participants were honoured in the categories “Excellence in Brand Strategy and Creation – Brand Communication Social Media” and “Brand Strategy and Creation – Brand Revival of the Year”.

adesso, one of Germany’s leading IT service providers, and Schwarz Digits, the IT and digital division of the Schwarz Group (which includes Lidl and Kaufland), have entered into an extensive strategic partnership. The alliance includes a collaboration between adesso and the cloud infrastructure provider STACKIT, as well as the cybersecurity specialist XM Cyber, both established Schwarz Digits brands.

adesso’s teams have almost 20 years of project experience in Google Cloud and Google enterprise products. Having already received awards from its technology partner as a specialist for Google Cloud Data Analytics and Google Cloud Machine Learning in 2023, the IT service provider has now been recognised for its expertise in the effective use of Google Ads.