The purpose of the paper is to present the current state of the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the Czech Republic small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) sector to access business information services. The paper is based on the research project on business information needs, seeking patterns and utilization of ICTs in the SME sector in the Czech Republic that was carried out from 2003 to 2018. The article brings a new perspective on the interpretation of statistical data on the use of ICT in the enterprise sector. The composite indicator represents one of the possible directions of long-term research. An approach has been proposed to use ICT tools to be categorized groups that capture individual business activities. The following countries were selected for analysis: the Czech Republic (CZ), Germany (DE), Slovakia (SK), Poland (PL) and Hungary (HU). The data source was the Eurostat database.