EDB Business Partner

EDB Business Partner ASA, trading as EDB (Norwegian: Elektronisk Databehandling) was a Norwegian information technology company that supplied many services relating to computing, including operation, outsourcing and online banking. The company was headquartered in Oslo and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Telenor owned 51.3% of EDB. EDB BP has wholly owned subsidiaries in Sweden and Denmark, and more recently acquired the majority of Miratech and Infopulse, which are Ukrainian IT companies.

EDB Business Partner ASA
EDB
TypePublic
(OSE: EDBASA)
IndustryInformation technology
DefunctOctober 2010 (2010-October)
FateMerged with ErgoGroup AS[1]
SuccessorEDB ErgoGroup ASA[2]
Headquarters
Oslo
,
Norway
Area served
Nordic countries
Key people
as at 2010
Websiteedb.com

EDB Business Partner was a full owner in the companies Fellesdata AS (acquired 2001), Avenir AS, EDB Telecom AS, Spring Consulting AS, PDS AS and TAG Systems AS. On 8 January 2008, an agreement was entered into with StatoilHydro that the company would purchase IS Partner, which was previously under Hydro under the name Hydro IS Partner.

In June 2010, EDB announced a merger with ErgoGroup, another big IT company in Norway.[3][4] As of October 2010,[5] the newly merged company was called EDB ErgoGroup, which in March 2012, took the name Evry.[6][7]

The company made headlines in several major newspapers in Sweden in March 2009, when a consultant hired through a recruitment company was fired because he, outside work, had expressed political views belonging to the Pirate Party in a public chat interview organized by the newspaper Nerikes Allehanda.[8][9][10][11]

References
  1. "Combining EDB and ErgoGroup to create a Nordic IT champion". Posten Norge AS. 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
  2. "Facts and Figures October 2010". Oslo Børs ASA. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
  3. "EDB and ErgoGroup announce merger". ErgoGroup. Archived from the original on 2012-03-11. Retrieved 2010-11-02.
  4. Rossen, Eirik (2010-06-07). "Ergogroup og EDB slår seg sammen". Digi.no. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  5. "EDB ErgoGroup-fusjonen gjennomføres". e24.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  6. "Norway's largest IT company changes its name to EVRY". EVRY. Archived from the original on 2012-05-05. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
  7. "Her er Norges største it-selskap". e24.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  8. "Jonas fick sluta på grund av sin åsikt". na.se. Nerikes Allehanda. Archived from the original on March 13, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
  9. "IT-företag vill inte ha piratpartist". nyheter24.se. Nyheter24. Retrieved 2009-03-09."Piratpartist får sparken: Bloggvärldens reaktioner". nyheter24.se. Nyheter24. Archived from the original on 2012-07-12. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
  10. "Piratpartist blev av med jobbet efter chat". expressen.se. AB Kvällstidningen Expressen. Archived from the original on 2009-03-10. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
  11. "Piratpartist inte välkommen till sitt arbete som konsult". svd.se. Svenska Dagbladet. Retrieved 2009-03-09.


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