Den norske kirke

Name

Den norske kirke

Legal name

Kirkepartner AS

Website

https://kirkepartner.no

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious IT Services

NAICS

Computer Facilities Management Services (541513), Business Service Centers (56143), Religious Organizations (8131)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Management Services (8741), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Knowledge Management & KCS Programs (BPAEAJAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Denominational & Ecclesiastical Governance Bodies (Dioceses, Synods, Conferences) (BPAGAJAB), Places of Worship & Religious Facilities Operations (Cemeteries, Retreat Centers, Pilgrimage Sites) (BPAGAJAL)

Keywords

• Church IT services
• Managed IT services
• Cloud infrastructure
• IT servicedesk
• Document management

Headquarters

HQ city

Oslo

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. IT Services to Church Organizations: Kirkepartner AS provides centralized IT services, support, and infrastructure to the Church of Norway's parishes, diocese, and national church body. Revenue appears to come from service contracts funded by church organizational budgets.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Kirkepartner AS, the IT services arm of the Church of Norway, provides centralized IT services to over 8,000 users across church parishes, dioceses, and the national church body. Core offerings include Kirkens lokale skrivebord (a Microsoft-based unified desktop environment), specialized church management systems (Medlemsregister member registry, Gravplass.no cemetery portal, Dnk360 church management platform, Publiseringsløsning publishing solution), and a centralized servicedesk with customer service portal for IT support.

Product overview

Kirkepartner is the IT services provider for the Church of Norway (Den norske kirke), offering a unified portfolio of church-specific digital services. The core offering centers on Kirkens lokale skrivebord (Kirkens local desktop), a Microsoft-based desktop environment that provides staff access to shared documents, Office applications, and integrated church systems. This core platform connects to specialized modules including Medlemsregister (member registry), Dnk360 (church management system), and Gravplass.no (cemetery management portal), plus a publishing solution. Kirkepartner also operates a customer service portal (Kundeserviceportal) built on Microsoft PowerApps for ticket management and knowledge base access. All services are hosted on Azure cloud infrastructure with status monitoring available via an Atlassian-based status page.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Kirkens lokale skrivebord

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• MicrosoftcoreTechnology or IntegrationMicrosoft is the core technology partner providing the underlying platform for Kirkepartner's services. Kirkepartner leverages Microsoft Azure cloud environment, Microsoft 365/Office applications, and Microsoft Authenticator for authentication. Services like Kirkens lokale skrivebord are built on Microsoft technology. Microsoft discontinued Windows 10 support after October 14, 2025, which affected church PCs.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• CGI Group: CGI is a global IT and business consulting services firm with a sizeable Nordic footprint, providing managed infrastructure and application services to government and public-sector clients. It is comparable as a large-scale incumbent offering end-to-end IT operations to institutional customers.
• TietoEVRY: TietoEVRY is a large Nordic IT services and software vendor serving public-sector, healthcare, and welfare clients. Its managed-services and digital workplace portfolio overlaps with Kirkepartner's Microsoft-centric offerings, though at much greater scale and across many verticals.
• Netcompany: Netcompany is a major Nordic IT services and digital solutions company, particularly strong in Danish public-sector IT (including former KMD mandates). It is comparable to Kirkepartner in delivering mission-critical, Microsoft-based IT operations for institutional customers in the Nordics.

Emerging players

• Pushpay: Pushpay provides church engagement, giving, and management software to faith communities, primarily in North America. It overlaps with Kirkepartner on digital tools for parish/member administration, though it operates a SaaS model rather than the captive managed-services model Kirkepartner uses.
• Shelby Systems: Shelby Systems provides church management software (membership, contributions, accounting) primarily to US Baptist and evangelical congregations. It is comparable to Kirkepartner's specialized church-management stack, although narrower in product scope and confined to the US market.

Regional players

• Vitec Software Group: Vitec is a Nordic vertical software group providing industry-specific business software. While it serves different verticals than Kirkepartner, its model of acquiring and running niche, mission-critical software businesses in the Nordics makes it a relevant structural comparable.

Others

• Microsoft: Microsoft is the core infrastructure, identity, and productivity partner for Kirkepartner (Azure, Microsoft 365, PowerApps, Authenticator). It is not a competitor but a strategic ecosystem dependency — comparable as the platform whose roadmap and pricing decisions materially shape Kirkepartner's economics.

Direct peers

• Atea: Atea is the largest Nordic IT infrastructure and managed-services provider, headquartered in Norway. Like Kirkepartner, it delivers Microsoft-centric workplace, networking, and servicedesk solutions — but across commercial and public-sector customers rather than a single religious institution.
• Bouvet: Bouvet is a Norwegian IT consultancy and managed-services firm with strong Microsoft and public-sector practices. It is comparable to Kirkepartner in scale and in providing Microsoft-based workspace, document, and collaboration services to Nordic institutional clients.
• ACS Technologies: ACS Technologies is one of the largest faith-based software vendors in the US, providing church management, membership, and accounting software to Protestant congregations. It is directly comparable to Kirkepartner's Medlemsregister, Dnk360, and Gravplass.no products, although operating in a different geography.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/kirken
• Facebookfacebook.com/Glemmenkirke
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kirkepartner-ikt

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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