New ALSO as-a-service platform for healthcare service providers

ALSO has partnered with P.E.G. eG, a leading purchasing cooperative in the German healthcare market, to enable its co-owners to obtain services from the ALSO Cloud Marketplace as-a-service, from IT workplaces to ward trolleys, `being always state of the art when technology is concerned.

Technology provider and distributor ALSO has set up a platform that is customized to meet the special requirements of over 600 co-owners representing 3,400 healthcare and welfare facilities.

“The healthcare sector is in the throes of radical digital change. Studies assume that by 2025 the market volume for digital products and services will be worth up to EUR 38 billion in Germany and around EUR 155 billion in the EU*,” says Gustavo Möller-Hergt, CEO of ALSO Holding AG (SIX: ALSN). “Jointly with P.E.G. we are now bundling our strengths and competences to ensure as a strong player that the market is supplied with the best and most innovative as-a-service products and solutions.”

The P.E.G. eG purchasing cooperative was founded nearly 50 years ago in order to be able to negotiate on an equal footing with large healthcare suppliers and industry partners. Its foremost objective was to provide professional procurement management as an optimal service for co-owners on attractive purchasing conditions. It succeeded in doing so. Today the cooperative is a market leader with a sales volume of around EUR 830 million. It assists its co-owners with the procurement of all products and services required to care for hospital and rehab patients and people in need of care.

“The P.E.G. has long ceased to be just a purchasing cooperative. The services we provide for our co-owners now extend way beyond procurement,” says Udo Sohn, Head of IT and Digitization. “We strive daily to provide our customers with vigorous support in digitizing their processes and also offer IT services of our own and a variety of IT systems such as shop solutions, product and master data management, scanning, EDI connections and a range of purchasing and consulting services. That is why collaboration with ALSO is for us the logical next step to further extend our portfolio of products and services.”

ALSO has hitherto provided platforms of its own for IoT, security, virtualization and 3D printing. In setting up the new service platform for the healthcare service provider the technology provider ALSO is at the same time further extending its industry-specific offerings.

* Roland Berger Focus: Future of Health Eine Branche digitalisiert sich – radikaler als erwartet, October 2019

ALSO Holding AG

ALSO Holding AG (ALSN.SW) (Emmen/Switzerland) brings providers and buyers of the ICT industry together. ALSO offer more  than  550  vendors  of  hardware,  software  and  IT-services  access  toover  100  000  buyers,  who  can  call  a  broad spectrum  of  other  customized  services  in  the  logistics,  finance,  and  IT  services  sectors,  as  well  as  traditional  distributionservices. From the development of complex IT landscapes, the provision and maintenance of hardware and software, right through to the return, reconditioning and remarketing of IT hardware, ALSO offers all services as a one-stop shop. ALSO is represented  in  23European  countries  and  generates  total  net  sales  of  approximately  9.2  billion  euroswith  around  4  000 employees  in  the  fiscal  year  2018.  The  majority  shareholder  of  ALSO  Holding  AG  is  the  Droege  Group,  Düsseldorf, Germany. Further information is available at http://also.group

Droege Group

Droege  Group  (founded  in  1988)  is  an  independent  advisory  and  investment  company  under  full  family  ownership.  The company  acts  as  a  specialist  for  tailor-made  transformation  programs  aiming  to  enhance  corporate  value.  Droege  Group combines its corporate family-run structure and capital strength into a family-equity business model. The group carries out direct investments with its own equity in corporate spin-offs and medium-sized companies in «special situations». With the guiding principle «execution -following the rules of art», the group is a pioneer in execution-oriented corporate development. Droege  Group  follows  a  focused  investment  strategy  based  on  current  megatrends  (knowledge,  connectivity,  prevention, demography,  specialization,  future  work,  shopping  4.0).  Enthusiasm  for  quality,  innovation  and  speed  determines  the company’s actions. In recent years Droege Group has successfully positioned itself in domestic and international  markets and operates in 30 countries. More information: https://droege-group.com

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