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adesso AG recorded the most successful financial year in its 20-year history in 2016. The IT service provider’s sales rose by 33 % to EUR 260.4 million, while operating earnings increased by 61 % to EUR 23.1 million. Once again, the majority of sales growth – 19 % – was generated organically in 2016 and above all in Germany. Sales increased in all of adesso’s core sectors.

As co-organiser and main sponsor of the Bitkom “Design meets IT” event to be held at “Dortmunder U”, a centre for the arts and creativity in Dortmund, adesso AG will invite visitors to the occasion on 4 May. It will focus on the question of how the IT industry, and above all modern software development, can learn from the field of design. The event is free.

The IT service provider adesso AG is expanding the business scope of its subsidiary adesso hosting services GmbH and giving it a new name: from 1 April 2017, the company will provide comprehensive hosting, application management, and managed services from a single sources, and will be renamed adesso as a service GmbH.

adesso AG is developing a comprehensive IT solution for the long-term care of patients with depression within the scope of the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education’s (BMBF) research project STEADY. It aims to identify when afflicted patients are heading towards a depressive episode early on, on the basis of pertinent indicators, which are recorded and analysed using sensors in the patient’s environment. adesso is working on this project together with the German Foundation for Depression Relief (Stiftung Deutsche Depressionshilfe) and Leipzig University.

More than 200 adesso AG employees kept themselves healthy and did something for a good cause at the same time by taking part in a number of company runs last year. The IT service provider made a fixed donation for every employee who came to the starting line, resulting in a total of EUR 5,000 being raised for Clean Winners e.V., a not-for-profit organisation that can use the donation to expand its sports education activities.

adesso introduces talented IT students to the world of real-life projects

The IT service provider adesso AG has developed a new format for recruiting new talent: the rotating internship for students. The first graduates presented the results of their internship to adesso CEO Michael Kenfenheuer, their supervising mentors, their professors and members of the press today in Munich.

IT service provider adesso AG will be presenting its integrated portfolio for the digital transformation of the energy sector at E-world energy & water 2017, which is taking place in Essen from 7 to 9 February 2017. Energy providers will learn how they can secure competitive advantages through digitalisation

adesso AG has successfully completed the Trinity Live project for the Society for Musical Performing and Mechanical Reproduction Rights GEMA (Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte). A complex software solution was developed over a period of twelve months. It enables GEMA to efficiently allocate and evaluate musical works that have been performed and to distribute the revenue collected from live events to the authors entitled to royalties.

As part of a group-wide plan to modernise its inventory control system for life insurance, Generali in Germany has decided in favour of using PSLife from the adesso in|sure product family. The first group company to use the software for mapping new business will be AachenMünchener Lebensversicherung AG.

adesso AG is pooling its in|sure product family insurance portfolio at its subsidiary adesso insurance solutions GmbH. An agreement was signed yesterday on the merger of subsidiary PSLife Consulting GmbH with adesso insurance solutions GmbH. All PSLife Consulting GmbH employees will work at adesso insurance solutions GmbH in future. The former managing director of PSLife Consulting, Harald Narloch, will join the management team of adesso insurance solutions GmbH (ais).