Services
Enterprise Business Data Strategy
We help executive teams assess major business, data, infrastructure, and AI decisions independently.
We then turn the chosen option into a sound enterprise architecture and stay involved through implementation.
45 minutes, free of charge, by video.
- Independent of vendors
- One Managing Partner leads your engagement
- A decision after every phase
Business Data Transformation Framework
From current state to measurable impact
Seven phases structure every engagement, with the Enterprise Variation Method as the decision core. After each phase, you decide whether to proceed.
- Understand
Current state
You receive a documented current state with risks, critical gaps, and priorities, worked out on site in the BISA baseline assessment or the BEIA enterprise assessment.
Services: Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Infrastructure, AI
- Define
Goals and criteria
You receive Management Clarity, the shared basis for the decision: goals, criteria, and their weighting.
Services: Business Architecture
- Enterprise Variation MethodVary · Simulate · Decide
Options instead of early commitment
You receive a reasoned decision between feasible options instead of a vendor recommendation.
- Architect
Target architecture
You receive a target architecture and roadmap with target metrics.
Services: Business Data Strategy, Data Architecture, Infrastructure, AI
- Transform
Implementation
You receive vendor selection, oversight of service providers, migration, and documented sign-off.
Services: Implementation
- Enable
Enablement
You receive training, roles, and documentation so your team can carry on independently.
Services: Enablement
- Measure
Measure impact
You receive evidence of whether the benefit materializes, and the basis for adjusting course.
See how SIMO structures and evaluates alternatives.
Services
Seven services, one target state
Each service stands on its own and delivers a result of its own. Together they add up to Zero Friction Data Flow.
Business Architecture
Business model, processes, and decision paths, readable on one page.
Data Architecture
A data map and a target architecture everyone can rely on.
Business Data Strategy
Which data supports which decision, and who owns it.
Infrastructure
Data center, cloud, or hybrid, assessed for cost, risk, and sovereignty.
AI
Use cases with clear value, on reliable data, and with clear rules.
Implementation
Vendor selection, migration, and sign-off, supported into operation.
Enablement
SIMO equips executives and business units to carry the data strategy forward on their own. The SIMO Academy supports this with hands-on training.
The goal
Zero Friction Data Flow
All seven services interlock: data flows to where it is needed.
3D visualization: AI-generated
Getting started
Two paths to sound decisions.
SIMO offers two structured ways to analyze your company’s starting position: the BISA baseline assessment and the BEIA enterprise assessment. Both give you a clear view of existing structures, risks, opportunities for development, and where action is needed. Scope and approach depend on the decision you face.
Path 1 · in two steps
BISA baseline assessment
Business Infrastructure & Security Assessment: Discover & Baseline, then Validate & Advance
- Best for
- When you first want to know where you stand and will carry out the immediate actions yourself.
- How it works
- Interviews with management, business units, and IT, plus one day on site with the Managing Partner who leads your engagement.
- Result
- Documented current state, risks, critical gaps, priorities, and immediate actions. Expected after about four weeks per step.
- Next
- Step 2 (Validate & Advance): your team implements, and SIMO checks the effect and develops the target state and roadmap.
Path 2 · in a single pass
BEIA enterprise assessment
Business Enterprise Infrastructure Assessment, the Executive Fast Track
- Best for
- Ahead of a major decision, investment, acquisition, or succession.
- How it works
- Documents in advance, one day on site with both Managing Partners, then the presentation to your management team.
- Result
- Enterprise Assessment Book with ten components, culminating in a decision paper. Expected after about four weeks.
Guiding question, modules, the on-site day, and deliverables.
Which path fits? Twelve questions, about 3 minutes.
Our commitments
Five commitments, in every engagement
They apply from the initial call to the handover, whichever way you start.
You talk to your peers.
One Managing Partner leads your engagement personally, from the initial call to handover, and is on site with you at the start. For the BEIA, both Managing Partners are on site.
You decide again after every step.
Every step ends with a documented result, a reasoned recommendation, and a fixed scope.
No system is replaced blindly.
We switch a system off only once all of its data is understood and migrated.
“Ihre Daten bleiben Ihre Daten.”
Your data stays under your control. The AI comes to the data.
We make you independent, even of us.
We sell no software and earn nothing from your licenses. When we step back, your team has the knowledge and documentation to carry on.
Questions
Questions executives ask before they start
Which service fits my situation?
That depends on the question in front of you. Conflicting figures point to data architecture, an ERP or cloud change to business architecture and infrastructure, and an AI initiative to AI advisory. The Decision Readiness Check shows where your initiative stands in about 3 minutes; in the initial call, we work it out together.
When is BISA the right start, and when BEIA?
The BISA baseline assessment fits when you first want a reliable baseline and will carry out the immediate actions yourself; its second step then checks their effect and develops the target state and roadmap. The BEIA enterprise assessment fits ahead of a major decision, investment, acquisition, or succession: the full enterprise view in a single pass.
Is SIMO an IT consultancy?
No. The subject of our advice is the company, not the technology. We clarify decision paths, accountability, data ownership, and auditability, and then support implementation until the benefit is proven. Data is the medium and the evidence, not the purpose.
What company size is the advice suited to?
What matters is complexity, not size. We work with organizations whose strategic goals depend on fragmented, legacy, or heavily regulated data landscapes, from specialized midsize companies to international groups and regulated institutions.
How soon does an engagement deliver results?
That depends on your starting position and the scope, so we set the timeline with you only after the entry engagement. It starts with a free 45-minute initial call and the on-site start: for the BISA baseline assessment with the Managing Partner who leads your engagement, for the BEIA enterprise assessment with both Managing Partners. After that, you decide after every phase whether to continue, and implementation follows in agreed steps.
Your next step
45 minutes, and you will know whether SIMO fits your decision.
An initial call by video, free of charge and without obligation, with one of our two Managing Partners. If working together doesn’t make sense, we’ll tell you openly.
45 minutes, free of charge, by video.
Prefer to assess your position first? Twelve questions, about 3 minutes.
Prefer to call? +49 6021 625 63 40
Note: the 3D visualizations on this page were created with AI.