Free ebook · 2026 edition
A 15-page guide with the numbers behind the gap between businesses that run on connected systems and those that still run on spreadsheets — and a practical plan to close it.
20%
of EU businesses used AI in 2025, up from 13.5% a year earlier.
Source: Eurostat
5.2%
of Romanian businesses used AI in 2025 — the lowest share in the EU.
Source: Eurostat
52.7%
of EU businesses paid for cloud services in 2025. In Romania: 24.9%.
Source: Eurostat
88%
of breaches at small and mid-sized businesses involved ransomware.
Source: Verizon DBIR 2025
All figures are referenced to their public source inside the ebook.
Why AI, cloud and rising IT budgets changed the game for smaller companies.
Eight statistics from Eurostat, McKinsey, Gartner and Verizon, explained.
Where Romanian businesses stand — and why that is an opportunity for early movers.
Four levels, from digitize to optimize, and why skipping one makes projects fail.
Where manual work hides in your budget and a simple way to estimate it.
Why most AI projects stall, and what to fix before buying an AI tool.
The basics that prevent most incidents in small and mid-sized companies.
When to connect the systems you have and when replacing them makes sense.
A focused first quarter that removes the worst manual work.
The most common reasons digitalization projects overrun or fail.
18 statements to score how digital your business is today.
Every statistic linked to its public source.
Romania vs. the EU
Romanian businesses sit at the bottom of most EU digitalization rankings. Companies that connect their systems now don’t just catch up with Europe — they move ahead of most of their local market.
Businesses using AI, 2025
Businesses paying for cloud, 2025
Adults with basic digital skills, 2025
Source: Eurostat, 2025 data. Enterprises with 10 or more employees.
You know your team spends too much time on copy-paste and reconciliations, and you want numbers to decide what to fix first.
You run the processes that break when systems don’t talk to each other — orders, invoices, stock and month-end reports.
You need a clear, sourced argument to get budget for integration, automation and security work.
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Owners, managers, operations and IT leads at small and mid-sized companies who want to understand where digitalization brings real value in 2026 and where to start.
From public sources: Eurostat, the European Commission’s Digital Decade reports, McKinsey, Gartner, IDC and the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Every figure is referenced on the last page.
Yes. Most of the guide covers EU-wide data and practical steps that apply to any company. One chapter compares Romania with the EU average.
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