ErgoGroup was a
Nordic information technology
Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (I ...
corporation, systems integrator and consulting company headquartered in
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
,
Norway
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. The company provided services for
IT operations
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Historically, ''data center management'' w ...
, business solutions,
outsourcing
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,
infrastructure
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and
consulting
A consultant (from la, consultare "to deliberate") is a professional (also known as ''expert'', ''specialist'', see variations of meaning below) who provides advice and other purposeful activities in an area of specialization.
Consulting servic ...
. ErgoGroup had a total of 90 offices and regional branches throughout
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
,
Sweden
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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
EDB Business Partner ASA, trading as EDB ( no, Elektronisk Databehandling) was a Norway, Norwegian information technology company that supplied many services relating to computing, including operation, outsourcing and online banking. The company w ...
in 2010, creating
EVRY
EVRY A/S was a Norwegian information technology company that supplies services relating to computing, including operation, outsourcing, and online banking. The company is headquartered in Oslo. It was established through a merger between EDB Bus ...
.
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
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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
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and
software as a service
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SaaS is con ...
(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
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,
enterprise resource planning
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, Customer Relationship Management, mobile solutions,
service-oriented architecture
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(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
A government or state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an administrati ...
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
The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs (FAD) ( no, Fornyings-, administrasjons- og kirkedepartementet) was a Norwegian ministry.
It was established as the Ministry of Government Administration and Refo ...
. 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 an agreement in which one company hires another company to be responsible for a planned or existing activity which otherwise is or could be carried out internally, i.e. in-house, and sometimes involves transferring employees and ...
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
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 worldwide, ...
owned
EDB Business Partner
EDB Business Partner ASA, trading as EDB ( no, Elektronisk Databehandling) was a Norway, Norwegian information technology company that supplied many services relating to computing, including operation, outsourcing and online banking. The company w ...
, 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 Parlia ...
, business guru
Jonas Ridderstråle,
founder Shahzad Rana and former professional alpinist and Olympic champion
Kjetil André Aamodt
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Biography
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