E3 Category: Manager Magazine 2022

As a start-up at the University of Karlsruhe (now KIT), Simus Systems focused as early as 2002 on the structuring, quality improvement and findability of master data originating from product development and used throughout the company via ERP.

52 percent of companies in Germany say that competitors in their own industry who were early adopters of digitization are now ahead of them.

Data literacy is relevant to all sectors - and yet it is in short supply.

Cost rates for managed services in the IT services market remain stable despite recent wage increases for IT professionals. In many cases, they are even continuing to decline.

Life is hard and unfair. After the pandemic and before the next wave of coronas, it should have been a glittering anniversary: SAP is fifty years young! But the condition is like that of a centenarian - fragile, undifferentiated, and without vision.

After a decline in 2020, the consulting market is regaining its old strength despite Covid-19. The top 20 German consultants grew by 16.6 percent in 2021.

The current economic and political upheavals are pushing companies to their limits. The companies that are well positioned are those that have transparent processes in the supply chain.

Since the end of the Privacy Shield agreement, there has been considerable legal uncertainty for data transfers. A new agreement is now intended to restore legal certainty.

Data scientists are currently hard to find on the job market: 96 percent of companies have difficulty filling vacancies.

The constant change in the business world is putting increasing pressure on companies to optimize their processes. Today, however, optimization in terms of factors such as costs, efficiency and agility is only a solid basis for complete end-to-end process optimization.

Supply chain management is an organizational and technical challenge in the shadow of ERP - which is not justified. The current shutdowns, interstate conflicts and diverging economic interest show the high importance of supply chain management. Without specific IT support, the structure and process organization of a supply chain can no longer be handled

Digital transformation has been a concern for companies not just since the start of the pandemic. Only with the right technologies and an understanding of business processes can digitization offer real added value.