Dedagroup Public Services (DEDA) is part of Dedagroup S.p.A., one of the largest Information Technology groups backed by Italian capital. The Group with a turnover of € 253 million and more than 1,900 employees, is an important aggregating hub of leading Italian firms in the Software and Solutions as a Service market, and a natural reference of businesses, financial and public service institutions in the development of their IT and digital strategies.
Since its foundation in 2000, the Group has grown consistently and today, in addition to having more than 20 offices in Italy, it also operates in Switzerland, France, Germany, the UK, the USA, Mexico, and China. With headquarters in Trento, it supports over 3,600 clients worldwide through its offices.
The public sector – in the broad sense of all levels of national and local structures within the Public Administration, and public service organizations (energy and utilities, healthcare, transport, postal) – is the third market of the group, with a mix of software, management, documentary, and geographical solutions, and design and process competencies, particularly in the areas of digital processes, archiving analytics and data management. DEDA works with municipalities – small and large -, Regions and Ministries.
The daily commitment of DEDA
Dedagroup Public Services’ daily commitment is to support public administrations in their journey towards digitalization. The goal is to aid cities in becoming local development centers, central institutions in creating a data-driven administration, and companies in developing their networks and innovating their processes. The cloud, transparency, redesigned administrative procedures, and data management are the key elements of Dedagroup Public Services’ range of products and services.
The Research & Development team collaborates with the ecosystem of research centers (Bruno Keller Foundation – Lead partner of the Interlink project; Edmund Mach Foundation; Cineca), Universities (the University of Bologna, the University of Trento), innovation hubs (Innovation Hub Trento, Agency for Energy and Sustainability – AESS), start-up and players in the IT sector.
Finding a spot on the european innovation ecosystem
DEDA is a partner of EIT Climate-KIC and is involved in several projects focused on behavioral change, sustainable mobility, circular economy, smart energy, meteo data, big data, and HPC analysis, IoT, air quality, open data. Since 2017 DEDA and FBK are working together in the Co-Innovation Lab and in different Climate KIC and H2020 projects. The main output of the Co-Innovation Lab is the Digital Hub, which DEDA and FBK will bring to the project. DEDA is a Day-1 member of the GAIA-X initiatives that federated data infrastructure for Europe.
