adesso BLOG
15.12.2022 By Yelle Lieder
Life cycle assessment software – why an electricity meter is not enough
Sustainability is the megatrend of our time, and measures to increase sustainability are the talk of the town. However, in order to make improvements and evaluate them correctly, we first need to know where we stand. Unfortunately, when it comes to sustainability, there is still a bit of uncertainty and far too often greenwashing is employed. Therefore in this blog post, we will take a look at what we know about evaluating digital sustainability and where there are still uncertainties.
Read more14.12.2022 By Niklas Bug and Alexander Frommelt
Smart Claims – sustainable claims handling with a future
The idea of a sustainable insurance product impressed more than 4,000 people and consequently won first place at adesso’s Think!2022 competition. Smart Claims is a newly conceived digital product for future-oriented and sustainable claims settlement in the insurance industry. Keep reading to find out how it works, what the benefits are and who can use it.
Read more12.12.2022 By Tim Strohschneider
Artificial intelligence continues to gain ground
The demand for innovative AI-based transformer models is hard to ignore. Great advancements in development have been made in recent years, especially in areas such as machine translation and speech and text recognition. This blog post will describe how transformer technologies are used in language models.
Read more09.12.2022 By Stephen Lorenzen, Lars Zimmermann and Maximilian Hammes
Does the price cap for electricity endanger the energy transition?
The German Government is using the price cap for electricity as part of the €300 billion economic ‘defence shield’ in an attempt to cushion the rising costs for consumers in Germany. This blog post will describe what the price cap is, how the financing is supposed to work and whether it entails as many benefits as promised.
Read more08.12.2022 By Samira Hamm and Selinay Kalkan
adesso Cares About Health (CarAH) – the exchange project’s successful start
Improve healthcare systems and promote international cooperation with adesso expertise and IT know-how: this is the goal of the CarAH Project initiated by adesso and the Tokoloho Foundation day hospital in South Africa. This blog post will explain what the project is all about and how it works. It will also give insights into the international team’s collaboration thus far.
Read more07.12.2022 By Valerie Thülig and Jochen Benini
So near and yet so far – how to ensure successful cooperation in offshoring
It sounds so wonderfully simple: you recruit a team of employees through an offshore partner in India and get the same level of performance for a fraction of what you would have to spend on an in-house project. But why does this often not work? This blog post will explain the key challenges and the solutions to them.
Read more06.12.2022 By Madelaine de Nève and Janina Radschibajev
Why a company’s presence in social networks is not a ‘can’, but rather a ‘must’
Employer attractiveness is playing an increasingly important role in the battle for the best talents. Apathetically listing your company’s benefits is no longer a sufficient means of making yourself stand out. The goal is to reach out to new talents before they begin searching for a specific job. This blog post will explain how social media can help with recruiting.
Read more05.12.2022 By Simon Bächle, Ellen Szczepaniak and Zoe Holdt
Virtual power plants 2.0
A virtual power plant is an association of decentralised units that are coordinated via a common control system. The purpose of a virtual power plant is to sell the electricity and flexibility provided by the large network of aggregated installations through a single source. This blog post will explain where this idea originated and how it can be used in the energy transition.
Read more01.12.2022 By Nehir Safak-Turhan
The many faces of sustainability – a general look at the UN Sustainable Development Goals
In this blog post, I would like to go beyond industry specifics and take a general look at the topic of sustainability based on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. With its Global Sustainability Agenda, the United Nations defines the elementary foundations and provides guidance for the sustainable development of society, politics and the economy.
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