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adesso has announced its partnership with the private XU Exponential University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam: The first “adesso XU cohort” began their bachelor’s degree at the new adesso School of Coding and Software Engineering yesterday. The first-year students joining the course in the winter semester 2020/21 include two female students receiving the She for IT scholarship. She for IT scholarships form a pillar of the programme of measures adesso has developed to raise involvement of women in IT professions as part of the She for IT initiative.

Mecklenburgische Versicherungsgruppe from Hannover has decided to introduce in|sure PSLife by adesso insurance solutions. In the future, both new business and existing contracts in the life insurance division will be administrated based on in|sure.

adesso is the new official main sponsor and partner of Borussia Dortmund’s youth department, popularly known as the “Dortmunder Jungs”. Between now and 2023, the youth squad of Borussia Dortmund (BVB) will bear the name of the Dortmund-based IT service provider on its shirts. In addition to traditional sponsorship, the two parties have also reached an agreement regarding IT services to be provided by adesso.

This year’s “Was Online-Kunden wünschen” (What online customers want) study, conducted by ARITHNEA and adesso, has revealed that most online shoppers in Germany are still happy with their online customer experience, but slightly less so than they were in 2019. According to the study, speed continues to be key. For the first time, the study distinguished between online shopping for businesses and pri-vate consumers. The study shows that business customers are slightly less satis-fied than private customers. B2B customers want comprehensive customer portals that show the full history and information, as well as personal, tailored treatment.

The adesso Group is growing: Walldorf is set to host the new office from September. This takes adesso’s total number of offices in Germany to 25. By opening the new branch here, adesso is primarily investing in the collaboration with the SAP software group, which has its global headquarters in Walldorf.

adesso is welcoming 21 career starters to the company. This year sets a new record at adesso for the number of students and apprentices launching their careers despite the coronavirus pandemic.

SOKA-BAU chose the policy management system in|sure PSLife and the software solution MIGSuite for data migration from adesso insurance solutions. This means that by the middle of 2023, one of the largest pension funds in Germany will have completely reorganized the way it keeps track of its funded pension products. With this alliance, adesso insurance solutions confirms its leading role as a partner for medium-sized pension companies.

We not only excel at being thorough and exact – we can also act spontaneously and quickly. That is one of the lessons of the coronavirus pandemic, which remains acute. When the need arose, project teams and entire companies rapidly switched to working at a distance. While the change was not always seamless, the right attitude and the right technology made it possible.

* Dirk Pothen is a Member of the Executive Board of the IT service provider adesso, which currently has approximately 4,200 employees. In his role as Member of the Executive Board with responsibility for human resources, Pothen heads the company’s “She for IT” initiative, which aims at attracting and recruiting more women to follow a career in IT. In Pothen’s view, increasing the proportion of women at IT companies requires a demanding but unavoidable process of change management. He aims to recruit 40 women into management roles by 2022. In this commentary, he examines this difficult situation and offers tips for male-dominated companies that want to start increasing their proportion of female employees, benefit from diversity and consistently achieve equality.

The adesso subsidiary and e-commerce and CMS specialist ARITHNEA GmbH is merging with adesso SE. The integration measure will allow IT service provider adesso to strengthen its offerings in the field of customer experience and provide customers with improved service from a single source.