According to the EU Commission, too much information is still only shared in an analogue manner within the company.
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Brussels Germany is making headway with digitization – but only slowly. This is the result of the EU Commission’s annual “Desi” survey, a kind of digital “fitness test” for the 27 EU countries. Germany finished eleventh in this test, last year it was twelfth.
The German index value of 54.1 is just above the EU average of 50.7. In terms of growth in this value, too, Germany is just above the average.
Compared to the top group, however, Germany seems left behind. The best digitized countries also make the greatest progress and are increasingly leaving the middle field behind. This is especially true for Denmark, which overtook Finland and Sweden and is now in first place. Ireland has also developed a lot.
This top group is ahead of China, Japan and South Korea, said a Commission official, but still behind the United States.
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However, the effects of reforms during the corona pandemic are still hardly included in the figures. It is to be expected that the numbers will move a lot in the coming year.
The EU Commission has been collecting the data since 2014. They also serve as the basis for the plan to catch up with the world’s best technology by 2030.
The index evaluates 33 criteria in the areas of human capital, connectivity, integration of digital technology in the economy and digital public services.
Germany is doing relatively well Human capital there:
- 70 percent have at least basic digital skills (EU average: 56 percent). Also, a slightly above average number of companies offer further training and there are more graduates in the IT sector.
In the Connectivity Germany is also ahead of the average:
- 92 percent of households use broadband internet access (EU average: 77 percent). However, Germany lags behind when it comes to connections with at least 100 Mbit / s.
- 100 percent of the 5G frequencies were allocated (EU average: 51 percent). This means that expansion can take place more quickly than in other countries.
The German administration lags behind other administrations. However, companies shouldn’t feel this too much:
- For when it comes to digital public services for companies, Germany is doing quite well with 88 out of 100 points (EU average: 84 points). Citizens, on the other hand, have fewer opportunities to communicate digitally with the administration. Nevertheless, there are more e-government users than in other EU countries.
The biggest problems are within the Companies:
- Only 18 percent of companies send invoices electronically (EU average: 32 percent).
- Only 29 percent use ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software for internal resource planning (EU average: 36 percent).
- Only 20 percent use cloud services (EU average: 26 percent).
In the last few years there has been hardly any improvement in invoices and resource planning in Germany, according to the report of the commission.
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