adesso receives €6.5 million order from E.ON: adesso’s FirstSpirit™ software becomes global group’s standard

Dortmund, 04 February 2010 – adesso AG is supporting the international energy group E.ON AG with a comprehensive service package for the relaunch of its worldwide intranet and internet portals. It includes introducing the FirstSpirit™ content management system along with other adesso solutions across the group as well as providing maintenance and support. The goal is to standardise all of the company’s internet and intranet sites on the basis of centralised templates, workflows and publishing processes. These will enable optimal content reusability within the group. adesso is also handling the interface integration to the existing SAP portal to promote efficient data maintenance. This integration will allow content to be fed into the system via CMS. The order’s volume amounts to about €6.5 million including licenses – €3.1 million of which will be received in the first year of the contract. The current contract initially lasts until the end of 2013. At the project level, this represents the largest incoming order in adesso’s history.

E.ON will standardise a total of 60 internet sites for all of its market and business units as well as 60 intranets with the adesso solutions – replacing the existing CMS solutions across the group. As a part of the agreement, adesso will take over application management and offer 24/7 support for users and installations. In addition, CMS content will be adapted and optimised for access from mobile devices with the adesso solution web in|MOTION.

The Executive Board