valantic Grows With mm1 in the Field of Connected Business

Strategic Consulting for Telecommunications, Mobility, Manufacturing Industry and Financial Services

Munich, September 20, 2022: The digital solutions, consulting and software company valantic continues its growth course, welcoming the digitalization boutique mm1 as a new member. For 25 years, mm1 has been successfully helping its customers develop offerings for the digitally connected world. Satisfied customers include German rail operator Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Telekom, as well as automakers, and companies in the manufacturing industry and financial services sector. mm1 currently has over 150 employees at five locations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland working for its customers’ long-term digital success.

Founded in Stuttgart in 1997, the fast-growing digitalization consultancy mm1 is managed by the six partners Rainer Lindenau, Volker Scholz, David B. Hofmann, Laurenz Kirchner, Gabriel Mertens and Dr. Michael Eble, and stands out for its marked competence and expertise in the consulting fields of innovation and growth, and digital transformation and data. mm1’s consultants help leading companies in the DACH region to shape our digital and connected world, supporting prominent organizations in the four core industries of telecommunications, manufacturing and financial services. In doing so, its digitialization consulting focuses on the competence areas Connectivity & IoT, Digital Innovation, Data Thinking and Digital Strategy & Transformation.

mm1 helps companies optimally tap their growth potential through digital offerings and make inroads into new customer groups and markets through innovative digital business models. A number of examples include, in the Connectivity & IoT service line, projects such as nationwide fiber optic rollouts, the design and implementation of connectivity platforms, and the selection and testing of wireless technologies for IoT applications. In the area of Digital Innovation, the mm1 team ensures that ideas are transformed into successful digital offerings, the spectrum ranging from market research and the development of various application scenarios to successful market launches. In the Data Thinking field, mm1 helps its customers successfully master their transformations to become data-driven businesses; here, the scope of the projects ranges from an overarching data strategy to concrete use cases such as optimized train scheduling and the evaluation of sensor data from global product fleets. And last but not least, the Digital Strategy & Transformation competence area analyzes the customer’s digital maturity and derives digitalization strategies and, where appropriate, IT infrastructure projects from this.

In its capacity as a consulting and strategy partner, mm1 has managed more than 400 successful digitalization projects for well over 40 corporate clients in the DACH region. Long-standing customers include prominent organizations such as Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Telekom, swisscom, Porsche, Daimler, Bosch, e.on, vodafone and many more.

In the area of mobility, its portfolio includes the development of digital services for rail passengers and ensuring vehicle fleet connectivity. For telecommunications service providers, mm1 designs IT platforms, conceives new networking offers and supports the expansion of fiber optic infrastructure, among other things. For its industrial customers, mm1 focuses on digitalization and connectivity strategies, including for innovative and sustainable eMobility solutions and for smart connected product offerings. And for the financial services sector, mm1 designs new payment models, develops the architectures of large enterprise data warehouses and evaluates use cases for the application of artificial intelligence in marketing and consulting.

“We have gained around 150 new colleagues with mm1, whose 25 years of digitalization experience and outstanding consulting skills further strengthen our expertise and solution competence. Topics such as connectivity, the Internet of Things (IoT), data-driven business decisions, powerful digital platforms, innovative business models and strategic transformation are becoming ever-more important. Our multinational as well as our midmarket customers will benefit from our enhanced offering,” says Holger von Daniels, CEO and founder of valantic.

“We are very excited about working with our new valantic colleagues. valantic’s vision of elite companies joining forces, their pragmatic mindset, and the personal touch in how they work with their colleagues perfectly match our own values. In valantic, we have found a strong, like-minded partner. Their comprehensive consulting and digitalization expertise and very human corporate culture fit excellently with our own company philosophy. They will help us reach out to new job applicants, offer our customers even better service than in the past, and open up new market segments,” says Rainer Lindenau, founder and partner at mm1.