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17. December 2025

Core banking migration at Sparda-Bank West: Successful switch to the Atruvia core banking system

noventum supports Sparda Bank in preparing key transition steps.

Sparda-Bank West has successfully completed its migration to Atruvia's agree21 core banking system. For one of the largest institutions in the Sparda Group, the change meant a comprehensive technical and organisational transformation. noventum consulting was involved in selected areas of responsibility and supported the bank in preparing key transition steps.

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30. October 2025

The Chamber of Skilled Crafts South Westphalia is establishing a modern SharePoint-based intranet.

The South Westphalia Chamber of Crafts found a sound solution to this problem – as part of its digital transformation, it introduced a modern intranet based on Microsoft SharePoint Online. The aim was to improve internal communication in the long term while also making document management more efficient. In collaboration with noventum, a platform was quickly developed that enables centralized document management, structures internal communication, and consistently takes into account the chamber's heterogeneous user landscape.

07. August 2025

From IT strategy to implementation – success factors and challenges of international IT transitions

International IT transitions rarely fail because of technology – but rather because of culture, communication and expectations. Setting up tech hubs in India, Poland or Romania can address the shortage of IT specialists, but it also brings complex challenges. How can knowledge be transferred sustainably, employees avoid being overworked and intercultural teams be brought together successfully? Using specific projects, this article shows which success factors really matter – and why genuine collaboration requires more than just tools and processes.

04. August 2025

Power BI and Microsoft Business Central: Efficient data integration for modern analytics

Integrated data analytics are indispensable for companies today. The combination of Microsoft Business Central and Power BI offers a flexible, powerful solution for analysing central ERP data. Business Central covers core processes such as finance, purchasing and warehousing and is deeply integrated into Microsoft 365. This article highlights how a direct connection can be established, what advantages it offers and where the challenges lie.

28. July 2025

"Chat with your data" – the new reality?

What if you could simply ask your data model: "Why is the contribution margin of product group XYZ so low?" - and get a well-founded answer? GenAI and tools like Claude, Copilot & Co. promise exactly that. But how well does it really work? And what does this mean for data experts, power users and governance? An experience report between fascination and responsibility by data & analytics expert Marco Nielinger.

22. July 2025

More than technology: How companies with vision, culture and expertise achieve AI maturity

Many companies are faced with the challenge of integrating artificial intelligence into their organisation in a meaningful way - between the pressure to innovate, limited resources and cultural resistance. There is often a lack of strategic direction, targeted skills development for employees and an environment that promotes learning. Without a clear interplay between leadership, culture, governance and qualification, well-intentioned initiatives risk failing before they have a chance to take effect.

13. June 2025

Innovation through design thinking: Schmitz Cargobull sets new standards in product development

Technological progress that offers customers real added value and ambitious goals in terms of environmental justice are among the key drivers of innovative product development at Schmitz Cargobull. With the aerodynamic semi-trailers of the EcoGeneration, the Münsterland-based vehicle manufacturer is already a pioneer in environmentally friendly transport solutions. Rene Knüpper, Head of Product Development "General Cargo" at the central site in Altenberge, developed a design thinking workshop concept with consultants from noventum consulting to give his product development team impetus for a dynamic and customer-orientated approach.

27. May 2025

Chat GPT leads to project success – artificial intelligence supports ETL modernisation at nwb Verlag

nwb Verlag has been a valued customer of noventum for many years. In the publishing house's BI landscape, it worked classically with SQL Server, SSIS and SSAS - in our established DWH layer model, but not yet with the noventum Data Platform Accelerator (nDPA) and therefore with inflexible, layer-based loading via nested SSIS packages. The aim of a current project was to introduce the nDPA Orchestrator in order to modernise existing ETL processes and make them more flexible. However, before the orchestrator could begin its work, a tedious task had to be completed: the dependency analysis of around 500 SSIS packages.

19. May 2025

Shaping the future through agile working: How the Münster Economic Development Agency is successfully developing its organization

Corporate management and teamwork, the core business and the business world are subject to constant change. A challenging bundle of changes that is complex and needs to be understood and organised. This mix of requirements is currently keeping many organisations busy. This also applies to Wirtschaftsförderung Münster GmbH (WFM), which is focussing on targeted change and the future.

noventum supports Sparda Bank in preparing key transition steps.

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