# About us — Add Value

> Markdown version of https://www.addvalue.it/en/about, without the design.
> Figures last updated: 29 October 2026.

We build, modernise and keep running software for banks, insurers and large industrial companies.
We work out of Verona and Ancona, as a company of Add Value Group. The group's history and people are
on the Add Value Group website.

## Add Value in numbers

- 170 people: developers, data engineers and AI specialists
- 15 million euro in revenue (2025)
- 157 IT projects a year
- 20,952 consulting hours a year

## How we work

Three ways: bespoke projects, application maintenance, products of our own. The contract changes, the
method does not: FOCUS, governance at three levels (operational, relationship, strategic) and documented
traceability are the same throughout. The services are set out on the Solutions pages (software, data,
intelligence) and on Products.

### FOCUS

FOCUS (For Controlling Unique Solutions) is the method Add Value owns and uses to run projects and
ongoing development. It comes in a waterfall and an agile version, with variants for application
maintenance and for rehosting. Each phase produces documents under a fixed code: initial study and
project management (A), functional analysis (F), data (D), technical analysis, build and test (T),
manuals (M).

### End2End and ZeroRework

- **End2End** — requirements, architecture, development, testing, go-live and maintenance under one
  team. The people who gather the requirement are in the team that later runs the system.
- **ZeroRework** — incremental development from working proofs of concept: expectations are checked
  before release, not at acceptance.

### Secure development

The development process sits inside the ISO/IEC 27001 management system and applies the privacy by
design principle of article 25 of the GDPR: data security requirements are settled during analysis.

- CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins) with SonarQube quality gates: code that does not pass is not released
- Identity management on open standards (Keycloak, OAuth 2.0)
- Separate development, test and production environments, with access logged and reviewed every quarter
- Operations run to ITIL
- Infrastructure as code and automated releases (Helm, Argo) on cloud projects
- Static and dynamic code analysis (SAST and DAST) to OWASP, penetration testing before critical
  releases, regular secure coding training

### Development assisted by AI, with Claude

Add Value is an Anthropic partner for building solutions on Claude, and uses Claude in its own
development too: analysing existing code, generating code and tests, writing documentation. It is the
same approach as L2M, applied to everyday projects. Code written with AI follows the same rules as any
other code:

- Every generated line goes through human review, testing and the quality gates before release
- The models run on cloud infrastructure in the EU, through a gateway that logs every call
- Client data and client code are never used to train the models
- Whether and where AI is used on a client's project is agreed with them at the start

### Technology stack

| Area | Technologies |
| --- | --- |
| Backend and host | COBOL, RPG, IBM z/OS, IBM i (AS/400), Java, Spring, Spring Boot, .NET Core, Python |
| Frontend and mobile | Angular, React, Redux, Next.js, Flutter, WordPress |
| Data | IBM Db2, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Elastic, Qdrant |
| Integration | Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, Kong, Pentaho |
| AI | Claude, Qdrant for retrieval |
| Operations | Docker, Kubernetes, VMware Tanzu, Red Hat OpenShift |
| Automation and quality | GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, SonarQube, Jira, Bitbucket |
| Security and identity | Keycloak, OAuth 2.0, OWASP |
| Cloud | Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Firebase |
| Blockchain | R3 Corda, Algorand |

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## Contacts

- Email: marketing@addvalue.it
- Phone: +39 045 828 2711
- Verona, Via Morgagni 22 (37135) — Ancona, Via Giulio Pastore 17 (60131)
- https://www.addvalue.it/en/contacts