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Dark patterns are interface designs specifically designed to deceive. They trick users into performing certain actions that they did not intend and that may be contrary to their interests. In this blog post, I demonstrate the power of UX design.

IT and business come together to form a value creation system in which the democratisation of technology is shifting the areas of responsibility and new processes and organisational structures are emerging. At the same time, there is an opportunity for a new culture of cooperation. I explain how this all ties together in my blog post.

Digitalisation is on everyone’s lips. Everyone is talking about it. My perception, however, is that we usually talk about digitalisation in far too abstract a way and forget what is happening at a more concrete level. The ideas of digital material from the field of digital design offer a nice alternative way to talk about digitalisation.

With its software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, the SAP Sales Cloud, SAP offers a cloud-based customer relationship management system that is supposed to improve the relationship between a company and its customers. I explain what this is all about in my blog post.

Lots of people still have reservations when it comes to transitioning to the cloud, especially when the conversation turns to the issue of data security. Complete transparency is an important promise that Microsoft makes to its customers, which is a crucial milestone in the right direction towards building a meaningful position of trust. In my blog post, I would like to give you an overview of the current efforts that Microsoft is making with regard to its cloud.

In the context of cloud strategies, terms such as cloud native, multi-cloud and cloud agnostic are often used. In my blog post, I classify these terms and show the consequences for companies.

In recent months, there have been many innovations in the market for self-service BI tools. In this way, innovative software products are making it possible to expand the user base of analytics applications. Our customers have also become aware of this development, which has led to us being commissioned to carry out a corresponding tool comparison. In our blog post, we would like to briefly describe the procedure used for this tool evaluation and then present the data preparation tools from the shortlist (Alteryx, Trifacta and Microsoft Power BI Dataflows) in more detail.

Agile approaches are now very widely accepted. Scrum is often used as a framework and fixed events (meetings) are specified, among other things. Projects in the insurance industry often employ an agile approach, too. Despite that, employees and stakeholders sometimes harbour prejudices. I used to be project controller in a previous life, during which time I was involved in an agile project and was confronted with prejudices at the beginning. In my blog post, I would like to talk about prejudices and my own practical experiences regarding agile approaches based on Scrum.

Many companies are launching digitalisation projects right now, partly driven by the Covid-19 pandemic and partly by advances in technology. But where is the best place to get started? The digital maturity check is a great first step to uncovering the potential and new opportunities of digitalisation at a company and can serve as the starting point for new projects based on insights gained during the check. In my blog post, I will take a closer look at the digital maturity check.