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The new investment of the Ministry of National Defense is part of the plan to modernize the Polish army in the area of command and intelligence support systems. Under the agreement, Asseco Poland will provide software and hardware as well as conduct necessary training courses for employees of the Military Geographic Centre, which is responsible for the collection and processing of terrain information, development of digital and paper maps and surveying work, among others. The implementation of the new system will ensure that the Polish army units have access to up-to-date and accurate information about the geographical area in which the military operations will be carried out. Ultimately, Geoserwer 2 is to ensure effective work for nearly 500 of its users. The expected implementation is scheduled for the last quarter of 2018.

The Geoserwer 2 procedure was the only large tender for an IT system settled by the Armament Inspectorate this year. This is a great distinction for us and a confirmation of Asseco's competence as a provider of advanced IT solutions for the uniformed services. It is also worth noting that Asseco is the only Polish company with a ready-made imaging analysis system (SAO) capable of working with Geoserwer 2, said Zdzisław Wiater, Director of the Military Area at Asseco Poland.

Asseco Poland is a provider of solutions for the Polish uniformed services, the NATO institutions and agencies (JFTC, JWC, JALLC, ACT, NSPA, IMS, NCIA) as well as the EU institutions (FRONTEX, ESA and EDA). The company meets the highest standards of data protection and secret information flow. It is the first and only Polish software producer to join an elite group of companies, which have organizational units with a prestigious CMMI-3 certificate, thanks to which it can successfully compete not only in Poland, but also in international markets.

The use of information technology in healthcare institutions is becoming a standard. The huge amount of data and the need for comprehensive patient service make increasingly more hospitals and clinics use advanced IT systems. This means that in order to fully educate a health care professional, medical universities need to equip graduates with new skills.

I am convinced that our actions will be appreciated by students as well as management of hospitals, all the more so because the ongoing digitalization of healthcare services requires specific competencies in the area of efficient use of IT tools, said President of SUM Professor Przemysław Jałowiecki, MD, Ph.D.

The establishment of cooperation with Asseco Poland is another step forward in SUM's attempts to make training of medical professions more practical. In 2012, the university introduced to its curriculum a medical simulation which uses advanced patient phantoms.

Thanks to the software provided by Asseco, we will be able to make a computer simulation of the full patient service process - from the moment of a patient's admission to the hospital department, through the execution of all possible medical procedures that require recording in the IT system, along with building the history of a patient, laboratory tests and electronic prescriptions - to the discharge. Thanks to this, students will leave our university not only with comprehensive knowledge of how to help patients, but also with practical skills of handling IT tools, which they are very likely to come across in their future workplace," added Vice President for Studies and Students at SUM Professor Joanna Lewin-Kowalik, MD, Ph.D..

For several years Asseco has been engaged in the development and education of future medical personnel. Students have the opportunity to participate in training courses conducted by our experts, among others. The project we are going to implement together with the Medical University of Silesia is the first, in which Asseco will make its AMMS software available for training of future doctors. In our opinion, it will also be an excellent form of using modern IT solutions to increase the potential of both parties in the didactic area, as well as in science and research in the future, said Krzysztof Groyecki, Vice President of the Management Board of Asseco Poland.

Asseco is the largest provider of software for medical units in Poland. AMMS is a comprehensive, integrated IT system supporting the operations of medium and large medical facilities, mainly hospitals, clinics, outpatient clinics, as well as a network of facilities. Asseco's solutions are used by more than 420 hospitals and 9,000 clinics.

Asseco will occupy as many as three floors with a total area of over 3,000 sqm. The office building, which will house the Bydgoszcz branch of the company, is the first such investment in the city. It offers modern systems of water and energy management and CO2 reduction, as well as two independent power supply sources and a generator. It is also located in a very good transport point, which ensures proximity to the railway station and the airport, as well as public transport. The transfer to the new premises is planned for the first quarter of 2018. The change of location will apply to all employees of the Bydgoszcz branch, including the teams providing services for the energy and banking sectors.

The new office will certainly improve our employees' comfort at work. The building will offer them a medical centre, a bicycle parking lot with a cloakroom, a restaurant and a café. Chillout zones will also be prepared in the space belonging to Asseco. The rooms have been designed in a cabinet type. We are hoping that thanks to these facilities, our employees will work more conveniently. We are currently finishing work on the arrangement and division of space in the new office, said Jacek Tomkiewicz, Director of the Administration Department, Asseco Poland.

Due to the international nature of ongoing projects for the energy sector, we constantly need access to specialists. We are looking primarily for programmers, also those with knowledge of web technologies, designers, analysts, testers and service specialists. The new headquarters will make it easier for us to reach that goal, said Bożena Knitter, Director of Production Department at the Energy and Gas Division, Asseco Poland.

Bydgoszcz is one of the key centers of Asseco. The company has hired over 170 employees in the city. This is where the flagship product for the energy sector, namely Asseco Utility Management Solutions (Asseco AUMS), is created and developed. The Bydgoszcz team is also involved in the work on the largest project ever carried out by a Polish IT company in Africa. It cooperates with the Ethiopian governmental agency - the Information Network Security Agency (INSA). The company has already provided and launched a comprehensive IT system for reading-data management based on the Asseco AUMS solution. It also provides advisory services, including the ones related to the development of ERP-class software, as well as the exchange of information technology knowledge that enables the construction of a modern energy market in Ethiopia.

The Pearls of the Polish Economy ranking is prepared by the scientists from the Decision Analysis and Support Systems section of the Warsaw School of Economics. The condition for receiving the title of the Great Pearl was to achieve revenues exceeding PLN 1 billion. It was already the fifteenth edition of the Pearls of the Polish Economy Ranking.

In the first 9 months of 2017, the financial results of the Asseco Group were significantly affected by the sale of a stake in Formula Systems. On the one hand, the impact of this transaction resulted in an additional profit, which is reflected by a very good result on the level of net profit for shareholders, amounting to PLN 402 million in total. That marks an increase by as much as 79% on annual basis. On the other hand, due to the lack of the consolidation of Formula Systems in August and September this year, the results on the level of revenues and operating profit are accordingly lower, said Rafał Kozłowski, Vice President of the Management Board of Asseco Poland. If we had consolidated Formula Systems in this period as up until recently, sales would have been higher by almost PLN 900 million. After taking this amount into account, the Group's revenues would have amounted to PLN 6.28 billion after the first 9 months of this year. In this context, it is worth noting that at the beginning of October, as a result of signing an agreement with the second largest shareholder of Formula Systems, control over the company was regained and Asseco Poland will consolidate the results of this holding in the following quarters, he added.

Currently, foreign markets constitute a significant part of the Asseco Group's revenues - in the first three quarters of 2017, 80% of the Group's sales revenues were generated outside Poland. Growth of revenues was recorded in Central Europe (+11%), Western Europe (+8%) and South-Eastern Europe (+5%).The Group's revenues are very well diversified not only geographically but also by sectors: the general business sector accounted for 40% of sales, the financial sector for 39% and the public administration sector for 21%. The Asseco Group's business and development strategy is still based on the sale of proprietary IT solutions, which amounted to over PLN 4.3 billion in the past reporting period. This accounts for over 80% of total revenues.Asseco continues its cooperation with key customers and actively works for signing new projects. In November 2017, the order backlog amounted to over PLN 7.6 billion and was higher by 1% versus the corresponding period in the previous year.

Asseco Innovation Hub will be the venue for advanced research and development. Their goal will be to develop proprietary IT technologies and products for the energy, telecommunication, media, health care, banking, agriculture, business and public administration sectors, among others. In addition, the center will develop IT security projects.The research will focus on the most important trends in new technologies such as the Internet of Things, telemedicine, electromobility and smart power grids. Asseco Innovation Hub will also offer artificial intelligence solutions, including self-training systems based on the so-called machine learning. Thanks to advanced analysis of data collected in real time from various sources, the system will identify what users do and how to protect them from danger. Asseco is also planning to develop projects related to drone control systems. A team of the best specialists in the country, with extensive experience in software development, will be involved in their construction. In addition, Asseco Innovation Hub will continue to develop solutions for Big Data and CloudComputing.

Asseco Innovation Hub will be a modern R&D centre, which will enable us, a Polish company, to compete even more effectively in foreign markets. Thanks to the investment, approx. 400 new jobs will be created, and its implementation will translate into an increase in innovativeness of the whole region, said Adam Góral, President of the Management Board of Asseco Poland.

The solutions that will be researched at the Asseco Group's new centre in Rzeszów confirm that Poland is actively participating in the fourth industrial revolution. In turn, the ecosystem created by our government for the development of innovation, which includes, among other things, financial support instruments and solutions facilitating cooperation between science and business, allows for synergy between the scientific and technical background. This is extremely important from the point of view of the whole economy, said Deputy Minister of Development Adam Hamryszczak.

Podkarpacie is a region open to development. Here, we invest in modern technologies which determine the success and future of the Polish economy. We especially value companies that create research and prototype centers as well as laboratories. Such measures may result in creating permanent jobs, and this is very important for our economy. Asseco Poland has been constantly improving the quality of its services and investing in their development. Last year alone, it spent over PLN 130 million on research and development. This puts Asseco at the forefront of Polish companies in this field. It is great  that the company's leadership decided to make another important investment and planned to locate it in the Podkarpacie region. Thanks to such projects our region is becoming even more innovative, said Władysław Ortyl, Marshal of the Podkarpacie Voivodeship.

The Asseco Innovation Hub building will be merged with the existing head office of the Company at Olchowa Street in Rzeszów. It will have over 9,000 m2 of total area, 5 above-ground floors and one technical floor. On the ground floor level, in addition to office space for R&D activities, a representative part will be located with a hall and conference rooms. On the next floors there will be a complex of office spaces along with conference rooms, social rooms and the so-called creative rooms. On the last floor there will be a technical terrace and technical rooms.Under the Intelligent Development Operating Program for 2014-2020 Asseco has received more than PLN 26 million of funding from the Ministry of Development for the project implementation. The total value of the investment, which is planned to be completed in Q2 2020, is PLN 80,359,662.57.