adesso acquires Italian company WebScience

adesso is acquiring WebScience, an Italian company with around 100 employees and most recent sales of almost EUR 10 million in the past year. The takeover of the thriving software company reinforces adesso’s branch office adesso Italia in Milan, opened in autumn 2021. The WebScience team and its customers in Italy will benefit from the synergies of the adesso Group’s Europe-wide business in the future.

Software developer WebScience was formed in 2000 and has spent more than two decades specialising in agility, application modernisation, cloud migration, cloud-native development and low-code approaches. It currently has a staff of around 100, spread across three sites in Milan in the north of Italy, Lecce in the south of the country and Sofia, Bulgaria. The growth-centric company fits perfectly with the adesso core brand in terms of its management, strategic orientation and cultural identity. It therefore meets the key requirements for the merger, which will cement adesso’s position on the Italian market. Like adesso, WebScience is focused on optimising core business processes for companies in a variety of sectors.

The management of WebScience, comprising the company founders Stefano Mainetti (Chairman), Francesco Micotti (CEO) and Massimo Ficagna (Board Member and CEO of WebScience Bulgaria), will take over the management of adesso Italia in the future. Andrea Buzzi, previously Country Manager at adesso Italia and Lugano Site Manager in Switzerland, will become a member of the Management Board of adesso Italia as a representative of the parent company. In this function, Buzzi will oversee the integration of WebScience respectively the still young adesso Italia into the Europe-wide adesso Group. Maintaining the successful business continuity of the vibrant and independent company under adesso stewardship also means retaining WebScience’s presence in Milan at Viale Edoardo Jenner 51 and making this site into the new headquarter for adesso Italia.

For Dirk Pothen, member of the adesso SE Executive Board and Head of Internationalisation, the merger with WebScience is a stroke of luck: “In WebScience, we are integrating a successful and established business in a financially attractive region of Europe. The size of the company alone – it’s one of our largest acquisitions of recent years – will inject significant impetus into our international growth across what is now thirteen European markets. What’s more, I also love the little play on our words with our motto ‘We just do it now!’ Translated into Italian, it includes our company name: ‘adesso, si può fare!’”

Dirk Pothen, Member of the Executive Board of adesso SE, is Head of Internationalization. (Copyright: adesso)

Although the sale of his company to adesso marks the end of an era, WebScience founder Stefano Mainetti also takes great pride in what his team has achieved: “I’m thrilled to see the WebScience core team join such an acclaimed international network as the adesso Group, after more than twenty years of self-sustained development. Evidently, our technological innovation and forward-thinking approach has attracted the attention of adesso to press ahead with its expansion in Italy and take our core business to the next level. We are delighted to receive this recognition and look forward to establishing adesso as the brand for digitalising Italian businesses.”

Francesco Micotti, CEO and co-shareholder of WebScience, adds: “We would like to thank everyone in our team for what we have achieved. Now, as part of the international, growth-oriented adesso Group, our employees can look forward to a promising future, including a wealth of new opportunities for professional development.”

WebScience clients, which include well-known names as Benetton, Sisal and Elior, will now have access to the entire portfolio of the adesso Group, which has firmly established itself as a leading digitalisation partner in numerous industries in German-speaking markets. adesso offers a comprehensive range of advisory and software development services in its core sectors of banking and financial services, public administration, automotive and manufacturing, energy/transport, healthcare/life sciences, trade, media, trade fairs and sport.

The management of WebScience, the company founders Stefano Mainetti (Chairman; center), Francesco Micotti (CEO; left) and Massimo Ficagna (Board Member WebScience/CEO of WebScience Bulgaria; right), will take over the management of adesso Italia. (Copyright: WebScience)

On the subject of adesso Italia, this sport-related news from the adesso Group should certainly pique the interest of the football fans in the WebScience team: adesso has teamed up with FC Internazionale Milano to become Official Women’s Team Partner from the start of the 2022/23 season, increasing brand visibility at one of the leading clubs in the great footballing nation of Italy. What better way is there to celebrate the fusion of WebScience and adesso under the adesso Italia brand than to cheer on the Nerazzurri of Inter Milan together?**

Address:
WebScience S.R.L., or from soon
adesso Italia
Viale Edoardo Jenner 51
20159 MILAN (MI)
Italy
www.adesso.it
info@adesso.it
Phone: +39 02 69773.1

(**Note: adesso has long been an active supporter of football in German-speaking markets as the official IT partner of DFB GmbH (the German football federation), as the main sponsor of the youth and women’s teams of Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and at the Swiss Football Federation.

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