Digital Strategy Consulting
Part of our end-to-end offering is consultancy on sustainable digital and data strategy, which, for example, supports industrial companies in further developing their business models, utilising existing data to create added value, and digitising their products themselves. Materna helps clients to explore ways of innovating their own business models and positioning themselves for the future. Using agile methods, Materna acts as a consultant and architect for data-driven and digital business models, processes and services.
As innovation and sustainability often go hand in hand, Materna also provides support on sustainability through consultancy and strategy development. From next year, for example, thousands of companies will be required to produce CSR reports. In this context, data and data quality are crucial in terms of accuracy, consistency and context to ensure successful reporting. This presents companies with the opportunity to utilise and establish ESG data as a key planning tool for long-term and sustainable growth.
Supply Chain Optimisation
Digitalisation has taken hold in the logistics sector. The Materna Group is addressing this with myleo / dsc, its own Process-as-a-Service solution for logistics and supply chain management. The platform simplifies logistics processes and manages supply chain networks in real time. “We have invested a double-digit million sum in the development of myleo / dsc. With this cloud-based solution, we are providing our logistics clients with significant support in making their supply chains more resilient,” reports Martin Wibbe. André Käber, founder of myleo / dsc, adds: “Our solution organises and automates the operational mapping of plant and transport logistics processes on a digital platform. This creates complete transparency throughout the entire supply chain, reduces the risks of disruption and improves collaboration between all supply chain partners.” All logistics processes can be customised. Companies such as Nordzucker, CropEnergies and home24 are already successfully using myleo / dsc in their logistics operations.
Digital Experience
Forward-looking companies offer their customers a consistent, personalised customer experience across all touchpoints. The foundation of a seamless customer experience is a central data platform and data architecture that maintains the customer history across all touchpoints, breaking down silos. The various silos can be integrated using a master data model. Materna implements complex, transactional integration solutions. A key objective of the solutions implemented is to ensure that the technical complexity involved in seamlessly orchestrating people and systems remains hidden from end customers.
Employee Experience
Skills shortages, the war for talent and demographic change have become widespread challenges for many companies. Digital Industry Solutions comprise a holistic offering for industrial companies, enabling them to find suitable staff faster than the competition, and provide HR managers with appropriate solution modules throughout the entire employee journey. The employee journey ranges from recruitment, retention and onboarding to the further training and development of staff. The offering includes, amongst other things, media consultancy, media production, digital learning and change communication using modern technologies. In addition to its own consultancy services and solutions, Materna will in future also incorporate services from partners into its offering, for example in the fields of deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI), as well as machine learning solutions for the HR sector, such as AI-based active sourcing. Deep learning (DL) helps HR departments to process large volumes of data using neural networks.
Software Factory as the backbone
At the heart of the digitalisation offering is the high-performance Software Factory, which has access to around 1,500 software developers in Germany and at nearshore locations within the Materna Group. This is where bespoke and often business-critical IT applications are developed based on high-performance cloud architectures. At the centre of this is the holistic Journey2Cloud offering, a modular package comprising consultancy and implementation services for all phases of a company’s transformation to the cloud.
Core IT competencies round off Digital Industry Solutions
Digital Industry Solutions are complemented, amongst other things, by a holistic cyber security offering. The most important component is Materna’s own Security Operations Centre (SOC). Just a few weeks ago, Materna further expanded its SOC offering by acquiring Radar Cyber Security, an established SOC specialist with over 100 clients. This makes the Materna Group the leading cyber security provider in the DACH region, offering an end-to-end portfolio comprising consultancy, analysis, proprietary software assets and services, whilst supporting companies in establishing a cyber resilience strategy.
Efficient digital workflows are at the heart of enterprise service management and are integral to modern industrial companies. Materna is the market-leading service provider for technologies from BMC, Micro Focus and ServiceNow, with well over 1,000 successfully completed client projects, several hundred service management specialists and the highest possible partner status in each case.
In addition, Materna operates the solutions, applications and services it has developed from a single source (hybrid, private and public cloud) – and, on request, also in its own data centre.
There is a synergistic collaboration with the subsidiaries belonging to the Materna Group: cbs Corporate Business Solutions (SAP consultancy for global enterprise solutions) and Trebing + Himstedt (consultants for digital transformation towards smart factories). With around 1,100 employees, cbs implements solutions for global and digital end-to-end business processes and draws on experience gained from more than 3,000 international projects.
About Materna
The Materna Group delivers sustainable IT and digitalisation projects for clients including large corporations, SMEs and public authorities. With more than 3,500 employees worldwide, Materna generated a turnover of 433 million euros (2021). Its expertise and capabilities are organised across nine focus areas. Materna has held a market-leading position in the focus areas of Digital Administration, Enterprise Service Management and Passenger Journey for many years. Through its focus areas of SAP Transformation, Journey2Cloud™ and Cyber Security, Materna offers solutions to the most pressing challenges currently facing virtually all sectors. In the focus areas of Digital Experience, Sustainability & Resilience, and Data Economy, Materna provides solutions that enable clients to position themselves for the long term in a sustainable and value-adding manner.
