Karstadt is expanding its online shop into a networked marketplace. The group has engaged adesso as its lead IT service provider for their e-commerce offensive.

adesso is working with a start up from the healthtech industry: The recently launched company nucaria offers personalised food supplements on the basis of an individual lifestyle analysis. In the future, adesso will be supporting the company in the areas of software implementation and hosting.

Many IT departments still do not work on customer experience management. That is the conclusion of a survey conducted by adesso. It is clear that many companies do not include their IT team when addressing the topic. That could become a problem.

The IT service provider adesso now has two new locations in Baden-Württemberg. The offices in Reutlingen and Vaihingen join those already located in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart, ensuring that adesso continues on its path of expansion and stays true to its aim of being as close as possible to its customers.

In its role as implementation partner for the NRW research project ON4OFF, adesso will be responsible for back-end architecture and system integration. The project has a planned duration of three years and focuses on the merging of online and physical retail. The goal is to make local retailers in North Rhine-Westphalia more competitive.

adesso mobile solutions, the mobile business experts of the IT service provider adesso, has released a study on app accessibility. Prepared in cooperation with the market research institute eye square, the paper entitled “Mobil mit Barrieren – Apps auf dem Prüfstand” (Mobile with barriers – putting apps to the test) takes a closer look at what companies need to keep in mind when developing apps.

The Christmas season is here, and the checkouts are jingling. Consumers flock to city centre shops and sales figures are higher than at any other time of year. During the rest of the year, retailers complain of lulls and revenue losses, and there is talk of a looming “haemorrhaging” of city centres. As a partner to retailers, the IT service provider adesso has identified the digital trends for 2019. The goal: “This is how bricks-and-mortar retailers can remain future-proof and attractive in the long term.”

The IT service provider adesso is expanding at its new location in Spain. The Spanish subsidiary adesso Spain – established in Barcelona in April 2018 – is acquiring the IT company SunnyTrail Consulting, which is based in Madrid and Jeréz. It offers IT consultancy and development services and is specialised in Salesforce solutions. The acquisition gives adesso a total of three locations in Spain.

adesso Switzerland, a subsidiary of adesso AG, continues to pursue its expansion strategy and will be represented in the French-speaking part of Switzerland in the future. The IT service provider is now opening a branch in Lausanne to support the existing offices in Zurich, Bern and Basel, which together already employ 250 people.

adesso AG further increased its sales revenues in the third quarter of 2018 compared to the prior quarter and the previous year. Operating earnings (EBITDA) were above the values seen in the first two quarters of 2018 and set a new record for a quarter. Development was driven by continued high organic growth in sales and the number of employees, solid capacity utilisation and a wide range of successfully completed fixed-price projects.