Digitalization Archives

Finance: What are the top 3 challenges IT decision makers must overcome in 2016?

by Sören Schulte | 18.12.2015 | Business Trends, Industry

The year draws to a close. Not only the increasing regulatory demands at national, European and international level have been presenting challenges on banks and financial institutions in the past year; customer expectations and their communication methods have also fundamentally changed. But which are the challenges that CIOs and IT managers have to expect in the coming year?

Tags: Banking // Digitalization // Finance // Trends 2016

BITKOM Study: Digitalization as an Opportunity?

by Sabrina Hiller | 11.12.2015 | Business Trends

While BITKOM confirms that 95 percent of all companies see digitalization as providing opportunities, many companies still have great difficulties in implementing their digital strategies. But in order to remain competitive over the long term in the age of digital transformation, companies urgently need to implement a holistic digital strategy which takes changes in technology, competition and staffing requirements into consideration.

Tags: BITKOM // Digitalization // hub conference // Study

Digitalization: Opportunity or risk for banks and insurers?

by Sabrina Hiller | 16.11.2015 | Business Trends, News

In view of strict regulatory requirements, low-interest politics and intense cost pressure many finance institutes are neglecting a crucial challenge – the ever accelerating progress of digitalization. However, in order to fulfill the individual needs of their customers and to stay competitive over the long term, banks should start to develop appropriate digital strategies as quickly as possible.

M2M and A2P SMS: Business communication between applications, people and machines

by Sören Schulte | 12.11.2015 | News, Product News

Messenger services aside: communicating via SMS continues to enjoy a very high degree of popularity in everyday business. As practical as SMS may be as a notification channel, like any other means of communication it only really develops its full potential when used as a tool for dialogue. When using Retarus SMS to Applications, for instance, incoming short messages are automatically pushed into the corresponding business application.