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On 30 November 2022, OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT to the general public. The premiere sent waves through business and society at large. Twelve months later, the IT service provider adesso asked how companies were using the application. For many users, ChatGPT has become a reliable helper in their everyday lives. Still, a clear majority would like to see a German counterpart.

adesso, one of the leading IT service providers, continues its international expansion with a new delivery center at Kochi in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala. With this second location in India, the adesso Group increases its attractiveness as a global partner for digitalization and significantly strengthens its global delivery and transformation capabilities.

LOTTO Hamburg is turning to adesso to be its partner for social media. adesso is now the digital media agency in charge of the strategy and content behind all social media channels run by Hamburg’s state lottery company. The experts from adesso’s Digital Experience (DX) division, who specialise in online marketing, branding and social media, made a convincing pitch, earning them a four-year contract with the client.

Open-source software is used in a large number of development projects and can be found in almost all software products. According to Bitkom’s Open Source Monitor 2021, 87 % of all large German companies consciously make use of it in projects and products. However, many developers of open-source projects work on a voluntary basis and make their software available free of charge. While large organisations often have a solid financial foundation to rely on, smaller newcomer projects increasingly lack these resources. As a result, adesso has decided to start supporting them with funding each year.

adesso and software developer BSI Business System Integration AG have agreed to continue their successful partnership, which began back in April 2022. adesso prevailed against numerous high-profile names in a pitch to the Swiss company and has taken over responsibility for implementing a variety of digitalisation projects for BSI’s health business with immediate effect. Statutory and private health insurers should benefit from the joint offering moving forward.

Nancy Faeser, German Federal Minister of the Interior and Community, visited adesso at the Smart Country Convention in Berlin. The minister took the opportunity to learn about the IT service provider’s activities in the area of digital identities. In 2024, adesso plans to launch a new eID service on the market that complements the BundID account offered by the government.

adesso has once again succeeded in defending its readers’ choice title at the IT-Awards 2023. For the third time in a row, the IT service provider took first place in the Big Data Consulting category at the BigData-Insider Award. adesso is absolutely delighted to receive this latest accolade, which reflects its continuing expertise in the data and analytics segment – a business area that has a key role to play, especially in view of the developments surrounding generative AI.

Analysts, institutions, vendors and IT service providers are falling over themselves to forecast the impact of generative artificial intelligence applications such as ChatGPT. Not a day goes by that the new technology doesn’t hit the headlines. One day the news might focus on the transformation of certain professions and industries, another day the subject matter might be far-reaching changes to the entire economy. What people often forget is that looking into a crystal ball isn’t an ideal way for businesses to determine their next course of action.

Organisations have a tendency to develop a mind of their own, as can be seen in phrases such as “it’s always been that way,” “it just happened like that” or the classic “we’ve always done things that way”. But why have things always been done a certain way? The truth is, no-one really knows any more. Every day, managers make decisions that lead to the creation of particular structures and process, which, in turn, set the course for businesses to follow. Conventions, standards and routines are the result. Everyone feels at home in this comfort zone, where some things simply take care of themselves. After all, “it’s always been that way”.

Changes in the adesso SE Executive Board: Mark Lohweber will become the new CEO at the beginning of 2024, taking over from Michael Kenfenheuer, who will leave the Executive Board by the end of 2023. In addition, Dirk Pothen will end his Executive Board contract early for personal reasons as of December 31, 2023.