Self Service BI or Shadow IT?

Companies are increasingly recognising the inevitability of Self Service BI (SSBI), but not infrequently they fail to implement it and therefore cannot fully exploit its potential. With this contribution we want to answer the following question: Which factors must be fulfilled so that the cooperation between the central BI organisation and users in the specialist areas - the so-called "power users" - works and both sides benefit from each other?

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What is Robotic Process Automation (RPA)?

Robotic Process Automation, or RPA for short, is a technology that enables companies to automate business processes. It uses software robots that can perform human tasks in digital systems. RPA robots are able to perform repetitive, rule-based and time-consuming tasks by interacting with existing applications, processing data, retrieving information and making decisions.

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Trust culture in the company

Trust is more than a concept or an attitude, it needs to be actively built and nurtured. Most institutions emphasise the importance of trust between staff and with clients in their mission or vision statements. Few, however, have defined the cultivation of a culture of trust as a process and a leadership task. In his contribution, Uwe Rotermund advocates treating trust consistently as a management task and pursuing it systematically and sustainably.

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Adaptive IT - building blocks of an agile organisation

The demands on a "modern" IT organisation have changed fundamentally; in addition to the classic characteristics such as operational stability and provision of current technologies with high cost efficiency, there are additional wishes and expectations driven by the specialist departments and business partners - the immediate implementation of new business ideas in digital products before competitors are faster and secure market shares.

Digitalisation thus places new demands on corporate IT. In addition to its traditional function, it must now play a central role as an enabler of innovative business models.

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SharePoint introduction at SAERTEX multiCom realised completely online

SAERTEX GmbH & Co KG and its subsidiary SAERTEX multiCom GmbH produce technical textiles in Saerbeck, Westphalia, and in a number of locations worldwide. In order to improve cooperation within the group, SAERTEX multiCom initiated the creation of an intranet based on the latest Microsoft SharePoint technology. In the future, all locations and departments of the parent company and subsidiaries will gradually work together on the intranet. In 2022, the Saerbeck-based company successfully implemented the pilot project and opened up new ways of communication and data sharing for its employees. Some departments of the parent company SAERTEX were already involved in the SharePoint set-up from the beginning.
noventum consultants and SAERTEX employees met in person for the first time after the completion of the fully online project.

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noventum Sourcing Day in Düsseldorf

The outsourcing of the complete IT of a medium-sized company as well as the offshoring of the data center operation of a DAX group will be presented by the responsible IT managers of the companies Nowega and Merck at the 1st Noventum Sourcing Day, which will take place on March 25, 2015 from 3 pm at the Mercure Hotel in Düsseldorf. The IT management consultancy noventum consulting, specialist in the field of IT outsourcing, invites CIOs, IT managers, IT purchasers and provider managers to this free information event.

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Key figure controlled data center

Für eine erfolgreiche strategische Unternehmenssteuerung ist die präzise Kenntnis der Fakten in den eigenen Unternehmensabläufen ebenso wichtig wie die statistisch aufbereitete Kenntnis des konkreten Realisierungsgrades qualitativer Unternehmensziele. noventum consulting untersucht, wie Kennzahlensysteme die Steuerung von Rechenzentren und IT-Dienstleistungen unterstützen können.

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Trust and the desire for change

For seven years, noventum consulting has participated with great success in the nationwide "Great Place to Work" competition organized by the Cologne-based institute of the same name. In 2012, noventum employees promoted their employer to first place in the group of companies with up to 500 employees for the third time in the anonymous survey that accompanies every competition participation.

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noventum consulting at the Münster marathon 2012

noventum registered with five relay teams. In addition to our employees, we were also able to win over customers, acquaintances and friends to run with us for a good cause. This year noventum ran for Titus Dittmann's foundation skate-aid, which gives children worldwide a piece of joy and confidence through skateboarding.

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Secure multi-client capability through Microsoft Active Directory

As it is known, in a Microsoft infrastructure, access to resources, data as well as applications is controlled via Active Directory (AD). Depending on how complex the business structures mapped are, AD not only controls access at 1:1, but also describes the different levels of the trust relationship between individual domains. A mostly complex system that reflects the inner dynamics of a company like a mirror image.

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