msg has drawn up a report on the digital modularization of the concept of income on behalf of the German National Regulatory Control Council (NKR) together with the Ruhr University Bochum. At a hybrid event with around 200 participants from politics, business , science and media, representatives of the NKR and the IT planning council discussed specific solution approaches on how to accelerate the digitalization of the administration.
In various administrative matters, citizens must provide specific data, such as income, to obtain government benefits. What is meant by "income" often varies greatly from one procedure to the next. This not only creates uncertainty on the part of the applicants, but also creates additional processing work on the part of the authorities.
The concept of income is one example that makes clear the necessity to take stock of the body of law with regard to its digital suitability “To make once-only a reality and to enable a multi-procedural exchange of data, the digital suitability of the existing body of law must be improved. There must be a mandatory digital suitability check of laws as early as the legislative process.” The focus of this digital suitability check should be on the reuse of well-defined legal term modules and on the creation of necessary process flowcharts for processes whose implementation requires specific data fields, interfaces and technical procedures
Werner Achtert, manager Public Sector at msg: “IT architecture should be incorporated into the legislative process. Only then can important technical issues be considered right from the start. This saves a lot of time and effort later on.”
For more information, go to the current news from the Regulatory Control Council and in the report ”Digital administration requires digitally suitable laws“ (only available in German).
Munich, 21st June 2021. For the third time in a row, msg achieves sixth place in the Lünendonk ranking of the “Leading IT Consulting and System Integration Companies in Germany”. The ranking lists the 25 largest international and German providers of IT consulting services according to their annual sales figures. It thus provides an overview of the major players in the German market for IT consulting and system integration.
The demand for IT services has not decreased in the corona pandemic year of 2020, but is below the level of the previous year. The companies surveyed in the Lünendonk study recorded average growth of 4.9 percent (down from 10.0 percent in the previous year). 65 percent of the IT service providers were able to increase their sales in 2020, which was achieved by 82 percent of them in 2019.
Digitalization in the public sector is a major driver
Companies sought the support of external IT consultants especially for cloud transformation, cyber security, the setup of e-commerce solutions and also general IT modernization. While the demand for IT services from the two most important sectors “Industry” and “Financial Services” remained almost constant compared to 2019, the IT service providers surveyed significantly increased their business in the retail sector and the public sector. “At msg, we also saw an increase in orders, especially in the public sector,” commented msg’s chairman of the board Dr. Stephan Frohnhoff. “In this area, we achieved sales growth of 30 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year.”
Besides the sales figures generated in Germany, Lünendonk also records the development of the corresponding employee figures. Here, numbers increased by an average of 4.5 percent compared to the previous year. msg is above the average here with a headcount increase of 6.1 percent. “Lünendonk’s results confirm our positive business figures and show that we have made the right strategic decisions,” says Stephan Frohnhoff. “We are proud to have held on to our place within the top 10 in the well-known Lünendonk ranking in these pandemic times.“
Further information about the ranking of the “Leading 25 IT Consulting and System Integration Companies in Germany” by Lünendonk & Hossenfelder GmbH
