{"id":33600,"date":"2018-02-12T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=33600"},"modified":"2022-05-01T09:44:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T07:44:22","slug":"a-question-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/a-question-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"A question of money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the survey, other obstacles to digitalization are a lack of time (15 percent) and mature technologies (15 percent). In contrast, a lack of qualifications or commitment on the part of employees is only a minor obstacle:<\/p>\n<p>Only eight percent of SMEs cited a lack of employee knowledge as the biggest challenge and only seven percent a lack of planning. This is in stark contrast to large German companies: For them, the lack of employee qualifications is the biggest challenge (25 percent).<\/p><div id=\"great-2348306272\" class=\"great-fullsize-content-en\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6yfv7eho3Gc\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Fullsize\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fullsize\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-400x50.jpg 400w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-100x13.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-480x60.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-640x80.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-720x90.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-960x120.jpg 960w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-1168x146.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-18x2.jpg 18w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-600x75.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"150\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Although the majority of SMEs have long been convinced of the importance of digital transformation, only three percent of the companies surveyed internationally have already completed cross-company transformation projects.<\/p>\n<p>The financing of digital transformation projects remains in the hands of the financial sector for the majority of SMEs in Germany (88%). More than half (57%) see the greatest advantage of digitalization in the next two years in bringing new products to market faster. This is followed by increased brand awareness (39%) and the development of new products and services.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than one-fifth (21 percent) of SMEs see a lack of budget as the biggest obstacle on their path to digitization. This was the finding of an international study commissioned by SAP.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":36761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20361],"tags":[601],"coauthors":[19920],"class_list":["post-33600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sap-nachrichten","category-mag-1802","tag-digitalisierung","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329.jpg",1000,452,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329.jpg",400,181,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329-768x347.jpg",768,347,true],"large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329.jpg",1000,452,false],"image-100":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329-100x45.jpg",100,45,true],"image-480":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329-480x217.jpg",480,217,true],"image-640":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329-640x289.jpg",640,289,true],"image-720":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329-720x325.jpg",720,325,true],"image-960":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329-960x434.jpg",960,434,true],"image-1168":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329.jpg",1000,452,false],"image-1440":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329.jpg",1000,452,false],"image-1920":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329.jpg",1000,452,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329.jpg",1000,452,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329.jpg",1000,452,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329.jpg",18,8,false],"bricks_large_16x9":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329.jpg",1000,452,false],"bricks_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329.jpg",1000,452,false],"bricks_large_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329.jpg",1000,452,false],"bricks_medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329.jpg",600,271,false],"bricks_medium_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329.jpg",600,271,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutterstock_409628329-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Mehr als ein F\u00fcnftel (21 Prozent) der Mittelst\u00e4ndler sehen fehlendes Budget als das gr\u00f6\u00dfte Hindernis auf ihrem Weg zur Digitalisierung. Das ergab eine internationale Studie im Auftrag von SAP.<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/category\/sap-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Community Nachrichten<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/category\/mag-1802\/\" rel=\"category tag\">MAG 18-02<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"E-3 Magazine","url":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/author\/e-3-magazin\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33600"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=33600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}