ErgoGroup was a
Nordic information technology
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corporation, systems integrator and consulting company headquartered in
Oslo
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,
Norway
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. The company provided services for
IT operations, business solutions,
outsourcing
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,
infrastructure
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and
consulting
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. ErgoGroup had a total of 90 offices and regional branches throughout
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
,
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
and
Finland
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, and was a subsidiary of
Posten Norge
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, the Norwegian Postal Service. It was the second largest ICT operations company in Norway. The company also held partial ownership in SYSteam, TransWare, Gecko, Eiendomsverdi, Buypass, Eye-Share and Bekk Consulting. ErgoGroup merged with
EDB Business Partner in 2010, creating
EVRY.
Organisation and services
ErgoGroup organised its services in Norway into five business areas: IT Operations, Solutions, Regional Services, the Nordic countries, Nordic Region and Bekk Consulting. IT Operations work primarily with
outsourcing
Outsourcing is a business practice in which companies use external providers to carry out business processes that would otherwise be handled internally. Outsourcing sometimes involves transferring employees and assets from one firm to another ...
contracts aimed at the key account market. This business area also had responsibility for ErgoGroup's communications services, and developed basic operating solutions that were used by all of ErgoGroup's business areas. Other areas covered by IT Operations were
cloud computing
Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to International Organization for ...
and
software as a service
Software as a service (SaaS ) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all needed physical and software resources. SaaS is usually accessed via a web application. Unlike o ...
(SaaS), network solutions, virtualisation, security and IT surveillance.
The second business area, Solutions, delivered software, services and business sector solutions that streamlined selected work processes within the public and private sectors. Examples of areas of specialisation were: finance and corporate performance management, portal, case and document handling, business consultancy and process optimisation, development, architecture and integration, electronic transactions, and information databases.
Regional Services covered ErgoGroup's smaller businesses and businesses outside the main cities and regional centres. This area covered IT infrastructure, electronic collaboration, unified communications, portals,
enterprise content management
Enterprise content management (ECM) extends the concept of content management by adding a timeline for each content item and, possibly, enforcing processes for its creation, approval, and distribution. Systems using ECM generally provide a secur ...
,
enterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the integrated management of main business processes, often in real time and mediated by software and technology. ERP is usually referred to as a category of business management software—typically a suit ...
, customer relationship management, mobile solutions,
service-oriented architecture
In software engineering, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that focuses on discrete services instead of a monolithic design. SOA is a good choice for system integration. By consequence, it is also applied in the field ...
(SOA) and IT infrastructure library.
In 2007, ErgoGroup bought Bekk Consulting, a Norwegian
consultancy company in which ErgoGroup then had 75 per cent ownership shares and options to purchase the remaining 25 per cent within three years. Bekk Consulting supplied consultancy, development and management services in the following areas: process and organisational development, modernisation of professional systems, portal and self-service solutions and customised business applications.
History
The company was founded as the
government agency
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Statens Driftssentral for administrativ databehandling in 1972, to perform operational services related to IT operation. In 1985, it was made a
limited company
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and renamed Statens Datasentral AS, owned by the
Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration. It bought
TF Data in 1989,
Oslo Data in 1991 and
Statdata in 1993. The postal service bought the company in 1995, changing its name to Posten SDS. It was renamed to Ergogroup in 2001. In 2005, the company bought the
outsourcing
Outsourcing is a business practice in which companies use external providers to carry out business processes that would otherwise be handled internally. Outsourcing sometimes involves transferring employees and assets from one firm to another ...
division of Ementor and in 2006
Nor-Cargo Data,
AddIQ,
Fujitsu Services Norway,
SYSteam (at NOK 1.1 billion) and Allianse (at NOK 900 million). In 2007, it bought 75 per cent of Bekk Consulting.
Due to an increased customer base and enhanced value creation, ErgoGroup has experienced a steady and organic growth in recent years. The ICT industry as a whole is in a process of consolidation, due partly to market demands for increased professionalism on the part of suppliers. ErgoGroup has been an active participant in this development and has consolidated its core activities through strategic acquisitions.
In May 2010,
Telenor
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owned
EDB Business Partner, who announced that it was in strategic discussions with ErgoGroup, which later lead to a merger between Norway's two biggest IT companies.
The announcement of merging between EDB Business Partner and ErgoGroup was official by June 7, 2010.
IT-tinget
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ErgoGroup organized an annual two-day Business conference, IT conference called Evry#IT-tinget, IT-tinget. In 2007, there were almost 600 participants at the event, and some of the speakers were the former
Swedish Prime Minister
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Göran Persson
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Persson was first elected to the Swedish Parliame ...
, business guru
Jonas Ridderstråle,
founder Shahzad Rana and former professional alpinist and Olympic champion
Kjetil André Aamodt
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Biography
Born ...
.
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