The IT service provider adesso has appointed Oliver Schobert to serve as its Chief Sales Officer (CSO). The 49-year-old will focus on corporate account management within the adesso Group. In this newly created position, Schobert will report directly to the CEO of adesso AG.

adesso AG has confirmed its investment- and growth-oriented sales and earnings forecast for 2019 with the publication of its half-year report. The adesso Group increased sales in the first half of 2019 by 20 % year on year to a new half-year record of EUR 213.3 million. The vast majority of this growth came organically. High licensing revenues in the second quarter involving in|sure products for companies in the insurance sector were able to compensate for growth- and market-related earnings declines in services business.

In developing AI projects, businesses must ensure that data-driven applications set their own special requirements when it comes to responsibilities. IT service provider adesso believes that four roles are key to successful development and implementation. Those responsible for AI projects can learn a great deal from the Bauhaus movement.

adesso insurance solutions GmbH reported its highest ever single-quarter licence sales with the in|sure product family for the insurance industry. In the first six months of 2019, sales volume generated through licence business reached more than EUR 9 million and hereby already well exceeded full-year’s figure 2018.

Artificial intelligence in banking – what exactly is possible? How can it be sensibly used? And what is feasible without being too costly? adesso gets to grips with these questions in its new AI lab for the banking sector. Banks can use this lab to take part in solution-oriented brainstorming sessions and find out what business opportunities and added value can be tapped into by using artificial intelligence.

adesso as a service GmbH, the managed cloud and service provider of the adesso Group, and the Irish IT security service provider edgescan have entered into a partnership. adesso as a service now offers services based on edgescan’s vulnerability management solutions.

The IT service provider help establish the German federal government’s “BIM centre of competence” together with the planen-bauen 4.0 initiative. The project is financed by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur – BMVI) in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry of the Interior (Bundesministerium des Innern – BMI).

The InVerSiv research project delivers intelligent infrastructure for greater safety in urban traffic. At the conclusion of the project, the IT service provider adesso presents a vision for enhanced road safety in the future.

Visitors will have an opportunity to find out what AI applications can do today and what factors will drive competition in the future at adesso digital day, to be held at Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany, on 10 July 2019. The IT service provider will be joined by science fiction expert Dr Hubert Zitt and Martina Voss-Tecklenburg, head coach of the German women’s national football team.

Many companies are considering using artificial intelligence. But only a few AI applications are actually in use. That was revealed by a survey of the status quo conducted by IT service provider adesso.