ICT use by companies by company size, 2008
Explanation of symbols
Table explanation
This table contains figures on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) by companies. These include:
- use of computers;
- internal and external networks, including the internet;
- software and its application;
- Supply Chain Management;
- Automated Data Exchange;
- communication with government via the internet;
- the extent to which companies use the internet for buying and selling;
- Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).
The figures refer to companies with 10 and more employed persons. Reference date is 31 December.
Data available from: 2008.
Changes as of 8 March 2019:
None, this table is discontinued.
When will new figures be published?
Not applicable anymore
Description topics
- Number companies >= 10 employed persons
- Total number of companies with 10 and more employed persons in the
Netherlands on 31 December. - Companies with internal networks (LAN)
- Use of linked computers in the company. This includes links between
different locations of the same company. Such a link (network) is
called a Local Area Network (LAN) and may be a "fixed" and "wireless"
connection. A company can have several types of LAN (wireless, intranet,
extranet).- LAN
- Number of companies with a LAN (Local Area Network).
- Wireless LAN
- Number of companies with a wireless LAN (Local Area Network).
- Intranet
- Number of companies with an internal company communications network
allowing internal file exchange between its users.
- Extranet
- Number of companies with an extranet: a secured extension of an intranet
that allows external users to access parts of the company's intranet.
- Companies with external networks
- External networks include internet or other networks than the internet,
such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).
EDI is a standard for electronic exchange of structured messages between
business partners.- Teleworkers
- Number of companies with employed persons who regularly, at least half a
day a week, work outside their place of work and have access to the ICT
system of the company. The employed person must have access to files
and/or software, not just email.
- Internet
- Companies with software/ICT applications
- ICT applications: special software with a limited application (e.g. an
accounting package).- ERP software
- Number of companies using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.
ERP software systematically integrates data of various units within the
company, such as planning, purchasing, logistics and production.
- Supply Chain Management (SCM)
- Supply Chain Management is the integration of a company's business and
ICT system with that of its business partners to coordinate the
availability and supply of products/services. This is electronic data
exchange on expected production, stock, demand, supply, product
development etc. and can be done via:
- the internet or another network;
- Automated Data Exchange.
Hand typed emails are excluded.- Total number of companies using SCM
- Total number of companies using Supply Chain Management.
- Companies that secure messages
- Companies taking measures to protect electronic data flows.
- Total of secured messages
- Number of companies using a form of security when sending or receiving
electronic messages, such as a digital signature or a cryptographic
protocol.
- Digital signature
- Number of companies transmitting electronic messages using a digital
signature or other methods to validate the sender and the messages.
- Cryptographic protocols
- Number of companies that made use of a secured communications protocol
(e.g. cryptographic protocols SSL and TLS) for orders received via the
Internet.
SSL: Secure Socket Layer.
TLS: Transport Layer Security.