Nortal

Nortal headquarters in Ülemiste City, Tallinn, Estonia.

2000 – Nortal was established under the name Webmedia in Tartu, Estonia.

2004 – Webmedia was ranked first in the Estonian IT-companies TOP, published by Bonnier Group business newspaper Äripäev.

2006 – Webmedia expanded operations to Lithuania, Romania and Serbia, doubling the number of employees.

2008 – Webmedia opened a branch office operates in Qatar.[4] In July 2009, Webmedia Group signed a contract to participate in the development of Qatar's e-state.

2008 – Deloitte & Touché ranked Webmedia among the 30 fastest-growing companies in Central and Eastern Europe, and among the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in the EMEA region.

2010 – Webmedia acquired the healthcare unit of Cybernetica AS, adding laboratory information system to eHealth product line.

2011 – Webmedia Group AS acquired Finnish CCC Corporation Oy,[5] a systems' development partner for telecommunication, shipping and industrial companies, resulting in the largest software development company in the Baltics.[6] They rebranded into Nortal.[7]

The same year, EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 title was awarded to Priit Alamäe and Taavi Kotka.

2012 – Nortal helped create the electronic financial management platform GIFMIS (Government Integrated Financial Management and Information System[8]) for the federal government of Nigeria, an integral part of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) financial policy. It goes on to save N153 billion and uncover about 46,000 ghost workers by 2013.[9]

2012 – Nortal was the IT-partner for the first Estonian e-census, breaking the world record – 66% of the population participated in the census over the internet.

2013 – Nortal started developing Oman's Invest Easy portal, which has received high critical acclaim as one of the best Government to Business portals in the world.

2013 – Nortal and Fast Enterprises won €226 million tender to supply the Finnish Tax Administration with a new tax system.[10]

2014 – Nortal received an award for the most employee and family friendly company in Estonia for the third time.

2016 – Nortal creates a government e-services portal for the Sultanate of Oman. The Invest Easy portal allows Omani entrepreneurs to register a company in 1 minute 50 seconds.[11] Oman rose 127 places in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business index ranking as a result.[12]

2016 – Nortal acquired marketing automation and lead management company Element, based in Stockholm, Sweden.[13]

2016 – Nortal Group shareholders bought back 50% of Group shares from Enterprise Investors and LHV Pension Funds, regaining full ownership of the company.

2017 – Nortal issued bonds for 15 million euros to boost expansion.

2018 – Nortal opens an office in Düsseldorf, Germany.

2018 – Nortal acquired U.S. Company Dev9 [14] expanding its North American footprint, rebranding the company to Nortal.

2019 - Nortal concluded €50 million bond issue to bolster company's expansion and accelerate growth.

2020 – Nortal announced selling off its marketing automation division in Sweden via a management buyout.[15]

The same year, Nortal acquired Schütze AG,[16] a leading strategic consulting and software engineering company in Germany. The merge strengthened Nortal’s expansion strategy in Europe, creating a transatlantic digital transformation powerhouse of 1000 experts.

Nortal was named the Company of the Year 2020 and the Exporter of the Year 2020 at the Estonian Entrepreneurship Award, the highest state recognition for entrepreneurs.

2021 - Nortal acquired a minority stake at cybersecurity startup Talgen to to bolster cybersecurity capabilities and unlock new opportunities in Europe, North America, and the GCC.

2022 - company acquired Skelia, an award-winning leader in building cross-border IT organizations. Following the acquisition, the company re-branded to and launched a new service brand “pwrteams” for building multi-site technology teams.

The company also expanded it's operations to Canada in 2022, and is growing its customer base on the market.

The same year, Nortal established a Growth office, appointing Elizabeth Kiehner as company's first Chief Growth Officer. Before joining Nortal, Kiehner was a Vice President of Enterprise Transformation at Capgemini Invent, led the Digital Transformation Office of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and IBM's Director of Global Design Practice.

Over the years Nortal has been the start for several spin-off businesses, which continue to operate as separate companies – ZeroTurnaround, Plumbr, eInvoices Centre, OpenText ECM[17] and Leanest Ltd.[18]

One of the founding members, Taavi Kotka left Nortal in 2012 to become the first Chief Information Officer of the Estonian government and one of the founders of the e-Residency program.[19]

Over the past two decades, Nortal has been the driving force behind 100+ digital transformation projects for governments, healthcare institutions, and leading global enterprises around the world. Nortal has received significant critical acclaim for many of its solutions.

Most of Nortal's revenue comes from strategic consulting, software development projects, and related advisory and digitalization services. The customer portfolio is dominated by large enterprises and organizations operating in telecommunications and media, healthcare, heavy and process industries, logistics, and financial and public sector customers.

Most notably approx 40% of all e-government solutions in Estonia have been planned and implemented by Nortal, for example operative system of European Union structural funds for Estonian Ministry of Finance,[20] employment information system for Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund,[21] launching proactive family and parental benefits[22] for Social Insurance Board etc.

Among some of its most noteworthy projects are also the electronic financial management platform GIFMIS for the federal government of Nigeria,[23] e-tax system for Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) and Invest Easy,[24] major government e-services portal for the Sultanate of Oman. Invest Easy is widely acknowledged and awarded EODB (ease of doing business) project that has had substantial impact on local business environment and climate in Oman. Following successful launch and implementation of Invest Easy portal, Oman made an unprecedented leap in the Ease of Doing Business Ranking of World Bank's annual Doing Business 2017 report, jumping 127 places in category ’Starting a Business’ compared to previous year.[25] Invest Easy has also been awarded: H H Sheikh Salem al Ali al Sabah Informatics Award 2016 in the Government category; Al Roya Economic Award for Best Government to Business e-service; GCC e-Government Award for Best Government to Business e-service etc. UNCTAD (GER.co rating [26]) rated Invest Easy portal in Oman with a perfect score of 10/10, naming it one of the five best government-to-business (G2B) solutions in the world

Among other examples, in Germany the company launched an award-winning pilot to manage digital prescriptions, paired with medical video consultations in the federal state of Hessen, together with Optica and other partners.

Since the founding of the company in 2000, Nortal's solutions have been implemented in 60 countries across five continents. Nortal has eight home markets – Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Oman, UAE, Germany, United States, Canada and Serbia.

To promote learning and innovation, software development and IT-analysis, Nortal has launched cooperation initiatives with universities in Tartu and Tallinn, where Nortal's senior specialists run educational courses on a regular basis.

Nortal supports mathematics and science education both through participating in the organization of science and mathematics competitions in Estonian secondary schools as well as by providing awards.

Nortal contributes to the development of the Estonian ICT sector by providing know-how, consultations and financial support to Estonian start-ups through strategic partnerships with EstBAN,[27] the Estonian Business Angel Network.

By signing the tech green pledge in 2019, Nortal committed to achieving company-wide carbon-neutrality by 2030.

The company has been owned entirely by employees since 2016.[28] The chairman of the board of Nortal is Priit Alamäe. The management board members include Andre Krull and Neringa Narbutiene.

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