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adesso Blog
23.12.2022 By Lilian Do Khac
How Father Christmas plans his route (in a way that is environmentally conscious)
The need for optimisation exists in every industry and in almost all process steps. This blog post will use a Christmas-themed example to explain how prescriptive analytics can reveal optimisation potential and how these challenges can be overcome.
Read more22.12.2022 By Ellen Szczepaniak, Zoe Holdt and Simon Bächle
VideKIS: a year of research
Conventional power plants, such as nuclear or coal-fired power plants, still provide a large portion of the system services in the electricity grid these days, for example frequency maintenance. Our blog post about the VideKIS research project will reveal how these system services should also be provided using renewable energy sources in future.
Read more21.12.2022 By Sabine Fischer
The crux with the crutches
As a privately insured person, getting medical devices, such as a wheelchair, is often not easy – hours of phoning back and forth, asking about the availability of medical devices and having applications approved. There is an easier way! This blog post will describe exactly how.
Read more20.12.2022 By Stephen Lorenzen, Maximilian Hammes and Lars Zimmermann
Annual review 2022 – the energy industry was rife with activity
The energy industry can look back on a turbulent year. In addition to technical challenges, such as the sluggish headway made with the smart meter rollout, there were two main topics that dominated the year: climate change and the war in Ukraine. In this blog post, we would like to provide a year in review and present you with a final overview of the energy industry’s 2022 fiscal year.
Read more15.12.2022 By Yelle Lieder
Life cycle assessment software – why an electricity meter is not enough
Sustainability is the megatrend of our time, and measures to increase sustainability are the talk of the town. However, in order to make improvements and evaluate them correctly, we first need to know where we stand. Unfortunately, when it comes to sustainability, there is still a bit of uncertainty and far too often greenwashing is employed. Therefore in this blog post, we will take a look at what we know about evaluating digital sustainability and where there are still uncertainties.
Read more14.12.2022 By Niklas Bug and Alexander Frommelt
Smart Claims – sustainable claims handling with a future
The idea of a sustainable insurance product impressed more than 4,000 people and consequently won first place at adesso’s Think!2022 competition. Smart Claims is a newly conceived digital product for future-oriented and sustainable claims settlement in the insurance industry. Keep reading to find out how it works, what the benefits are and who can use it.
Read more12.12.2022 By Tim Strohschneider
Artificial intelligence continues to gain ground
The demand for innovative AI-based transformer models is hard to ignore. Great advancements in development have been made in recent years, especially in areas such as machine translation and speech and text recognition. This blog post will describe how transformer technologies are used in language models.
Read more09.12.2022 By Stephen Lorenzen, Lars Zimmermann and Maximilian Hammes
Does the price cap for electricity endanger the energy transition?
The German Government is using the price cap for electricity as part of the €300 billion economic ‘defence shield’ in an attempt to cushion the rising costs for consumers in Germany. This blog post will describe what the price cap is, how the financing is supposed to work and whether it entails as many benefits as promised.
Read more08.12.2022 By Samira Hamm and Selinay Kalkan
adesso Cares About Health (CarAH) – the exchange project’s successful start
Improve healthcare systems and promote international cooperation with adesso expertise and IT know-how: this is the goal of the CarAH Project initiated by adesso and the Tokoloho Foundation day hospital in South Africa. This blog post will explain what the project is all about and how it works. It will also give insights into the international team’s collaboration thus far.
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