Visma Solutions

Visma Solutions
joint stock company
Founded 2012Lappeenranta, Finland
Products business software, SaaS, PSA, E-accounting
Parent Visma
Website visma.com/severawww.netvisor.fi

Visma Solutions is a Finnish joint stock company, which offers SaaS business software for companies. The company provides professional services automation software Visma Severa and E-accounting software Visma Netvisor. Visma Solutions belongs to the Visma group.[1]

History

Visma Solutions was founded in the end of year 2012, when former joint stock company called Netvisor was named as Visma Solutions. Netvisor was founded by Markku Nylund, while he studied at Lappeenranta University of Technology. In 2000 Netvisor was merged with Bittivisio and the first version of the software was launched in 2002. [2] A couple of years later Cap Gemini Ernst & Young bought Bittivisio, but sold Netvisor’s business already in 2005 to Solanum Networks Economic Administration. [3] [4] Since then Netvisor was operating as a joint owned company and was responsible for marketing and R&D activities of the software.[2] From 2011 on Netvisor has been part of Visma group and in the end of 2012 the company’s name was changed to Visma Solutions. [5] [6]

Visma Severa was founded in 2004 by Ari-Pekka Salovaara and Jari Kärkkäinen, who were studying at Lappeenranta University of Technology at the time. [7] In 2010 company was acquired by Visma and from 2013 on has been part of Visma Solutions. [6]

Visma Severa

Visma Severa PSA software, which is optimized for organizations such as PR, advertising, design, IT, engineering, law, architecture and accounting firms. [8] Visma Severa is used by 700 professional companies worldwide. The main markets are Finland, Sweden and Norway. [9]

Visma Netvisor

Visma Netvisor is e-accounting software, which is used by over 7500 Finnish companies of all sizes and 250 accounting offices. The software has been developed over 10 years and it is one of the pioneers in the field of e-accounting and SaaS software.[1] Netvisor has been rewarded multiple times. For example in 2005 Netvisor’s eAccounting service was nominated as world’s best online service for banks and in 2010 Netvisor was among the ten fastest growing technology companies in Finland.[10] [11]

References

  1. 1 2 </ref "Visma Solution’s LinkedIn profile". Visma Solutions. June 6, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Growing company teaches – Case Netvisor (in Finnish)". Markku Nylund. Oct 10, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Press release (in Finnish)". Lasmak/Lassi Mäkinen. Jan 19, 2004.
  4. ↑ "Press release (in Finnish)". Lasmak/Lassi Mäkinen. June 9, 2005.
  5. ↑ "Visma becomes the leading business software provider in Finland after acquiring Passeli and Netvisor". Visma. Oct 13, 2011.
  6. 1 2 "Article (in Finnish)". Taloussanomat/Heini Kettunen. Apr 10, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Severa’s Acquisition Was a Great Success – Let’s Dig up a Few Facts". Technopolis/Artur Surov. Aug 23, 2010.
  8. ↑ "Visma Severa’s customers". Visma Solutions. June 6, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Visma Severa corporation". Visma Solutions. June 6, 2013.
  10. ↑ "Netvisor eAccounting service is nominated as world’s best online service for banks (in Finnish)". Lasmak / Lassi Mäkinen. June 3, 2005.
  11. ↑ "Deloitte Tech Fast 50 Finland Winners Announced". ArcticStartup / Antti Vilpponen. Nov 18, 2010.

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