| Type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Information technology |
| Founded | Norway 1972 |
| Founder(s) | Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration |
| Headquarters | Oslo, Norway |
| Area served | Nordic Region |
| Key people | Terje Mjøs (CEO) Dag Mejdell (Chairman) |
| Services | Consulting Solutions IT operations |
| Revenue | NOK 5,7 billion (2008) |
| Employees | 3,750 (2009) |
| Parent | Posten Norge |
| Website | www.ergogroup.no |
ErgoGroup is a Nordic information technology corporation, systems integrator and consulting company headquartered in Oslo, Norway. The company operates within IT operations, business solutions, outsourcing, infrastructure and consulting. ErgoGroup has a total of 90 offices and regional branches throughout Norway, Sweden and Finland, and is a subsidiary of Posten Norge, the Norwegian Postal Service. It is the second largest ICT operations company in Norway.[1] The company also holds partial ownership in SYSteam, TransWare, Gecko, Eiendomsverdi, Buypass, Eye-Share and Bekk Consulting.
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ErgoGroup has 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 contracts aimed at the key account market. This business area also has responsibility for ErgoGroup's communications services, and develops basic operating solutions that are used by all of ErgoGroup's business areas. Other areas covered by IT Operations are Cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS), network solutions, virtualization, security and IT surveillance.
The second business area, Solutions, delivers software solutions, services and business sector solutions that streamline selected work processes within the public and private sectors. Examples of areas of specialisation are: 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 covers ErgoGroup's smaller businesses and businesses outside the main cities and regional centres. This area covers IT infrastructure, electronic collaboration, Unified Communications, portals, Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, mobile solutions, service oriented architecture (SOA) and IT infrastructure library.
In 2007 ErgoGroup bought Bekk Consulting, a Norwegian consultancy company in which ErgoGroup now has 75 per cent ownership shares and options to purchase the remaining 25 per cent within three years. Bekk Consulting supplies 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.
The company was founded as the government agency Statens Driftssentral for administrativ databehandling in 1972 to perform operational services related to IT operation. In 1985 it was made a limited company 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. The present name was given in 2001. In 2005 the company bought the outsourcing 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.[2][3]
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 owned EDB Business Partner has announced it is in strategic discussions with ErgoGroup, which may lead to a merger between Norway's two biggest IT companies.[4]
The announcement of merging between EDB Business Partner and ErgoGroup was official by June 7th 2010[5]
IT-tinget is an annual IT conference held in Tønsberg, Norway. ErgoGroup is the organiser of the event, which draws approximately 600 participants each year. The conference covers topics such as strategy and IT investment, collaboration, mobility, business development and digitalization of public and private sector. The conference lasts two days.