EVRY A/S was a
Norwegian information technology
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company that supplied services relating to computing, including operation,
outsourcing
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and
online banking
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. The company was headquartered in
Oslo
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. It was established through a merger between
EDB Business Partner and
ErgoGroup in 2010 and had 10,000 employees at 135 offices in 16 countries.
In June 2019,
Tieto
Tietoevry Corporation (natively Tietoevry Oyj, Tieto prior to June 2019) is a Finnish IT software and service company providing IT and product engineering services. Tietoevry is domiciled in Espoo, Finland, and the company's shares are listed o ...
paid
EUR
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1.2 billion for the acquisition of EVRY. The new company was named
TietoEVRY and had over 24,000 employees.
History
EDB ErgoGroup ASA was formed in 2010 with the merger of EDB Business Partner and ErgoGroup.
Telenor
Telenor ASA ( or ) is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered at Fornebu in Bærum, close to Oslo. It is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies with operations worldwi ...
owned most of the shares of ErgoGroup. The company subsequently changed its name to EVRY ASA in April 2012.
In August 2014, EVRY announced it was initiating a process to investigate strategic opportunities. This was motivated by its assessment of the IT sector in the
Nordic countries
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. In March 2015,
Apax Partners
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became the majority owner of the company, a new board was appointed, and it decided to apply for a delisting from the stock exchange. On 29 October 2015, the company was delisted from the
Oslo Stock Exchange
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.
In August 2015, following the loss of a contract with the Norwegian bank
DNB, EVRY announced it would lay off 500–550 workers in Norway and
Sweden
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to increase profits, saving
NOK
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Archaeology
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400–500 million (about US$50–60 million). In October 2015, it announced the transfer of 600 employees to
IBM
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in an outsourcing deal worth US$1 billion.
On 13 December 2018,
Handelsbanken
Svenska Handelsbanken AB is a leading Nordic countries, Nordic bank with international operations, providing a comprehensive range of financial services including corporate banking, investment banking, trading, and consumer banking such as loans, ...
and EVRY agreed to deliver next-generation core banking and payment services in Finland. The agreement represents a total contract value of approximately NOK 650 million and runs for eight years.
In 2019, it was announced that EVRY would merge with Tieto. The merged company, TietoEVRY, began operations on 2 January 2020.
EVRY India
EVRY acquired Span Infotech, an
India
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n IT company, which was renamed EVRY India to be coherent with its parent company. EVRY India is a
software services company headquartered in
Bangalore
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and
Chandigarh
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and a provider of
IT and
software product development services to customers based in
North America
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and
Europe
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, operating in banking and financial services, insurance, healthcare, retail and logistics industries.
In 2016, EVRY announced it would double the manpower at its Indian subsidiary, then 600 in
Mohali
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and 1,500 in Bangalore, over three years, investing
INR 1–1.25 billion.
In December 2017, the company opened a new branch in Bangalore at
Global Village Tech Park.
References
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Software companies of Norway
Software companies of Sweden
Companies based in Oslo
Norwegian companies established in 2010
International information technology consulting firms
Multinational companies
Outsourcing companies
Apax Partners companies
Norwegian brands