Adfinis Awarded Consulting Partner of the Year

From left to right: Ralf Scharly (Country Manager, Adfinis Germany), Eike Kirch (Director Sales, Adfinis Germany), and Sascha Zimmer (Field CTO, Adfinis Germany) at the IONOS Partner Awards 2025

Open source solution provider Adfinis has been awarded Consulting Partner of the Year at the 2025 IONOS Summit. Presented during the IONOS Partner Awards ceremony held on November 4 in Berlin, the award honors Adfinis’s success in delivering robust and secure cloud native platforms in partnership with IONOS.

Adfinis was selected from other finalists NorthIO and Disy Informationssysteme as the winner of the category ‘Consulting Partner of the Year’, where over 50 nominations were received. Recognized for outstanding consultation and implementation expertise, exemplifying the mutual trust and strong collaboration needed for success, Adfinis was also praised for its innovative standards in working on projects such as openDesk on IONOS, its collaboration with Komm.ONE on critical IT solutions for the German public sector, and the establishment of the Public Health Service (ÖGD) Health Cloud as a nationwide benchmark in the modernization of public health infrastructure. Adfinis Germany’s Country Manager, Ralf Scharly, emphasized the value of partnerships and a highly collaborative approach in implementing open source solutions:

“We are thrilled, proud, and extremely grateful for this recognition at the IONOS Summit – the second time we have been nominated for this award, which goes not only to Adfinis Germany but to the whole Adfinis team worldwide. Behind this award lies the mutual trust, transparency, and openness that are at the heart of our entire company – an approach that has enabled us to work closely with valuable partners like IONOS in implementing secure, scalable, and reliable cloud native platforms to our customers. Such partnerships are essential for advancing digital sovereignty on an international level."

– Ralf Scharly, Country Manager, Adfinis Germany

Adfinis was previously nominated for the Consulting Partner of the Year 2024 award, where they were a finalist. The IONOS Partner Awards recognize the outstanding performance and innovation of partner companies and projects. It is a component of the IONOS Summit, which brings together customers, partners, and industry professionals each year around topics such as cloud infrastructure and security, digital sovereignty, artificial intelligence (AI), and technological innovation.