adesso, a Swiss consulting and IT service provider, announced that it has set up a new Nordics subsidiary in Finland ahead of its expansion into the Northern European countries.

The firm plans to expand its footprint to Scandinavia and the Baltic States beginning in Finland.

adesso Nordics focuses initially on the core industries of banking and insurance as well as manufacturing industry, automotive and lottery in Northern Europe.

In addition, adesso Nordics brings the German experience, skills and capacity for SAP S/4HANA transformations available to the Nordic markets. The market is expected to transfer towards the new version of SAP ERP solution during the next few years.

adesso is also partnering with the Finnish data service and IT company 1001 Lakes Oy in order to position adesso Nordics Oy strongly with attractive capabilities and portfolio in data and analytics and data economies, data sharing and monetisation of data.

Moreover, both entities are partnering to establish adesso Lakes GmbH to bring these services to Central European customers and market.

The new subsidiary adesso Nordics in Finland is already the eighth foreign subsidiary of adesso in Europe following that in Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey (Istanbul).

Ari Torpo will lead adesso Nordics Oy as Managing Director. Torpo is internationally experienced consultant and business development leader who brings not only his network but also many years of experience in ERP transformations. He was formerly the Managing Director at Accenture Nordics from 2006 to 2020.

“Digitalisation will continue to sweep society and change entire industries and will require seasoned leaders who can develop businesses, new sales, open new markets and scale up businesses,”

said Torpo.

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