Consumer & Services

The building sector is one of the largest sources of energy consumption in Europe. Stricter regulations regarding the energy performance of buildings as well as a significant expansion of building renovations are integral parts of the EU renovation wave. 

Data-driven strategies and digitalization offer the industry promising potential for improved management of operational business processes and value enhancement of your portfolio. With our many years of experience in the processing and analysis of multi-dimensional data structures – e.g. geo-data, energetic-technical and economic indicators – we can support you with established methods and technical solutions in the integration of data into your core business.

Our project teams combine the highest level of competence in data governance and analytics and IT with specialist expertise in the construction and real estate industries, thus supporting you in building scalable IT infrastructures for modern use cases. We advise you on regulatory requirements along EU taxonomy and CSRD-compliant reporting and analyze how different drivers develop under individual scenarios and impact your strategic, financial and sustainability goals. We accompany you on the way to operationalizing your transformation goals and innovation projects.

The increasing digitisation of the aviation industry requires airlines, airfreight carriers and airports to cope with the transformation towards connected, dynamic and high-performance business processes. This affects the handling of passengers and freight, the planning of transport and resource capacities, as well as the coordination with respective logistics partners.

d-fine supports its clients, for example, through the application of optimisation algorithms for market-driven network planning, intelligent gate positioning, and efficient capacity and revenue management. For the latter, we develop dynamic pricing models, taking into account stochastic effects and capacity buffers. We also implement predictive models for maintenance, making use of digital twins, and support our clients in the cargo sector with the automation of the supply chain and intermodal routing.

The increasing availability of data and innovation in sport enables data- and model-based insights, better decision-making and innovative strategies. The opportunities and use cases extend across all areas: Digital solutions in match analysis and intelligent scouting platforms in licensing departments, customised talent development in junior performance centres, resilient measures in marketing, transparent insights in controlling as well as concepts and implementations in the area of sustainability.

d-fine has extensive experience in creating automated data paths, linking and processing big data, and applying data analytics and machine learning methods. We support clubs and associations in implementing internal data solutions, jointly developing innovative models for customised insights, creating strategic data visions and sustainability concepts and putting them into practice.

We have more than 15 years’ experience in helping clients to protect themselves from cyber risks and meet the associated regulatory requirements. Our experience covers securing bespoke as well as commercial-of-the-shelf-solutions; implemented on-premise or in the cloud. To this end, we have implemented information security management systems (ISMS), reviewed permission configurations, configured firewalls, examined source code for vulnerabilities, designed and tested business continuity procedures and implemented third-party security software.
In our projects, we assess IT-risks together with the associated business processes in order to obtain a precise understanding of the issues facing our clients and their root causes. 
Our clients appreciate this holistic approach to IT security, as it enables resource-efficient solutions to IT risks that addresses critical risks.

Ensuring that mobility and logistics providers act sustainably and responsibly is increasingly becoming the focus of companies and the general public. Furthermore, regulator focus on such topics is growing.

In addition to decarbonization, i.e. avoiding greenhouse gas emissions and the enforcement of social and labour law standards in the supply chain, the transition from a linear to circular economy is of particular relevance.

d-fine supports clients in assessing the sustainability of their products and processes, setting up transparent sourcing and production networks and developing strategies for transforming to decarbonized and circular value chains. Depending on the particular challenge, we apply a myriad of different tools – for example mathematical modelling of complex systems, simulations of network dependencies or implementation of bespoke software solutions.

Finance and controlling are in an unprecedented state of upheaval. In the course of digitisation, new technical possibilities are making the far-reaching remodelling of existing organisational structures unavoidable. With our extensive experience in digital change management and given the technical and quantitative expertise of our consultants, we support you not only in terms of the classical issues relating to finance and control, but also with planning and implementing your new strategy. We help you to set up flexible, comprehensively networked IT systems that not only improve your operational processes, but also support you with strategic decisions thus facilitating agile real-time company management.

d-fine supports you with innovative ideas and concrete proposals to meet the growing challenges of corporate treasury and risk management. We pursue an integrated approach such that the entirety of all risks jeopardising the success of your company can be identified, quantified and actively managed using established methods – even going beyond the interplay of market, credit and liquidity risks. We would be pleased to support you in questions of compliance and the implementation of the necessary regulatory and accounting standards.

Our holistic consulting approach includes professional and technical solutions, developed hand-in-hand with you to meet your particular requirements. We can support you, for instance, in the professional and technical analysis of end-to-end processes using process mining and in the mapping of the functions and processes you require in treasury and risk systems, from system selection through to implementation.