E3 Category: Mag 22-06

Home office, flexible working hours and new forms of collaboration: The modernization and digitalization of the working world have accelerated further in the corona pandemic.

In the awards of the "Great Place to Work" institute, the Henrichsen Group can boast successes in three categories, making it one of the best German workplaces.

The business climate in the digital industry improved noticeably in April. This is due to full order books at companies in the IT and telecommunications sector.

More and more companies are turning to the support of a digital twin when planning new production facilities and supply chains or when expanding or improving old logistics concepts.

Platform provider Como relies on SAP Fioneer's Cloud for Banking (C4B) application. This gives the Luxembourg-based PayTech's customers direct access to real-time payment processing and a cost reduction of up to 60 percent.

Time and again, SAP developers look askance at technologies that exist in the non-SAP sector. But that doesn't have to be the case: Thanks to modern platforms and open source, they have a wide range of tools at their disposal.

The SAP community remains skeptical: Even the first survey of the SAP community in 2021 indicated that the big "move" from SAP ECC 6.0 to S/4 Hana in the cloud via the "Rise with SAP" initiative would not be so easily communicated.

Digitization is an important means for areas such as accounting and controlling to cope with the growing volume of data. Sonepar thought so, too.

Awareness of the importance of adequate IT security measures is increasing worldwide, but so is the risk of a cyber attack - and few are actually equipped to deal with it.

The cloud market is bustling with activity. Not least due to the entry of the Schwarz Group - parent company of the Lidl discount chain - the market is facing changes.

The majority of IT decision-makers in Germany believe that the issue of cybersecurity has taken a back seat in digital business initiatives over the past year.

Retail is in a state of flux, and in addition to technology-driven trends, the focus is currently shifting to sustainability in all areas. Retailers must react and make their businesses more sustainable.