What makes candidates become industry champions?

How can growth be achieved through digital transformation?

Companies in the capital goods industry in particular must rely on digital technologies if they want to remain successful. Processes are being further developed or completely rethought. This is triggered by an increasing variety of products coupled with the high expectations of B2B customers.

But what makes aspirants become industry champions? It is probably easier to shed light on what prevents aspirants from developing into champions. After all, they also rely on innovative tools and process digitization. However, the problem is often that applications exist in parallel and in isolation from each other within the company, creating so-called data silos. The result is an opaque system landscape with an enormous maintenance effort. This also increases the potential for incomplete or outdated data records to be made available to stakeholders. Industry champions are aware of this risk and therefore focus on consistency in their process and system landscape. Relevant data must be exchanged automatically, sustainably and multidimensionally between applications. This requires a high level of connectivity and performance of the individual applications in the IT system landscapes. The SAE CPQ platform follows precisely this philosophy and has a modular and flexible structure. It enables simple connection of systems and acts as a connector between the central applications – ERP, PIM, PLM, CRM through to CAD and E-CAD software solutions. Find out more here: Interfaces | APIs