SAP-Solution: technologie

Female programmers, IT specialist or IT systems electronics engineer—female job titles are still the exception in the tech industry. After all, among IT specialists in IT and telecommunications companies, only one in twenty is a woman.

Despite the pressure to digitize, many companies are delaying the move toward Industry 4.0. Now, of all things, the current crisis could provide new impetus and momentum.

Especially in a global crisis, IT decision-makers need to implement business-critical applications quickly. However, technology is only part of the picture.

What is most important when implementing artificial intelligence? Most companies would guess technology - and disregard another, equally important factor.

It is often external influences that force an organization to adopt new technologies and innovate. Covid-19 may be one such influence. If such a game-changing event doesn't drive us to change, what will?

Even though many have already arrived in the new year, the question remains as to which IT trends will occupy us in 2020. The magic words are edge computing, blockchain and software-based virtualization.

On the one hand, digital transformation means increasing efficiency and minimizing costs, growth, and competitiveness; on the other hand, it demands modernization within the company's own ranks.

Data center and IT infrastructure modernization is an imperative for business success. Fifty-seven percent of companies are currently modernizing their IT to best support business innovations in the coming years - on-premises and in the cloud.

Only a minority of German IT bosses think their company is already working in an agile manner, as Citrix found out in a recent survey.

A bolder, immersive version of IT will drive a new set of innovations and inventions in the future, Forrester predicts.

According to a recent study by the Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln, four out of ten German medium-sized industrial companies are intensively involved with blockchain technology.

In complex companies, CFOs need more technology to make decisions effectively, in addition to a functioning strategy. This gives CFOs a more active role in shaping strategy and corporate governance.