Joachim Abert
Joachim is a consultant for SAP Business Warehouse and integrated planning. Already in 1995, he was involved in the first global SAP introduction of a pharmaceutical company in the USA and has been an SAP consultant since 1998. Until 2002, his focus was on SAP SD and sales reporting. In 2002, he started with SAP BW and in 2011 integrated planning was added. He has accumulated experience in the pharmaceutical, metal processing, food, energy, electrical, telecommunications, chemical and engineering sectors. In many international projects, Joachim has worked on all areas from conception to implementation and support. He is active both in the BW backend, as well as in the frontend (BEx and Analysis for Office).
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Patrick von Aufschnaiter
Patrick von Aufschnaiter has been working with SAP BW / BPS and BI-IP since 1999. In this time he was able to gain experience in numerous projects covering all project phases from business requirements to building integrated solutions.
Special areas of expertise in the past have been
- Building KPI driven generic Data Models
- Building integrated planning applications
- Restructuring and optimization projects (EDW, LSA)
- Authorizations
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Gregor Becker
With more than 10 years of proven track record at SAP SE in Customer Support and IT, Gregor has built an in-depth technical knowledge with a focus on SAP BW/4 HANA, Reporting, and Planning. Gregor has worked along the whole lifecycle from early design stages, through implementation, testing, and operations.
He loves tackling new technologies to stay one step ahead of the competition, bringing new technology to early adopting customers.
His passion for numbers and performance optimization will always be a great addition to your project.
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Philipp Beer
In 8 years of SAP experience, including 5 years in the data warehouse environment, Philipp has carried out various roles as developer, project manager, solution architect, trainer, and application tester. Through various international projects in Europe and North America he gained experience in working with diverse cultures.
He provides fast and easy-to-use reporting and planning solutions with SAP BW, BI-IP, BPS and BPC. His expertise encompasses the full range from project management, requirement analysis, solution design, implementation, documentation, training, go-live to handover of support activities.
A successful data warehouse solution combines an extensive knowledge of the business process and the technical capabilities to implement it in budget, time and quality. Therefore, Philipp's approach to a project comprises understanding the needs of the customer, finding a simple solution to complex problems as well as ensuring knowledge transition to the customer.
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Manuel Benz
Senior Consultant
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Dr. Thomas Biber
Thomas Biber has been working for 2 years with a dot.com company in Washington DC and in London, before he joined SAP in Walldorf in 1999. At SAP he has been a consultant and project manager in numerous SAP BI projects in Germany, Switzerland and Sweden. Between 2005 and 2006 he worked as a Senior Manager for Siemens Business Services based in Berlin, with a strong focus on SAP & BI project sales. Thomas has worked in many different industries and has an excellent overview over industry specific processes, IT or SAP related questions and respective customer strategies. Since 2006 he is the founder and managing director of www.biber-associates.de – a highly specialized executive search agency, recruiting top SAP professionals and managers for a prestigious selection of customers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
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Marc Böning
Marc is Solution Architect in the areas of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. He has collected more than 20 years of BI experience in the following industries: retail, banking, insurance and in the public sector. Due to his participation in numerous projects, Marc has an extensive knowledge in Informatica PowerCenter, Teradata, MicroStrategy and SAP BW environment with a deep understanding of the concepts of relational and multidimensional databases and a strong focus on different technical areas like modelling, development, performance optimization and reporting strategies.
Since 2001 he is working as a self-employed Solution Architect and in the year 2008 he founded productive-data GmbH, a business consultancy which is concentrating on BI/DWH-projects and -products.
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Christian Buck
Christian Buck has been working within the field of SAP BI since the early days of SAP’s development of the Business Warehouse. He has numerous projects under his belt and is now working with the latest SAP technologies. Christian started out as ABAP/OO developer and is now working as a BI Architect and development lead. His project experiences include BI implementations and projects in several industries such as Banking, Automotive, Pharmaceutical and Retail industries. He includes the ability to engineer and deliver Business Warehouse applications as well as to develop all stages of a BI implementation even up to simulation and planning applications. Christian has been working in management positions in the past and is experienced in leading teams and structure successful projects.
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Nils Clausen
Nils is an active SAP Business Warehouse Developer since 1999, when version 1.2B was released. He participated in numerous projects including Edeka, Hollister, Deutsche Telekom, and Fielmann. In 2013 he was certified by SAP as Certified SAP HANA Application Consultant. He additionally masters R, postgreSQL, Oracle RDBMS, Amazon RedShift, and Tableau and all methods associated with it.
For several years, Nils has worked as a University Lecturer for Computer Sciences and has authored several books and articles on Business Intelligence.
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Markus Egenberger
Markus is working in the area of SAP since 2003. In 2007 he specialized in SAP Business Warehouse (BW) and since that time he is working with this application in different project roles.
Markus has already successfully worked in all phases of a project life cycle, beginning with the finalization of customer’s requirements, creation of design documents, implementations of data models including programming in ABAP up to go-live activities. Additionally he was also a part of the application support team of an already productive BW system in two of his roles.
Within the BW area Markus’ roles included different tasks as the extraction of data from source systems, creation of data flows, definition and implementation of authorization models and buildup of reporting solutions. During his past projects Markus worked in different industries and for different customers like Siemens (High-Tech, Energy and Transportations), Vodafone (Telecommunications), BMW (Automotive), Bundesagentur für Arbeit (Public services) and BASF (Chemistry).
In addition to this SAP BW focus Markus is interested in EDW and LSA concepts. In future he is looking forward to start working on concepts of in-memory technologies.
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Prof. Dr. Karin Gräslund
Member of K-42 eG Advisory Board
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Volker Groß
Volker has been with SAP Consulting for more than 14 years.
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Dr. Peter Hapke
Senior Consultant
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Ralf Herrberg
Ralf Herrberg has got seventeen years of SAP experience in SAP BW, Logistic processes & business consulting. He gained his experience in national and international projects as Senior Consultant and Manager in the following industries: plant and machinery construction, consumer goods industry, automotive industry as well as oil industry. He designs and implements complex SAP BW architecture end-to-end starting from the business key data concept, data modelling, data staging, extraction of SAP and legacy systems ending with the reporting with BEx and WEB Application Designer. Furthermore he has planning integration knowledge. He excels in deep BW know-how and in good knowledge of economical processes, integrative process, planning and the symbiosis of processes and IT.
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Markus Herrmann
Markus Herrmann is a Solution Architect with 15 years of SAP experience. Since 1997 he is gaining experience in Data Warehousing. With a deep business economic understanding and strong SAP R/3 knowledge, Markus is able to implement complex reporting requirements using SAP BW. Starting with Hyperion Essbase, he is now working since 15 years with SAP BW. As BI senior consultant he has collected many project experiences within different industries in various roles. Markus is offering an end-to-end consultancy in SAP BW, starting from the extraction logic via the ETL and data modelling process to the creation of reporting using SAP frontend tools.
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Janna Horstmann
Janna Horstmann is Consultant for SAP with more than seven years of consulting and development experience, three years at SAP Deutschland AG & CO KG. She consults enterprises in the area of Business Warehousing and Planning.
In the last years as BW consultant she gained experiences concerning the following topics: HANA basics, Layered Scalable Architecture, Re-engineering of existing Data Warehouse Architectures, ABAP Object-Oriented Programming and ABAP for HANA, Data Extraction (SD, COPA), Web Application Designer, integration of Market Research data (Nielsen, GfK, DROTAX), DSIM (Demand Signal Management) and activities in Project Management Office.
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Jan Klatt
Senior Consultant
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Robert Klein
Robert Klein is principal consultant with 11 years of software consulting and development experience. In numerous projects within various branches he was able to collect experiences as Workflow and BI consultant e.g. either within an implementation role, the role of the stream lead or the project management lead as well as data (warehouse) and solution architect. Also he was software developer for SAP in the areas of crossapplications, interface technologies, ABAP and C(++). Robert has been recently more than five years with SAP Germany, working on major SAP BI Implementations in Europe with a strong focus on different technical areas like EDW modeling, performance optimization, ILM, extraction technologies and ABAP best practices. During this time he was in charge of the Focus Group ‘Information Integration’ – also he was responsible on large BI team and budget implementation as certified Project Manager (IIL).
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Ralf Klepp
Ralf Klepp is Senior Consultant for SAP NetWeaver BI. He has collected over 9 years experience with software from SAP in different companies as an employee in IT-Departments and as an external consultant in the following industries: automotive, healthcare, consulting, food and household equipments. Due to his participation in many projects, Mr. Klepp has gathered extensive knowledge in the SAP BI environment and the SAP ERP modules FI and CO. In addition to designing, implementing and supporting complex BI data models and architectures, beginning with data extraction and ending with user friendly reporting and cockpits, he also creates highly sophisticated planning applications for logistics and financials.
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Olaf Klostermann
Olaf Klostermann is focusing on SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP HANA topics, mainly on architecture concepts and performance. In last 15 years he was involved in many international SAP projects for SAP BI solutions and has been with SAP Germany for 5 years. Before concentrating on SAP technology he had different technical roles in database development and BI solutions like Hyperion and Oracle. Olaf is co-author of „SAP NetWeaver BW Administration“ and „Praxishandbuch SAP BW 7.4“, both published by Rheinwerk Verlag (SAP Press).
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Rolf Koch
Senior Consultant
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Stephan Kohl
Stephan Kohl is a Senior Consultant and Developer for SAP Business Intelligence with more than ten years of experience. In these years he has worked for several companies in the following industries: automotive, pharma, education, industry and energy. In this time, he was able to gather experience in numerous projects covering all project phases from gathering business requirements to building high complex reporting solutions.
He has deep technical knowledge in building BI applications with SAP BW, the tools of the BEx Suite, Visual Composer, Design Studio, Analysis for Office and ABAP OO.
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Markus Krystian
Senior Consultant
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Hans Kühne
Hans is a Senior BI Consultant with more than 10 years of experience with SAP BW, BW Integrated Planning and SAP-SEM Strategic Enterprise Management. He gained his experience within the SAP Group in the roles of product manager for SAP SEM, SAP BW/BI/SEM Consultant and as controller in charge for the management reporting tools and processes within the Process Team of the SAP Group Controlling.
As a freelance consultant he is offering a combination of technical SAP BW/BI know-how and his experience in the group controlling area gained within the SAP group but also in a family owned medium sized group of companies in the engineering industry.
His industry experience includes automotive/supplier, plant construction and engineering, pharma, medical equipment, apparel, CPG/food, financial services and IT/software.
Today he focuses on BW-IP planning projects in controlling and management relevant areas (eg. financial statement planning and sales planning) and the corresponding management reporting with SAP-BW.
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Robert Landwehr
Robert is a Senior Consultant for SAP Business Intelligence & Financials with over 10 years experience, certified in SAP Hana and SAP ERP Business Processes. He worked for numerous well-known companies in different industries and as a consultant for Accenture Germany. With extensive technical and business knowledge in the area of SAP Business Intelligence and Financials he offers integrated BI consultancy starting from the extraction logic via the ETL and data modelling process to the creation of reporting strategies using SAP frontend tools.
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Declan McNeela
Declan is a Senior Consultant and has over 10 years SAP experience - starting as a developer for R/3 before moving into BI Consulting. He has specialised in the programming for all stages of the data-flow, from extraction to presentation, and is co-author and trainer for the SAP course 'BI Backend & Programming'. He has extensive integrated planning and data modeling experience and worked in the banking, consumer electronics, chemical and automotive industries.
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Sven Nozar
Sven is working in SAP area since 1997, starting with implementation of logistic and controlling modules. Since end of 2000 he started with BI-projects holding several roles. From development of applications over project lead of BI-projects as well as member of global BI-Governance. The main focus of Sven is the implementation of efficient ETL-processes within BW-system. Because of his strong R/3 knowledge, he is specialized to all kind of extraction interfaces as well.
- Business process consulting and proprietary development in ABAP
- Certified SAP-Consultant for Business Warehouse, Sales and Distribution and Accelerated SAP Implementation of efficient ETL-processes (extract, transform, load) for reporting
- Extensive experience of Supply Chain processes and Profitability Analysis
- Extensive project experience in chemical industry, consumer goods industry, electronical industry and pulp and paper
- Global project management, process harmonization and corresponding transformation to several reporting tools
- IT-Governance, including definition of global rules and guidelines. Global gatekeeping and lead of several project teams
- Global Roll-Out Management and coaching in global IT program planning
- Proprietary development in ABAP
- Languages: German and English fluent
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Udo Oedelshoff
Udo Oedelshoff is a Senior Consultant and Developer for SAP Business Intelligence and SAP HANA.
Udo is working in the area of SAP since 1994 starting with the implementation of logistic modules. In 2000 he started with BI-projects in several roles.
Udo worked in in the following industries: chemical, electronic, automotive, pharma, food, beverage and medical wholesale. Due to his participation in several projects, Udo has an extensive knowledge in the SAP BI environment with deep relational and programming understanding and a strong focus on different technical areas like DW modelling, master data, extraction, performance optimization and reporting.
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Sorin Pascu
Sorin Pascu graduated in business economics at University of Hohenheim / Germany and worked as BI consultant since 2004, among others with SAP Deutschland AG & Co KG.
After graduating 2015 in Statistics at Humboldt University / Free University in Berlin, he works as data scientist with SAP Predictive Analytics, SAP HANA, R, Spark and Python.
2015 he founded Appstam Consulting GmbH - Applied Statistics Machines.
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Dr. Stefan Paul
Stefan is a certified SAP Business Intelligence consultant and SAP BI Project Manager with over 20 years of consulting experience (self-employed since 2000). The main focus of Stefan is the project coordination in complex business scenarios and BI landscapes. Due to more than 15 years of experience with SAP’s BI solution he is strong in all areas of SAP BI implementation: Backend, Frontend, Data Modeling, Authorizations and Enterprise Data Warehouse concepts like LSA++.
Stefan worked in in the following industries: chemical, food, beverage, dye, automotive, aircraft, utility and IT service provider.
In parallel to his work as a SAP BI consultant Stefan is giving lectures at several universities of applied science. Topics are e. g.: Business Intelligence, Requirements Engineering, Business Process Management and Knowledge Management.
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Wolfgang Pfeifer
Senior Consultant
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Dr. Ulrich von Rechberg
Dr. Ulrich v. Rechberg received his diploma in computer science from the Technical University of Munich. He develops customer solutions and consults since 1998 in managerial accounting, since 2000 also in business intelligence.
After working for two years for an automotive manufacturer and subsequently completing his doctoral degree at the WHU in Vallendar, he was employee of SAP in the business area consulting for 10 years and then started his own business. Since 2011 he is member of the board of k-42 eG. He is also co-founder and managing director of sigma-42 GmbH.
Dr. Ulrich v. Rechberg worked as a solution consultant and project manager in the SAP applications Businesss Intelligence (BI), Business Planning and Simulation (BPS), Integrated Planning (IP), Investment Management (IM), Profitability Accounting (CO-PA), overhead cost management (CO-OM), project system (PS) and profit center accounting (EC-PCA). His main focus is the design and implementation of individual customer solutions. Since a couple of years he is deeply involved in predictive analytics in terms of applying statistics to the valuation of companies and portfolio management, mainly of real estate objects. Lately he focused on the optimization of maintenance strategies.
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Wolfram Reiche
Wolfram is a Senior Consultant for SAP Business Intelligence with more than five years of experience. In 2006 he started to work with SAP BI. From 2007 he worked in several projects as an external consultant in the following industries: Software, Automotive and Energy. He has knowledge in building solutions for Reporting with Bex Analyzer, Web Application Designer, Report Designer, Visual Composer, Dashboards etc.
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Eduard Sauerbrei
Eduard started his career as DW/BI consultant in August 2005. He is currently working as a senior consultant in the area of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence with SAP BW / NetWeaver.
He gained profound experience working on international projects in North America and Europe as consultant, senior consultant, subproject manager and assistant project manager. His professional experience includes design and development of new Data Warehouse and Reporting solutions. Furthermore, Eduard’s project experience includes enhancement of already existing solutions and their maintenance.
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Daniel Schindler
Daniel Schindler is a Senior Consultant and Developer for SAP Business Intelligence and SAP HANA with more than seven years of experience. In this time, he was able to gather experience in numerous projects covering all project phases from gathering business requirements to building high complex reporting solutions. He has deep technical knowledge in building BI applications with SAP BW, BEx Suite, Business Objects, BI-Integrated Planning, ABAP OO and web technologies like HTML and JavaScript. Due to projects at SAP SE he also gained wide knowledge in SAP BW on HANA, native SAP HANA development, SAP Lumira and SAP Design Studio for analytical applications based on Big Data.
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Alexander-Hartmut Schirm
Senior Consultant
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Matthias Schmidt
Member of K-42 eG Advisory Board
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Torsten Schmidt
Torsten is Solution Architect for SAP NetWeaver BI with twelve years of experience. He started working with SAP BI in 2001 with a background from civil engineering. He has extensive experience in the consulting area capturing roles as developer, solution manager and solution architect. In numerous BI Projects Torsten aquired consolidated knowledge in the divisions of real estate, public sector and consumer products. Regarding software development he has a strong focus on combining the power of SAP and the usability of Microsoft Office.
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Friedrich Schmiga
Senior Consultant
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Dr. Sascha Schmitt
Senior Consultant
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Christoph Sommer
Christoph is a Solution Architect for SAP Business Intelligence & Financials and SAP BI Project Manager with over 13 years of consulting experience. Certified in SAP ECC Financials, SAP BI7.0 and as a Project Management Professional (PMP©), he worked for numerous prestigous clients in various industries as an employee of SAP Consulting Germany (1998-2008) and as a self-employed consultant (since 2009). With extensive business and technical knowledge in the area of SAP Business Intelligence and Financials he supports his customers in conception, realization and project management preferably in the fields:
- SAP BI Architecture (Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW), Scalable Layered Architecture (SLA))
- Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) incl. ABAP/OO programming
- Integrated Information and Planning Systems for Financial Accounting and Controlling with SAP BI-integrated Planning and BW-BPS
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Stöckl
Member of K-42 eG Advisory Board
Since April 2014 Dr. Stöckl has been an Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance at the ICN Business School Nancy-Metz (Grande École de Commerce et de Management). In addition, he is Managing Partner of IDEA Beratungs- und Forschungsgesellschaft UG (haftungsbeschränkt) and member of many scientific societies (e.g., American Finance Association, CEREFIGE - European Centre for Research in Financial Economics and Business Management, amongst others). Furthermore, he published a lot of articles in highly ranked academic journals and is at the same time also author of a standard text book entitled “Wertpapiermanagement: Professionelle Wertpapieranalyse und Portfoliostrukturierung” (ISBN: 978-3791030555). Apart from that, he had teaching agreements at several universities (e.g., Hochschule Fresenius, University of Augsburg, University of Konstanz, Germany University in Cairo, etc.).
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Thilo Zelmer
Thilo is Solution Architect for SAP Business Intelligence. He has collected more than 18 years SAP experience, 5 years at SAP Germany (2002 - 2007) in the following industries: automotive, high tech and public sector. Since 2007 he works as a self-employed data architect.
Due to his participation in several projects, Thilo has an extensive knowledge in the SAP BI environment with deep relational and programming understanding and a strong focus on different technical areas like EDW modelling, LSA concept, performance optimization, dashboard development and reporting strategies.
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Benjamin Zimmermann
Benjamin is Senior Consultant with SAP experience since 1997.
Consulting Focus:
- Business Intelligence applications with SAP BI
(e.g. business and technical conception, data modelling and implementation) - Business planning with SAP BI-BPS / BI-IP
(e.g. business and technical conception and implementation of end to end applications; integration of enterprise-wide planning & reporting applications) - Controlling applications with SAP R/3
(e.g. conception and implementation of cost-centre accounting, profit-centre accounting, profitability analysis, product costing, etc.) - Financial accounting systems with SAP R/3
(e.g. implementation of multi-GAAP; German + IAS, German + French GAAP etc.) - Project Management
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