Draft:Solita (company)

Solita is a technology company founded in Finland.

History and expansion
Solita was founded in 1996.

In 2017, Solita acquired a Finnish service design company Palmu.

In April 2018, a private equity company Apax Digital Fund announced it had acquired the majority of Solita’s shares from Vaaka Partners, a Finnish private equity company

In 2019, Solita acquired the shares in the Ferrologic Group, the digital services consultancy operating in Sweden, Denmark and Belgium. Together with Ferrologic, Solita. In 2019 Solita acquired a Swedish data consultancy company Sparks.

In 2021, Solita acquired Danish company Intellishore.

In April 2022, Solita also announced the acquisition of Danish IT consulting company Commentor A/S.

At the end of 2023, Solita acquired a stake in Future Mind.

In the beginning of 2024, Solita expanded its operations to Zürich, Switzerland.

Organization
The company's head office is located in Tampere and it also operates abroad in Berlin, Gothenburg, Oslo, Copenhagen, Aalborg, Glostrup, Vejle, Leuven, Gent, Tallinn, Tartu, Stockholm, Malmö, Munich, Warsaw and Zürich.

Products and market
Company provide consultion to service design, software and mobile app development, AI & analytics, cloud, and integration services.

In June 2020, Solita won a public tender organized by Finnish institute for health and welfare (THL) for a mobile application called Koronavilkku tracking corona exposures, which THL used for the prevention of the coronavirus pandemic in Finland.

Solita has also developed election information system for the Ministry of Justice in Finland.

The company is involved in developing a method for creating synthetic imaging data for brain research in an international Industrial-grade Verification and Validation of Evolving Systems (IVVES) project. The IVVES project is coordinated by Philips of the Netherlands and involves 26 partners from five different countries.

In 2022, Solita was named Microsoft Azure Data, Analytics and AI Partner of the Year for the second year in a row.

Company Culture
In 2023, The Labor Inspectorate of Estonia has awarded Solita as the Good Working Environment of the year.

In 2022, Solita’s CEO Ossi Lindroos was named among Top 100 IT influencers in Finland by Tivi.