Neckarsulm, 24th July 2024 – Cloud solutions are an essential part of future-proof digitalization. These solutions must meet exacting demands for availability, confidentiality and integrity of data, especially in public administration. With its in-house model, govdigital reaches the federal government, all federal states and around 85 percent of all local authorities in Germany via its 28 members. Last week, the cooperative accepted the bid from BTC Business Technology Consulting AG to become the central cloud broker for access to cloud solutions – for the next four years. With den gd.Cloud-Broker BTC offers an easy gateway to the cloud for govdigital members, including access to the offerings from STACKIT.

Neckarsulm, June 19, 2024 – STACKIT, the cloud provider of Schwarz Digits offering data sovereignty, has been supporting the institutions at the Heilbronn Bildungscampus with cloud services for many years. This offer is now being rolled out across Germany as part of the “Academia” program. Universities and research institutions will be given the opportunity to use STACKIT cloud services for free, in some cases, or at a heavily reduced price for research, education, and their production systems. “Education and research are the cornerstones of social progress,” says Walter Wolf, Board Member at Schwarz IT, explaining this step at the Cloud X Summit. “That is why it is essential that we store and process scientific data in Germany. We cannot afford to make any compromises when it comes to data sovereignty in science.”

Neckarsulm, 14. June 2024 – Schwarz Digits, the IT and digital division of Schwarz Group (including Lidl and Kaufland) is realigning its agency offering. The IT arm of the division, Schwarz IT, acquired mmmake (then Camao IDC) in May 2020 in order to strengthen its IT expertise and provide external customers with an additional digital service offering. Camao IDC had 60 employees at the time. The full-service digital agency offers consulting, software development and IT services, traditional agency services such as social media campaigns and moving image productions as well as HR transformation consulting, including implementation with SAP.

Neckarsulm/Las Vegas, May, 8, 2024 - Sovereign German cloud provider STACKIT, a Schwarz Digits brand, and ServiceNow, the AI platform for business transformation, have entered into a groundbreaking partnership. A partnership that confirms that it is possible to combine innovation, digital transformation and data sovereignty in cloud computing. The two companies made the announcement at Knowledge 2024, ServiceNow's largest customer event in Las Vegas.

Neckarsulm, April 29. 2024 – Advertising on the welcome screens in more than 580 Kaufland stores across Germany is becoming even more attractive. Schwarz Media, a company of Schwarz Group, is now offering advertisers the opportunity to book programmatic advertising on more than 900 welcome screens. Located in the entrance areas of stores, the screens attract a particularly high level of attention and allow targeted and flexible campaign control. Advertisers reach up to 53 million contacts* per week at an extremely attractive touchpoint.

Neckarsulm, April 11, 2024 – On April 10 and 11, 120 business leaders and renowned experts from business, politics, the media and the public sector came together at the Cyber Security Conference by Schwarz to jointly develop strategies for one of the biggest security challenges in Germany: Cybercriminals caused an estimated total of EUR 206 billion in damages in 2023. By comparison, the losses resulting from natural disasters amounted to EUR 230 billion. Geopolitical disruptions and rapid developments in artificial intelligence led to a further increase in cyberattacks. Means of communication are also being targeted: For example, through vulnerabilities in communication tools, attackers gain access to company secrets or sensitive data that they can use for further attacks.

Neckarsulm/Palma de Mallorca, 11 April 2024 - RCD Mallorca and the companies of Schwarz Group PreZero and XM Cyber are setting an example for a more careful use of resources in sport and digital security in Spanish professional football. With the goal of making the home ground of Estadi Mallorca Son Moix the first in Spain that follows the vision of zero waste, the partnership is groundbreaking for the Spanish soccer league LaLiga. The long-term cooperation is also intended to sensitize RCD Mallorca fans to the finiteness of resources, the importance of the circular economy and the topic of cyber security.

Neckarsulm, March 14, 2024 – STACKIT, the German cloud from Schwarz Digits, helps customers to use cloud services with confidence by operating high-performance data centers in Germany and ensuring that all data processing takes place within the EU. This ensures the security, integrity and availability of data, as well as compliance with the GDPR and other legal requirements. The use of open standards and open source technologies avoids provider lock-in.

Neckarsulm, January 23, 2024 – STACKIT, the sovereign German Cloud of Schwarz Digits, has received the C5 certificate of type 1 according to the criteria catalog “Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalog” (C5) of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) for the infrastructure stack. The C5 criteria catalog specifies the minimum requirements for secure cloud computing and is primarily aimed at professional cloud providers, their auditors and customers.

Neckarsulm, 6 November 2023 – Technology is fundamentally changing our everyday life, soci-ety, and business. In the companies of Schwarz Group, technological innovations play an im-portant role in terms of expanding their position as one of the world’s leading retail groups. Se-cure and sovereign AI is a key technology in this regard.

Neckarsulm, 29 September 2023 – The advancing digitalization of everyday life is a megatrend that is greatly influencing the transformation of business and society. As a result, custom IT solutions and digital services are becoming increasingly more relevant, from a future-proof IT infrastructure and e-commerce to the cloud and cybersecurity. The companies of Schwarz Group are accounting for this increased relevance by founding a new division. In addition to the familiar divisions Lidl, Kaufland, PreZero, and Schwarz Produktion, “Schwarz Digits” will now spearhead all matters related to IT and digitalization.