Beste IT-Dienstleister 2021

Ranked for the first time in only the second year of the survey

In fall 2019, the first issue of the new brand eins series on digitization was published with the aim of accompanying entrepreneurs and companies on their way to digitization. Even though the term had long been a buzzword at the time, it was still inevitably a foreign word or a closed book for many companies in this country.

Just one year later, the starting situation seems completely different – for companies as well as for society. Due to the Corona crisis, we have become more digital by necessity. We have set up home offices and learned to work predominantly remotely, communicate virtually and without major disruptions, and skillfully use new tools and techniques. All of this is also because most companies have upgraded in terms of digitization and are now much better positioned in terms of hardware, software and cloud services than they were before the crisis.

However, brand eins asks the legitimate question of whether companies have become better, faster and more efficient as a result; in other words, whether the virus can really be understood as a kind of “technology turbo,” as consultants and observers often claim. brand eins author Thomas Ramge has his doubts and questions above all whether the respective corporate cultures have been able to keep pace with the technological leap. He also does not see all IT service providers as winners in this respect.

In contrast, Statista has now investigated for the second time for brand eins which IT service providers companies in this country are in good hands with. Almost 5,800 experts – including 2,878 experts from the IT service providers themselves and 2,896 customers – took part in the survey and selected a total of 230 companies as the best IT service providers in Germany.

We are delighted to have found our place among Germany’s best IT service providers in only the second year of the survey. This is all the more gratifying because the survey – as is usual with the rankings by brand eins and Statista – is based roughly half on the recommendations of experts and half on those of customers. Since providers are not allowed to nominate themselves, the award-winning IT service providers must have a good reputation on the market and at the same time enjoy a high level of customer trust.

IT consulting: part of Consileon's DNA

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As a medium-sized management and IT consultancy, Consileon has been supporting customers from various industries since 2001. IT development and consulting is an essential part of Consileon’s DNA. In addition to classic software development projects, Consileon also supports IT projects such as digital marketing and virtual reality, IT security, artificial intelligence , commission accounting systems, and quality and efficiency audits .

Consileon employs 450 people at 16 locations in Germany and other European countries. The combination of consulting and IT implementation in the Consileon Group leads to sustainable corporate growth.

Consileon Products: How Business Leadership Succeeds in the New Normal

Rarely in history has an event influenced economic development as much as the Corona pandemic. Due to the necessary lockdown, many companies were only able to operate on the market to a very limited extent or not at all. Consileon is a fair partner in the crisis and at the same time has distinctive topic expertise. Thanks to an effective combination of services, we succeed in making companies fit for the time after the pandemic.

Remote Company Management

Even before Covid set out to change our world, a variety of trends toward a more digital world of work were emerging. But in March 2020, many companies were forced to adapt to the new conditions. What was expected to be an epochal shift is likely to become the new normal.

A complete return to the “old” (working) world will probably not happen. We are all heading toward a hybrid working world in which presence and remote coexist. Employees and employers have recognized the advantages and want to retain them. But it’s not that simple: corporate management and employee leadership must be brought into the digital space and optimized for it.

Digital application process

In order to learn the principles and practices of agile software development not only in theory, the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Nuremberg-Erlangen offers students the AMOS (agile methods and open software) course. In this course, students gain insights into software development as it is actually used in the free economy. In this course, students implement a software project in practice together with a selected industry partner. Over the course of a semester, Consileon supervised a multinational team of five students in the implementation of digitact, a recruiting app tailored to Consileon’s requirements. The app was developed as open source software in weekly sprints with regular feedback rounds with the participation of Consileon and is now to be used at our company. By completely digitizing the application process, not only applicants, but also HR staff, save unnecessary paper. This simplifies the entire application process and protects the environment at the same time.

Consileon as a partner in the digital transformation

Digital transformation not only requires new ways of working and new methods, it also requires a completely new mindset among managers and employees. Changing markets and conditions elicit very different reactions from decision-makers and employees. While executives want to react faster and more flexibly, employees tend to want more structure and clear rules or stability. Consileon is already supporting numerous companies in the challenge of anchoring a new, digital mindset in the company and thus creating the conditions for the digital transformation and for successful future digitization projects.

Consileon also supports companies in the evaluation of their digitization projects. As part of a digital due diligence, the feasibility and profitability of a digitization project is examined. Consileon thus helps companies reduce risks and strengthen investment decisions in digital technologies. Consileon’s digital due diligence goes beyond the evaluation of a company’s IT capital, as not only the running systems are examined, but also the potential of the entire company to implement digital projects economically.

Numerous Consileon projects are also anchored in the area of digitalization of mobility. In the wake of megatrends such as individualization, digitization and urbanization, the social requirements for mobility concepts have also changed. One measure to meet these changed requirements is Smart Mobility. The aim here is to expand existing mobility offerings for users with the help of digitization and to offer them in a way that conserves resources and is cost-effective. These offers and new mobility concepts include, for example, real-time traffic reports and shared mobility concept (e.g., car sharing, rental bicycles, rentable electric scooters).