With around 30,000 apartments, Dawonia is one of the largest housing companies in southern Germany. Times and tenants are changing, which is why Dawonia is overhauling its core business – rentals – with total investments measuring in the billions to get it ready for the future – for digitisation as well as for demographic and environmental demands. Thomas Bechteler, the company’s Head of IT/Organisation & Digitisation, speaks about transformation in the working world and new technologies.

The task of drawing up the heating and consumption costs statement doesn’t have to be cost-intensive, time-consuming and error-prone. With EXAD 2.0, the easysquare portfolio offers a powerful and highly integrated solution for independent billing.

The mass media may have long since shifted its attention elsewhere, but the value of blockchain technology is only becoming clearer and clearer as time goes on. This essay describes how this technology will significantly influence data security and support collaboration between companies. The platform economy is expanding with the creation of new global network structures that are opening the door to completely new business models. These network structures, which take the form of distributed networks based on blockchain, enable secure data exchange.

The tasks associated with annual financial statements are time-sensitive and recurring by nature. This makes them easy to plan in theory. Simply create an Excel table and enter the process steps, responsibilities and deadlines – and voila! The Excel work is done. On the other hand, anyone who has used the popular spreadsheet program for project planning knows the strengths but also the limits of the software. Once it comes time to establish the appropriate references and logics between individual steps, developer skills are called for. The SAP® Financial Closing Cockpit (FCC) offers a simple and quick solution.