Asseco Poland SA is a multinational software company, with clients primarily in the banking and finance industries. It was founded in 1991, and its headquarters are in

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. Asseco is one of the largest corporations in the technology sector quoted on the

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. The current corporation is the result of a 2004 merger between Asset Soft AS and COMP Rzeszów SA. The consolidated revenues of the Asseco Group in 2020 amounted to PLN 12.19 billion, and the net profit amounted to PLN 401.9 million. The operating profit amounted to over PLN 23.8 million.

History

Asseco was founded as COMP Rzeszów in 1991 by Adam Goral. It began as a

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factory, but Goral focused on the development of the manufacturer's

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department, which soon became the center of the business. The company became multinational with the 2004 purchase of the Slocak company Asset Soft, and the company was renamed Asseco. It continued to make acquisitions, purchasing the Polish software companies Softbank and Prokom, and ventured outside of the former

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with a 2010 purchase of the

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software company Formula Systems. It has since expanded to a presence in over 50 countries.

Structure of the company

Asseco Poland SA is headquartered in Rzeszów and

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with offices throughout Poland, and is present in more than 50 countries around the world, with

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, the

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and the

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. The company was ranked sixth in the Truffle 100 ranking of the largest software producers in Europe. Poland: * Asseco Poland S.A. * Asseco Business Solutions S.A. * Asseco Data Systems S.A. * Novum Sp. z o.o. * Postdata S.A. * Gladstone Consulting * SKG S.A. * DahliaMatic Sp. z o.o. Israel: * Matrix * Sapiens * Magic Software Central Europe: * Asseco Central Europe a.s. * Asseco Solutions a.s. * Asseco Central Europe Magyarorszag Zrt. * Asseco Hungary Zrt. * DanubePay, a. s. * Asseco Solutions AG * InterWay, a. s. * exe, a. s. * eDocu, a. s. * Asseco BERIT South Eastern Europe: * Asseco South Eastern Europe S.A. (Asseco SEE Grupa) * Asseco SEE d.o.o., Bosnia and Herzegovina * Asseco SEE o.o.d., Bulgaria * Asseco SEE d.o.o., Croatia * Asseco SEE Sh.p.k., Kosovo * Asseco SEE d.o.o.e.l., Macedonia * Asseco SEE d.o.o., Montenegro * Asseco SEE s.r.l., Romania * Asseco SEE d.o.o., Serbia * Asseco SEE d.o.o., Slovenia * Asseco SEE Teknoloji A.Ş., Turkey Western Europe: * Asseco Spain SA * Necomplus, S.L. * Asseco PST Northern Europe: * Asseco Denmark A/S * Peak Consulting Group * Sintagma, UAB * Asseco Lietuva, UAB * CodeConnexion

References

External links

Asseco Poland Official Website

Asseco Group Official Website
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History

Structure of the company

See also

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