# SIMO GmbH · MAKE DATA EASY SIMO connects corporate strategy, architecture, data and AI into an enterprise that leadership can actually run. Enterprise Business Data Strategy for regulated markets and the Mittelstand. Dargestellte Fassung: https://simo-online.com/en ## Zero Friction Data Flow. MAKE DATA EASY 47 tools, three departments, three different truths. Reports take days. Decisions come down to gut feel. What is missing is a data strategy the board can actually steer by. Five symptoms that make it visible ## Data silos Every department has its own version of the truth. Nobody sees the whole picture. ## Excel as strategy Your biggest decisions rest on spreadsheets that were out of date yesterday. ## Undocumented knowledge When key people leave, the knowledge leaves with them. For good. ## Reports take days By the time the numbers are right, the situation has long since changed. ## Loss of control You do not know where your sensitive data sits. Your auditor soon will. ## Data strategy is a board matter. Complexity is rarely a technical problem. It becomes a leadership problem the moment it delays decisions, devalues reports and makes projects cost more than they return. Six situations that bring companies to us. Your company runs more systems than anyone can fully account for. Before a number reaches the board it is reconciled by hand, and nobody can say how many times. The transformation program keeps growing, but the complexity underneath it does not shrink. AI initiatives are already under way, but the data underneath them cannot be trusted. Nobody can say with authority which systems and which data are business-critical. Legacy platforms cannot be switched off, because the dependencies are unknown. These are not data problems. They are leadership problems that surface in the data. ## Strategy and technology in the same hands. Technology without strategy creates complexity. Strategy without delivery leads nowhere. We bring the two together and stay accountable until the result is proven. ### Trust Your data stays your data. Every engagement is led personally. ### Clarity Fewer systems, not more. Reduce complexity instead of administering it. ### Delivery Strategy without delivery is a slide deck. We provide both. ## The path to Zero Friction Data Flow. Business Strategy Business Architecture Enterprise Architecture Business Data Strategy Data & AI Enablement Zero Friction Data Flow ### Business Architecture We map your business model, your value chain and your capabilities, then turn them into a structure you can actually steer. That is the bridge between the board decision and the working day. ### Enterprise Architecture Consolidate the system landscape, bring the dependencies into the open, lay the technical ground for the transformation. From the inventory through to the target structure. ### Business Data Strategy Inventory the data holdings, secure data quality, put governance where it holds. Only after that does a number carry a decision at board level. ### Data & AI Enablement Make the data flow end to end, standardize the interfaces, build the ground AI needs. Vendor-neutral, GDPR-compliant, processed in the EU. ### Transformation & Decommissioning Retire legacy systems under control, run the parallel operation, know the dependencies before you touch anything. Without that work, no platform is ever really switched off. We never start at the technology. We start with the decisions your company has to be able to make. The platform that ends up carrying them follows from that answer, not the other way around. ## Six outcomes you can hold us to. For us, data strategy is a management tool, not a specialist discipline. It has to show up in cost, speed and risk. If it does not, it is not doing its job. ### Faster decisions Leadership decides on a basis that holds up in an audit, instead of on whichever number arrives first. ### Fewer systems What is no longer needed gets switched off, not administered. Transformation has to remove complexity, not add to it. ### Lower running cost Every interface, every read-only copy and every interim workaround costs money for as long as it exists. We count them before we take them out. ### Risk under control Regulatory requirements are answered before the initiative starts, not in the audit meeting. ### Evidence that holds up Where a number comes from, how it was calculated and who signed it off stays traceable for supervisors, internal audit and the board. ### Data ready for AI AI goes in where the data can carry it. That spares you initiatives that fail on their own foundations. We do not quote percentages here. What an initiative saves depends on where you start. That is what we measure first. ## Understand it first, then change it. Executive 360° Blueprint The Executive 360° Blueprint is an assessment of where your business actually stands. It is built on your real data, processes and systems, not on a model case. First results are on the table within two weeks, as a documented recommendation running 80 to 200 pages. The result belongs to you. Business model Processes Organization and accountability System landscape Data holdings Governance AI readiness Risk and cost Current state Target state Transformation roadmap Delivery supervision The first question is not which technology to bring in. The first question is why these systems exist, which processes they carry and which of them your business actually needs. ## Evidence, not assertions. We do not lead with a brand name. We lead with completed work in regulated markets. processed in 10 hours 700 business-critical files, fully reconciled. Summer 2025, under time pressure. transactions a day Transaction monitoring with 16 months of history. In place before the business day starts. named references across four regulated industries. Listed one by one on our references page. years in tier-1 banking Andreas O. Schwan, engagements at major banks under BaFin supervision. years in media production Thomas Wassum, leadership responsibility in print and media. Whatever your organization entrusts to us stays confidential. ## Three markets we know from the inside. Learn more ### Financial Services Core market Andreas Oliver Schwan, 20+ years of tier-1 banking 70 million transactions a day under full evidentiary obligation. ### Print & media Core market Thomas Wassum, 25+ years of media production The goal: job costing on the day, not at the monthly close. ### Mid-market Readiness to innovate Andreas Oliver Schwan & Thomas Wassum After four to six weeks, a target picture tested against your actual situation. ## A different delivery model. What an advisor sells shapes what that advisor recommends. So we say up front what we do not make money on. ### We do not sell software. We earn nothing on your licenses, which is why we can also tell you which ones you do not need. ### We are not a systems integrator. Technology is a means here, not the subject. Which platform it becomes follows the requirement, not the other way around. ### We do not deliver strategy alone. A target state without delivery supervision stays a document. We stay on the engagement until it holds. ### The managing directors are on the engagement. Compact senior teams rather than a large staffing model. The people who advise you are the people who are there when it gets difficult.