With the beginning of industrialization, automation also found its way into many companies. Routine business processes such as accounts payable or order management could be made more efficient with the help of automation tools. Even industry-specific functions – such as claims management for insurance companies or lending for banks – can now get by with…
A successful digitalization strategy of companies needs adequate cybersecurity. From this, it can be deduced that a cybersecurity strategy must be digital and must be based on the business model and digitization. And because the dynamics of digitization are high, the connection between these two subject areas is all the more critical. In its special…
Employees in a company click “Submit” many times a day. This applies to the executive suite as well as to the trainees. That little click is made so quickly that we are not always aware of the risks involved. However, the affair surrounding the revelations of former CIA employee Edward Snowden and the constant news…
On the first weekend in July, one of the largest hacker attacks in recent years started. The attack on the US IT service provider Kaseya, whose software served the attackers as a gateway to over 1,000 companies worldwide. As a result, 800 supermarket branches in Sweden had to close for several days. A few days…
Another day at home. Homeschooling never ends for the student body. For more than a year now, home-based teaching has been taking place. On the one hand, this is a big problem, since it is difficult to regain a lack of social skills and specialist knowledge. On the other hand, luck is bad luck. Throughout…
Artificial intelligence, social media, self-driving cars, and tools to alter genes in your garage – even the most optimistic futurists already recognize that some technologies have the potential to evolve towards a point of no return. From this point of irreversibility, predicting how technological advances will be used or what unintended consequences might occur becomes…
Buy a new smartphone? So far, it has been more a question of money and personal taste. But since the chip crisis, time has also become an essential factor. Often it is no longer so easy to get hold of popular models from major manufacturers. If you want a particular flagship, you have to be…
Companies from the pharmaceutical sector are faced with the challenge of agreeing on the individualization of their products and the flexibility of their manufacturing processes. Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the pharmaceutical industry is more focused than almost any other industry. Therefore, it is necessary that the handling of customers, internal databases and processes,…
The prices of a new iPhone like to ridicule the Android camp. One hears again and again about an “Apple tax.” But it’s not that simple after all. In some ways, the iPhone 13 Pro is even a better deal than the Galaxy S21 + (for review) – at least when it comes to the…
The corona pandemic – and above all, the home office boom associated with it – has proven to be a real cloud driver over the past 12 months. Today more companies than ever adopt a cloud-first approach and prefer cloud deployment options to traditional on-premises solutions. As the current State of Cloud Report 2021 shows,…
