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DATAGROUP Gives Positive Outlook for Current Fiscal Year - Seite 2

Focus on future topics of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud services, and cyber security

In his speech, the CEO addressed the future topics AI, cloud services, and cyber security in detail. DATAGROUP intends to invest EUR 6m in these areas in the current fiscal year and thus lay the foundation for further success and future growth. "The use of artificial intelligence will take our IT services production to a whole new level", says Baresel. "Our service capacities can be significantly expanded without a significant increase in personnel and at minimal marginal costs. We see great growth potential in the area of cyber security, particularly due to the increasing regulatory requirements for companies. The increasing shift of operational and transformation services to the cloud will massively change the depth and structure of value creation in the IT sector: Cloud services will become the dominant operating model and DATAGROUP naturally wants to benefit from this development as well."

Company acquisitions as a further pillar of growth

Inorganic growth through acquisitions will continue to be an important pillar of success in the current fiscal year. In the past fiscal year, DATAGROUP increased its stake in URANO Informationssysteme to 100 % and acquired the assets of arago with the IP rights to the AI technology HIRO in addition to the acquisition of the Ulm-based IT system house systemzwo.

In the current fiscal year, two further acquisitions have already been made with conplus and iT TOTAL and the pipeline of interesting takeover candidates is still well filled. DATAGROUP is systematically exploring the market. The following profiles are particularly attractive: regional system houses on their way to becoming IT service providers; companies that strengthen the CORBOX core business; companies with strong digitization competence as well as IT service providers in the SME target customer market.

Publication of the DATAGROUP Sustainability Report

At the Annual General Meeting, the Management Board also presented the Sustainability Report 2024 to the shareholders. The updated report bundles information on the company's measures in the areas of environment, social commitment, and corporate governance. "We at DATAGROUP are aware of our corporate and social responsibility", says Dr Sabine Laukemann, Board Member for Human Resources, Strategy and Organization. "We therefore attach great importance to sustainability and working in partnership with our customers and employees. We report on this in the current sustainability report. In the current financial year, we are continuing to implement our sustainability strategy project and its practical implementation with the chair of Prof Dr Ebinger at Nuremberg Institute of Technology." On the occasion of the company's 40th anniversary, the DATAGROUP FOREST is one of the projects in the area of ecological commitment, in which a forest of the future is to be planted on a fallow area in the Black Forest together with the customer Forst BW. The plan is to plant 4,000 trees that will be able to cope with the challenges of climate change.