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Winning in the AI era is not just about how much data you have. Being close to your customers is equally important. On 9 October, our CEO Merete Hverven takes the stage at Wave in Turin for a fireside chat: "The European Advantage: Building Intelligence at Scale." Her take: real advantage in the AI era comes from proximity, understanding customers better than anyone else. Visma built that at scale, combining global reach with local expertise and entrepreneurial autonomy. One of Europe's largest networks of software entrepreneurs. Millions of customers. A different path to scale, and a stronger one. Link to the event - https://lnkd.in/ejSk6v6K See you there?

AI moved the goalposts. Tooling shifts every few months. Compliance keeps climbing. Building that alone is slow. Visma solved it first. Five Competence Centres. 1,300+ tech talents. Same time zone. Same people, year after year. e-conomic made a shared bet on great engineering, and it paid off. Now, 60+ talents across Portugal, Romania, and Slovakia, together with Danish teams, build the leading SME accounting platform in Denmark. Great engineering is scarce, not inside Visma. Read the full story 👇

Across the markets we operate in, one pattern keeps showing up: accounting professionals are ready for more high-value work, but the systems around them haven't caught up. New research from Silverfin, a Visma company, puts numbers to it. Surveying 500 accounting professionals across the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Luxembourg: 📊 84% of firms already earn at least a fifth of their revenue from advisory 📈 53% regularly turn away more advisory work than they can deliver 💶 Getting clients to pay extra for it remains one of the toughest barriers The demand for advice isn't the problem. Disconnected systems, manual re-entry, and AI still too unproven to trust daily are eating the hours that should go to clients. And firms that do free up that time hit a second question: how do you charge for judgement? That means pricing advice as its own service, not folding it into the compliance fee. Software that only buys back hours gets a firm halfway there. The rest is commercial: pricing advisory clearly, and turning reclaimed time into revenue firms can actually collect. That's the shift accountants are navigating and the shift our companies are built to support.

A pleasure to announce that Visma’s CEO Merete Hverven has been included on the 2026 #Leaders50 list! This recognition, created by Thinkers50, highlights 50 inspiring leaders worldwide based on their impactful leadership practices and philosophies. Leaders are recognised for the impact they are making through their organisations, their contribution to business and society, their sense of purpose, and their commitment to developing others. Alongside Merete, the list also features other tech CEO’s like Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, AMD’s Lisa Su and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. You’ll find a link to the full list in the comments. Congratulations, Merete. At Visma, we are proud of what we continue to achieve together!

Growth. Margins. AI, built in. Trust, compounding. That's not a wishlist — it's what H1 2026 looked like across Visma. Real numbers, built the same way we build everything: locally, market by market, backed by shared scale and capability. This is our momentum. And we're just getting started.

Nmbrs, Yuki, WeFact B.V. - Online invoicing, Visionplanner, four strong Dutch brands, one Visma Business Platform. Most entrepreneurs don't lose time running their business. They lose it running between systems. From today, Nmbrs brings accounting, payroll, invoicing and financial reporting together for Dutch entrepreneurs and their accountants. Half a million of them already use it. Less admin. More time to grow the business. Read the full announcement https://lnkd.in/eATG6tts

Brazil is a market where software cannot simply be translated and imported. It has to understand how Brazilian businesses actually work. That reality comes through in the perspectives of Mateus Vicente, Vinicius Roveda, Yvon Gaillard and Marian Canteiro, who are building solutions around the specific challenges Brazilian businesses face every day. Conta Azul, MaisMei, Dootax and Pag Útil were built around that reality. Visma’s role is to give strong local companies more capacity to keep investing, adapting and growing. Made in Brazil. Globally backed. Read the full story on what it takes to build software for Brazil. Link in the comments.

One brand. A proud owner of trusted software companies. H1 2026: 2.7 million customers across 28 markets. €3,051m ARR. €547m Adjusted EBITDA. Behind those numbers sits our real strength: locally loved companies each deeply rooted in their markets, all backed by Visma's scale, capital and AI capability. That's the model. Local expertise. Global strength. One direction. Press release and report at the link in comments.

No AI provider can tell you the carbon cost of a single query. Here's what we're doing about it at Visma. 550+ AI initiatives group-wide. An AI Code of Conduct. Legal review on every strategic build. A Governance Portal so every team knows what's approved. And the proof it pays: e-conomic cut cloud emissions 67% in a year. Flex Applications, 93% lower CO₂. Both cut costs too. Efficiency and sustainability aren't a trade-off. They're the same move. Full read 👇

Every kilometre tells a story. Every challenge creates an opportunity. The Tour de Femmes is now. The road ahead awaits. Wishing Team Visma l Lease a Bike the very best as they take on the Tour de France Femmes.