Dortmund, 15 December 2025 – Effective identity management, including access governance, is a key pillar of any digital sovereignty strategy. It enables organizations to maintain control over digital identities, manage access to systems, data, and applications, ensure compliance, and provide traceability, documentation, and auditability of all activities. However, implementing an effective identity management system remains a major challenge for many companies. The trust-based collaboration between IT service provider adesso and Omada, the European market leader in identity management and access governance solutions, has led to significant gains in efficiency and security across numerous projects – providing a tangible competitive advantage for joint customers. To build on this success, adesso and Omada have agreed to continue their strategic collaboration. adesso has also achieved the highest Omada Partner Level, earning Business Partner status. This gives the IT service provider access to additional resources and expertise, enabling it to offer optimal identity management solutions in projects.
The two partners complement each other’s strengths: adesso brings extensive experience in transformation and compliance projects within regulated industries, along with deep technical, process, and sector expertise. Omada contributes its “Omada Identity” and “Omada Identity Cloud” solutions – recognized by leading analysts as market-leading offerings with a strong European focus. This collaboration targets enterprises and highly regulated organizations, such as those in the public sector and critical infrastructure (KRITIS) across the DACH region, which face the highest requirements in security, compliance, and efficiency.
Identity Management – A Core Competence for Sovereignty
Identities and access rights have evolved into critical control mechanisms for business operations. With growing legal and regulatory requirements, and an increasingly complex threat landscape, the sovereign management of identities has become central to business resilience and capability. Security incidents caused by compromised identities are among the leading causes of successful cyberattacks. According to numerous studies, the number of such cases has increased significantly in recent years.
A sustainable strategy for Identity & Access Management (IAM) and Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) has therefore become indispensable for organizations. adesso and Omada support companies and institutions in developing and embedding such a strategy within their broader sovereignty and IT frameworks. Together, they help implement practical solutions that:
- Increase productivity for internal and external staff by ensuring that necessary access rights are granted from day one and revoked no later than the last working day.
- Minimize risks from orphaned or over-privileged accounts in a sustainable way.
- Accelerate time-to-value for cloud and AI initiatives through a sovereign identity foundation.
“adesso has been an important partner for us for many years. By deepening our strategic collaboration, we aim to leverage our respective strengths even more effectively,” says Michael Garrett, CEO of Omada. “In practice, it has become clear that successful identity management projects require a solid foundation of process and strategic consulting – and continuous alignment with business objectives. With its consulting expertise and deep industry knowledge, adesso is ideally positioned to support us and our customers.”
“Digital sovereignty is increasingly becoming a key success factor. Effective and efficient identity management that provides transparency and control within an organization plays a crucial role,” says Mark Lohweber, CEO of adesso SE. “It is a central lever for security, compliance, resilience, and innovation. Our goal is to shape Europe’s sovereign digital future together with our partners. That includes offering our customers the most powerful solutions available. Strengthening our partnership with Omada is therefore a logical step for us.”
About Omada
Omada, a global market leader in Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), offers a comprehensive, cloud-native IGA solution that enables organizations to achieve compliance, reduce risk, and maximize operational efficiency. Founded in 2000, Omada specializes in delivering innovative identity management solutions for complex hybrid environments, based on a proven best-practice process framework and a streamlined deployment approach.
About adesso
adesso is one of the leading IT service providers in the German-speaking area and focuses its consulting and software development activities on the core business processes of companies and public authorities. adesso’s strategy is based on three pillars: the comprehensive industry-specific know-how of its staff, extensive expertise in technology that is independent of manufacturers and the application of reliable methods in software implementation projects. adesso delivers the right IT solutions to increase the ability of companies and organisations to compete in the core sectors of insurance/reinsurance, banking and financial services, healthcare and life sciences, energy supply, public administration, automotive and manufacturing industry, trade, transport, media, entertainment, lottery and sports.
adesso was founded in Dortmund in 1997 and currently employs more than 11,100 people in the adesso Group (converted to full-time equivalents/FTE), which corresponds to more than 11,800 employees in terms of headcount. adesso’s shares are listed on the Prime Standard/SDAX. Customers in Germany include Commerzbank, BayernLB, Munich Re, Provinzial, Bitmarck, amedes, RWE, E.ON, Mercedes-Benz, thyssenkrupp, Bosch, Otto, Markant, Borussia Dortmund, the Deutsche Fußball Liga, the Westdeutsche Lotterie, the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of Finance. In addition, there are numerous international customers, including Swisscom, AXA Switzerland, Alpitour, the Austrian Football Bundesliga and Swiss Federal Railways.
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