INFOR ELEA Piedmont: Olivetti's corporate training legacy
INFOR ELEA, born from the merger of ELEA S.p.A. (Olivetti Group, 1979) and INFOR (1994), is among the leading players in Piedmont's corporate training sector, with over 250 institutional and economic partners and locations across northwest Italy.
About INFOR ELEA
INFOR ELEA Smart Business Academy has its registered office in San Secondo di Pinerolo, in the province of Turin, with additional operational locations in Turin, Rome, Florence, Asti, Alessandria and Cuneo. The organization was born from the merger of two historic institutions in Piedmont's management training landscape: ELEA S.p.A., founded in 1979 by the Olivetti Group, and INFOR, established in 1994 as an independent training body.
Today INFOR ELEA involves over 250 institutional and economic partners, public and private, and is among the leading Italian players in training to support major projects of technological, organizational, cultural and behavioral change within companies. The educational offer covers the entire spectrum of business functions, including Administration & Finance, Control & Auditing, Human Resources, Communication & Leadership, Marketing & Sales, Personal Skills, and Information & Communication Technology, with particular attention in recent years to generative artificial intelligence applied to business.
Main academic areas
Corporate training and professional development in Administration & Finance, HR, Communication, Marketing, ICT
INFOR ELEA statistics and indicators
Employability not applicable: continuous training for companies, not an academic pathway for new graduates. Courses delivered in Italian.
INFOR ELEA's history
INFOR ELEA was born from the merger of two historic institutions in Piedmont's management training landscape: ELEA S.p.A., founded in 1979 by the Olivetti Group, a historic Italian company that pioneered computer science and corporate culture, and INFOR, established in 1994 as an autonomous training body. The Olivetti legacy represents a significant identity element for the organization, which inherited from the Olivetti Group's tradition a particular attention to the cultural and human dimension of corporate change processes, alongside the technical and organizational ones.
Over the years the merger between ELEA and INFOR made it possible to build a training body with a widespread presence across Piedmont, later extended to Rome and Florence, progressively involving over 250 public and private institutional and economic partners. The organization has established itself as a reference point for training to support major technological and organizational transformation projects in Italian companies, in recent years expanding its offer to also include topics of artificial intelligence and corporate sustainability, in continuity with the spirit of innovation that historically characterized the Olivetti Group.
What people say online about INFOR ELEA
Available information is mainly institutional in nature, reflecting the organization's B2B nature.
The historic legacy of the ELEA brand, tied to the Olivetti Group, a historic Italian company that pioneered computer science and humanistic corporate culture, gives the organization a distinctive identity prestige in Piedmont's management training landscape.
The widespread territorial presence, with locations in Turin, Rome, Florence, Asti, Alessandria and Cuneo, and the network of over 250 institutional and economic partners, testify to a solid network of relationships built over time with northwest Italy's production fabric.
- Historic legacy of the Olivetti Group, with attention to the cultural and human dimension of change processes
- Network of over 250 institutional and economic partners, public and private
- Widespread territorial presence with six locations across Piedmont, Rome and Florence
- Educational offer expanded to include generative artificial intelligence applied to business
- Support for accessing funding such as Fondimpresa and regional Piedmont grants
- Little presence of independent reviews from individual students on general-purpose platforms
- Not very relevant for an international student interested in a structured academic pathway, as the model is oriented toward continuous training and consulting for existing companies
FAQ — INFOR ELEA
INFOR ELEA embodies a particular case of entrepreneurial continuity: the legacy of the Olivetti Group, an Italian pioneer in computer science and humanistic corporate culture, today translates into a training model that combines technical expertise with a distinctive attention to the human dimension of corporate change.
