As the demand of digitalization continues to rise among Nordic organizations, so does the need for a partner who can take on complex and innovative projects. A year after entering Finland, Advania strengthens its presence in the region to add more value to customers operating on the Finnish market.

Advania Norway has sold the business solutions part of the operation to Columbus; a Danish listed IT services and business applications company (OMX: COLUM). Hence, Advania Norway will focus on IT infrastructure services, Contact Centre solutions and strengthening its position as an independent software vendor for the real-estate market.

To support a sustainable supply chain in the IT industry, Advania has become a member of the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA). The whole company will now implement the RBA code of conduct for suppliers, and is one of the few Nordic organizations that are regular members of the organization.

Advania would like to thank the many guests that met us at our Fall Conference in Reykjavik. Almost 40 speakers shared their thoughts on the opportunities and challenges that IT brings to all parts of society.

With the acquisition of Itello, Advania takes a strong position in the IT infrastructure market in Norway - in one year the turnover goes from NOK 0 to 600 million. All 19 Itello employees will continue at Advania. Personal, experienced and dedicated customer contact is main priority as the companies now merges.

In line with Advania signing the UN Global Compact's 10 principles, the Advania Group continues its work on a better future with the concept Sustainable offers, initially focusing on the Swedish market. The initiative aims to take a more comprehensive approach to involve and facilitate the customers' environmental and sustainability work.

Ben Hammersley, Duena Blomstrom, Björn Zoëga, Patricia Florissi, Hilmar Veigar Pétursson will be the keynote speakers at the 2019 Advania Fall Conference.

After a very careful procurement, it is now clear that Advania Sweden has won the confidence to deliver IT services to ONE Nordic. The collaboration agreement between the parties runs for four years.

Advania Sweden is the new IT supplier for the school and treatment group Magelungen. Through collaboration with Advania, Magelungen wants to streamline their way of working, simplify and improve IT support for students and staff, and gain a better oversight of the IT environment.

The Advania Fall Conference 2019 is looking to be bigger then ever before. The conference is the longest running annual tech conference in Europe and will be held for the 25th consecutive time on September 13th 2019. Save the date!

Using the same contact-centre platform across Europe has enabled the credit management firm Intrum to optimise its day-to-day operations. The aim is to outsource the operation and development of the platform so as to be able to deliver a better customer experience.

Advania Skolepartner is the only company in Norway to have entered into a cooperation agreement with Challenging Learning. In Sweden, a similar cooperation is already established. "We like to work with people who have their mission at the heart, rather than their margins. Like us, Advania Skolepartner brings something different. Together, we are striving to create something new in the field of learning,” says James Nottingham, world-renowned educator and founder of Challenging Learning.  

HP’s leading Swedish partner – that’s what Advania Sweden can call themselves after having received the prize as Partner of the Year at HP’s annual conference in Houston. Behind the nomination is, among other things, a growth of over 50 percent in both PC and print.

On April 1st the Finnish IT & Digital Service provider Vintor will formally become Advania Finland. Changing the company identity and name is the final step in integrating Vintor into Advania Group, which acquired all Vintor Oy shares in early January.  Advania Finlands will extend its predecessors offering with a new IT service approach, platforms, cloud solutions and support to the Finnish market.

Out of 100 businesses in the 50-199 employee’s category, Advania Norway was named the 13th best workplace in Norway. Employees who feel visible and listened to, have a strong sense of community and pride in their work, is what characterises highly rated companies.

A unique digital customer journey in automated delivery of cloud services. That’s how Advania Marketplace was described recently, when it was awarded the prize for best Scale Partner Europe from global IT-distributor, Ingram Micro.

Being an Eco-lighthouse involves systematic work on environmental efforts in everyday life. As a certified Eco-lighthouse, Advania meets requirements and implements efforts for a more eco-friendly operation and a healthy workplace environment.

Advania and 50skills partner to accelerate a more modern approach to hiring and onboarding employees.

The United Nations Global Compact is a corporate sustainability initiative for businesses and other organisations. Advania is now taking the next step towards Group-wide sustainability by joining the Global Compact.

Advania closed the company’s traditional retail outlet in Reykjavík one year ago and diverted its full focus on digital sales. This has resulted in an 82% increase in turnover for the company’s online shop and an increase in total sales of hardware of 22%.

Advania has received honors from Microsoft Iceland for outstanding collaboration. The award marks the second year in a row Advania has been named Partner of the Year. Advania Marketplace also received a special award from Microsoft.

Nordic IT service provider Advania has acquired a Finnish company Vintor that offers specialized digital customer engagement solutions. The acquisition strenghtens Advania‘s presence in the Nordics and marks the company‘s entry into the Finnish market.

Accigo, major provider of business and operational development, where Microsoft Dynamics 365 plays an important role, has chosen PMAx365 from Advania for the Swedish property market.

The law firm Hjort modernizes and digitizes their own processes. The company's 90 lawyers will operate independently of time, place and physical documents. As the first major law firm in Norway, Hjort has chosen Advania Legal 365.

Since 2011, Radar conducts a large survey of customer-driven values and quality each year. This year's survey involved around 1,000 Swedish operations in assessing its IT suppliers. This is Sweden's largest quantitative survey with IT decision makers regarding delivered customer satisfaction.

Advania became one of Atlassian's Swedish Solution Partners in the spring of 2018. As of October 2018, Advania is a Silver Solution Partner to the Australian software company with products like Jira, Confluence and Jira Service Desk in its portfolio.

Advania in Iceland has become a sponsor of Vertonet, a stakeholder association of women in IT. The collaboration is intended to increase the proportion of women working in technology.

The property management solution PMAx is now accessible in AppSource, Microsoft's international market for specialised solutions. PMAx is the first solution that Advania registers in AppSource.

Advania is certified for the fourth year in a row.

The electronic voting system that Advania has developed in co-operation with the Icelandic Confederation of Labour (ASÍ) has saved millions of Icelandic króna and significantly increased democracy within the Confederation. 

Advania has been selected to design and build a new online service for the Icelandic Directorate of Labour. This new service is intended to save the unemployed time and effort, expedite the processing of unemployment benefits and minimise time-consuming paperwork for staff.

When the credit management firm Lowell decided to expand into the Nordic countries, it opted to use Pure Connect as its contact centre platform.

Advania’s Marketplace named best ecosystem for cloud services in the EMEA region at CloudBlue Connect 2018 in Munich.

Advania wins EMEA overall Channel Partner of the Year award at the eleventh Canalys Channels Forum EMEA.

Advania Norge is now entering the market with a broader range of services, software and hardware. The initiative is kicking off with the acquisition of the online store Stepper. Further growth will take place organically and through other acquisitions.

Advania has acquired Wise, an Icelandic IT company that currently employs around 80 specialists in software development, consultation and services. The acquisition is subject to conformation from the Icelandic Competion Authority. Wise was previously owned by the Norwegian AKVA Group.

30% stake in Advania AB sold to VIA equity, a Northern European equity fund, and PFA, the largest commercial pension company in Denmark.

Tim Urban from Wait But Why, Tiffani Bova from Salesforce and Ingibjörg Þórðardóttir from CNN will be among the keynote speakers at the 2018 Advania Fall Conference in Reykjavík.

The positive reaction shown by consumers to new self-checkout solutions in grocery stores in Iceland resulted in Advania receiving the NCR Innovation Award.

In two years, Advania Sweden has reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 29 percent per employee. Behind the change is super-green cars, reduced travel, and energy-efficient offices.

Nexthink, a leader in digital employee experience management software for enterprises, and Advania, announces a new partnership that will create customer value. More specifically, to help IT departments proactively prevent the creation of incidents, focusing on high-quality service delivery, compliance and digital transformation projects.

Herrljunga and Vårgårda Municipality choose Advania as a strategic partner. It is an important part of the consolidation and digital development in both municipalities. Recently, the well-known energy company Trollhättan Energi AB within the same region, also made partnership with Advania for their sustainable digitalization and development.

Advania Managed Services launches a new international service - Marketplace as a Service. The service is unique and enables sales, handling and invoicing of everything as a service through a one portal. This allows your customers to access more than a thousand cloud services from the international distributor Ingram Micro, while adding your own cloud services as well as other distributors and suppliers’ assortment to your portal.

Microsoft selected Advania as its 2018 Partner of the Year in Iceland. Advania is pleased that its customers will enjoy the benefits of the company’s excellent collaboration with Microsoft.

Advania in Iceland has taken over the operation and hosting of the information systems for Ölgerðin, one of the largest beverage companies in Iceland. The company is one of Iceland’s largest wholesalers, producing products for Pepsi-Cola and Carlsberg. 

Advania and the research and knowledge company Matís plan to strengthen transactions with Icelandic agricultural products by means of a solution based on blockchain technology. The solution will promote traceability so that consumers are aware of the origin and travel of the product.

Sundbyberg stad in Sweden, has chosen to procure IT workplaces and AV equipment from Advania Sverige AB. Further, Advania will also provide all schools in the city with educational tools for digital learning.

Advania won the procurement to create a new modern IT infrastructure for Trollhättan Energi AB.

Solid growth across all markets and a significant increase in profits and revenues in 2017

It has become more difficult for children to access dubious websites on Reykjavik City networks since more powerful security measures were installed in co-operation with Advania a year ago. Reykjavik City’s networks are now much better protected than they were before, and notifications of viruses and malware on the equipment of users have fallen significantly.

As a financial institution, the debt recovery company Intrum Justitia is subject to strict data management, security and confidentiality requirements. The company was equally determined to purchase the market's most modern Contact Center platform. They decided to choose PureCloud® provided by Advania Norway.  

Today Advania Sweden´s CEO Tomas Wanselius signed the agreement with Vaxholm City to provide all administrative personnel and municipal schools, with IT equipment and education for digital learning, as well as streamlining daily work.

Grand slam for Advania at the industry’s prestigious Cloud Summit event in Florida, where Advania, together with Ingram Micro, launched the first European Marketplace with loT as a Service and received the; Cloud Partner Award, Marketplace Partner Europe.

Advania is now a sponsor for the Football Association of Iceland and will be supporting the Iceland national team at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

The ongoing three-day conference in Dublin, Ireland focuses on Dynamics 365, AX and CRM. Advania is on location representing our strategic value offer for property management: PMAx 365.  

Cloud is on everyone’s lips. Nevertheless, as most companies concentrate on making their operating center cloud based, A Bygg has taken a bigger leap.

The web development team for Advania Iceland is currently involved in the biggest number of large scale e-commerce projects it has ever seen.

Advania Skolpartner, part of Advania Sweden AB, signs a new agreement with Kunskapsskolan. Advania shall provide IT-operations, management and support for all the primary and lower secondary schools, upper secondary schools and adult education at Kunskapsskolan. A strategically important partnership for Advania, which lands a further important agreement in the field of education and this time with focus on managerial services.

The Icelandic government has passed legislation aimed at eliminating gender based wage difference. The legislation is unique and has received much attention globally. Advania has developed a software solution to facilitate compliance with the law, helping to eliminate the gender based difference in wages.

Kammarkollegiet has approved a transfer of the framework agreements from Misco AB to Advania Sverige AB. The agreements are nationwide regarding clients, as well as user-friendly IT products and services. This means that Advania further strengthens its position in the public sector.

Caperio AB, part of Advania Sweden, today signs a significant agreement with Stockholm stad, for the delivery of digital equipment to all municipal preschools and schools.

Today HackCon kicks off in Oslo. For four days, the security convention will provide expertise for IT-professionals on current and future cyber - and information challenges. Advania Norway play significant roles as speakers.

Scandinavia's market leader in fire protection have selected the cloud based business system Microsoft Dynamics 365 and partnership with the expertise provider Advania.

Advania Sweden is now appointed an authorized primary reseller of business-critical software from VMS Software Inc.

Advania Iceland has seen a rapid growth in the number of employees

Caperio, which is a part of Advania, has signed an important framework agreement with SKL Kommentus Inköpscentral, regarding “software and software cloud services 2016”. The framework agreement is valued to approximately MSEK 208. It applies for two years initially, with the possibility of another two years extension.

Advania on site with subcontractors in China

Advania Advice offers comprehensive consultancy

Felleskjøpet, the leading supplier of assets for agriculture in Norway, will replace its proprietary business systems with a holistic solution based on Microsoft Dynamics. iStone has been commissioned to deliver the project with assistance from Advania Norway.

Advania is proud to launch the cloud-based business solution PMAx 365, an optimized industry standard for property management. Safe and structured, clients can now administer their property portfolio anywhere, anytime, from PC, tablet and mobile.

Andreas Slånemyr, Partner Manager for Microsoft at Advania, announces that Advania achieved Microsoft Gold Partner status within ten areas of expertise.