Blogs & Articles
Practical insights, best practices and expert tips
AI as a game changer – new opportunities for almost every industry
Artificial intelligence offers great potential for identifying complex correlations in data and thus automating processes. AI tools can provide valuable services in many industries, as they are computer-based and self-learning, enabling them to solve a variety of problems. Expert Matthias Puhr from DCCS explains the possibilities that AI opens up.
Competitive and fit for the future with digital services
They allow companies to open up new revenue streams while establishing a competitive advantage for themselves. Fully digitalised processes and linked business areas along the value creation chain are the basis for smart services and digital add-on services for products. DCCS´s Christian Krenn and Thomas Brandstätter explain why digital services set trends.
AI in industry: Turbocharging productivity and quality
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer future vision, but a reality that offers great potential for the manufacturing industry, increasing productivity and quality while reducing costs. In this context, AI supported process digitalisation and automation play just as important a role as the use of artificial intelligence in production and quality assurance. In this Blog, Matthias Puhr, Data Scientist at DCCS, offers insights into the specific applications of AI for industrial companies and highlights factors important to making sure AI projects deliver the desired business value.
Core Software: Superhero or problem child for your business?
Most companies use many software systems and if these are outdated, they usually deal with an equal number of worries. That's not exactly what we IT experts have promised the world. Sadly, it’s a fact that software is always hyper-modern, powerful and extremely helpful for business processes at the time of its introduction. But when it starts growing a beard, it can no longer sufficiently support current business requirements.
Core Software Revival: On the fear of failure and how to overcome it
After having dealt with the terms “core software” and the question of when a "revival” is required in our first Blog entry, we would like to delve into even more sensitive topics this time. Today, we are looking at fears and risks connected with Core Software Revivals. Modernising core software, after all, is a challenge – not least because large parts of your business depend on the core systems’ availability. Fears of failing are therefore understandable.
Core Software Revival - Practice Insights
In Blog 1 we have clarified what Core Software Revival means and if you have answered our questions, you now know whether or not core application modernisation is a relevant topic in your company. Blog 2 shows how a proven procedural model and step-by-step modernisation using a business value first approach helps professionally tackling this. The 3rd and final part of our series of Blogs will be fully dedicated to practical implementation. And since tight meshing of business & IT is a significant success factor in Core Software Revival projects, I have asked my colleague, Senior Business Consultant Roland Bäck, to share a few practical insights with you. To this end, we will answer questions customers from various industries regularly ask us in relation with Core Software Revivals and shed light on aspects of business and IT modernisation.
Mobile Business Apps
In a world dominated by mobile technologies, the use of mobile apps has long since evolved from a mere trend to an indispensable part of our everyday lives. Whether we want to spend our time on social networks, track our fitness goals or simply find the nearest restaurant, there's an app for everything. But mobile apps are no longer just a must for companies in the consumer sector. The importance of apps has also grown exponentially in recent years in the B2B sector and therefore for corporate customers as well as for internal company processes. And for good reason, as mobile apps also offer numerous advantages for customers and companies in the B2B sector.
Successfully implementing digital procurement
There are lots of software tools designed to simplify procurement. However, all of them are worthless without the right strategy. You need a holistic approach to successfully implement digital procurement. What can this approach look like? What strategy is needed? Why are processes vital? What follows is an overview of the most significant steps.
Next Step - Digitisation of the withholding tax process 50a EStG
Ensuring tax compliance is one of the main jobs of tax officers. Tax Technology is the digital tool that helps them to transparently process tax-related cases and to document them in a tamper-proof fashion. While some taxes have been in the focus of TaxTech solutions and tax departments for some time, withholding tax has long been neglected. Since tax auditors have started looking at withholding tax submissions, however, digital solutions for the processing of complex withholding tax cases have been in higher demand.
