Data Lab Dialogues

In a conversation with Fredrik Borlie we learn how Polestar managed to make full use of the offerings of SAP RISE by re-defining SAP ERP upgrade governance. At Polestar it is no longer a negotiation between IT and business when and how often their IT landscape is upgraded. Changing the entire organization to adopt a true cloud mindset has allowed Polestar to achieve shorter and more frequent upgrades. Thus realizing benefits of new innovations more frequently and much earlier than through traditional upgrade schemes.

Fredrik Borlie

Fredrik was certified as Basis Admin in December 1998

And has since then always worked with SAP technical areas.

Fredrik loves troubleshooting, and not just look for the symptom. He believe the best question is ”Why?”

Thomas Madsen, Technology explorer, SAP Denmark

Business Technology Platform Expert.

Karl Bergström, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Enterprise Architect in the presale area. Focusing on S/4 HANA and The intelligent Enterprise.

In a conversation with Rahul Karnawat and Shabarish Nair from Tarento Group we discuss the ins and outs of cloud transformation from the perspective of integration. We discuss the key integration challenges facing businesses embarking on the cloud journey and learn how Tarentos tool set and methodology can help businesses simplify their integration landscape.

Rahul Karnawat, Founding Partner at Tarento Group

Rahul is the co-founder of Tarento and the CEO of Tarento Nordics. He is passionate about co-creating a better tomorrow for enterprises leveraging the best of what technology has to offer.

Shabarish Nair, Vice President, Growth Leader at Tarento Group

Shabarish manages the growth function in Tarento and is responsible for the GTM strategy including partnerships. He has been working with technology for over 20 years with SAP at the core.

Thomas Madsen, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Business Technology Platform Expert.

Karl Bergström, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Enterprise Architect in the presale area. Focusing on S/4 HANA and The intelligent Enterprise.

In a conversation with Jacob Roed from Grundfos we hear how Grundfos organize themselves around SAP application and integration development. We hear about S/4HANA upgrades, introduction of FIORI and other SAP BTP Services.

Jacob shares his leadership philosophy and explains how Grundfos is attracting new talent to the SAP ecosystem.

Jakob Roed Jonstrup, IT manager and responsible for SAP & Integration Development at Grundfos. 

Jacob’s journey encompasses a master’s degree in Engineering Industrial Management, coupled with a 24-year voyage with Grundfos. 

Jacob is ignited by a relentless passion to create meaningful impacts –  i.e. “Make a difference” 

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Thomas Madsen, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Business Technology Platform Expert.

Karl Bergström, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Enterprise Architect in the presale area. Focusing on S/4 HANA and The intelligent Enterprise.

In this episode we meet Ingo Pfeiffer who, after employments at SAP customers and SAP itself, nowadays is acting as independent consultant in the field of SAP Application Lifecycle Management. Besides discussing Ingos experiences related to S/4HANA projects and making use of SAP Solution Manager and Focused Build, the conversation scope broadens out to touch upon Enterprise Architecture, the awareness of ALM at the point of SAP-related investment decisions and of course SAP Cloud ALM as “new kid on the block” in SAP’s ALM portfolio. 

Ingo Pfeiffer

Ingo is an external consultant engaged at his customers in roles as Focused Build Coach and SAP ALM architect. His responsibilities usually circle around the efficient use of SAP Solution Manager and SAP Cloud ALM and to increase the customer organizations ALM maturity by understanding and adopting SAP Activate and various SAP Best Practices, Standards and Guidelines applicable to the “Business of IT”.

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Thomas Madsen, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Business Technology Platform Expert.

Karl Bergström, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Enterprise Architect in the presale area. Focusing on S/4 HANA and The intelligent Enterprise.

In a conversation with Girish Gupta from Maersk we learn how Maersk leverages the SAP Analytics solution stack to increase financial transparency across multiple business areas. Girish explains how Maersk is organized around analytics, the analytics architecture and how Maersk has established a competency center to serve the business stakeholders with innovative, complex yet simple to use solutions at rapid pace.

Girish Gupta, Senior Engineering Manager for Financial Reporting & Analytics in Maersk technology

Girish is a seasoned leader with over 20 years´ experience starting from ABAP, Integration, Finance process areas & program leadership. In current role, Girish has been leading transformation of financial reporting & analytics for Maersk through use of SAP analytics stack in BW4HANA, SAC and DI. Girish is also responsible for global rollout of Concur. Hear his story on challenges in transformation journey and how Maersk is turning new corners from analytical to predictive insights.

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Thomas Madsen, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Business Technology Platform Expert.

Karl Bergström, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Enterprise Architect in the presale area. Focusing on S/4 HANA and The intelligent Enterprise.

In a conversation with Jan Hesthaven from KMD we learn how the first Danish public sector SAP solution was developed and launched as a pioneering Software as a Service deployment. KMD is a frontrunner using SAP, hosting SAP and delivering services and operations of SAP with the Danish municipalities. Jan explains the KMD history with SAP and how KMD and SAP collaborate to bring value to end users. Jan explain how KMD as a customer and partner leverage their connections in the SAP eco-system to get optimal value to their customers.

Jan Hesthaven, SAP Senior Program Director, KMD

Jan is SAP Senior Program Director at KMD, with the responsibility for the SAP Innovation & Strategy department and with the responsibility for KMD’s partnership with SAP. The focus is to improve and strengthen cooperation and partnership with SAP. Optimize the value of the agreements and cooperation with SAP. Take advantage of the latest SAP technology. Ensure a future-proof architecture in KMD’s solutions. Develop/generate new strategic and tactical initiatives on the SAP platform for use at the customers. Determine and develop SAP Tech Radar for KMD.

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Thomas Madsen, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Business Technology Platform Expert.

Karl Bergström, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Enterprise Architect in the presale area. Focusing on S/4 HANA and The intelligent Enterprise.

In a conversation with Greg Doukas and David Kargo from Trifork we learn how Trifork use SAP BTP platform to bring SAP Processes up close and personal to the end users. Greg and David explain with examples from their project with Royal Greenland how they go about innovating in close collaboration with the end users and business stakeholders. We learn about the ideation process, the development process and the release process.

Greg Doukas

Gregory Doukas is CTO at Trifork Smart Enterprise in our Barcelona Business Unit. A bit about my background; I’m Greek origin but spent most of my adult life in South Africa where I studied up to a Masters in Computer Science focusing on AI. There I started my career in SAP and ABAP and have continued with SAP technologies for over 15 years. Little over 3 years ago I moved to Barcelona to work for Trifork as a Full Stack SAP developer focusing on BTP, CAP and mobile experiences. These days, I also fulfill a Technology Lead role for Trifork, exploring all the latest SAP and non-SAP technologies and ensuring we can provide solutions to our customers on any stack with the best possible user experience.

David Kargo

David is SAP Digital Business Developer at TSE and specializes in: SAP Technical Architecture BTP and on-premise, SAP BTP Cloud development, SAP Fiori, SAP BTP mobile services, SAP Workflow Development (on-premise and cloud) and ABAP.

He has a Masters in Information Technology from Danish Technical University and moved to Germany where he started his SAP career at SAP in Germany for 3 years with ABAP, SAP workflow and web development, before getting back to Denmark.

Typical roles in projects are Tech lead, architect and customer contact, but also likes to still work as developer.

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Thomas Madsen, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Business Technology Platform Expert.

Karl Bergström, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Enterprise Architect in the presale area. Focusing on S/4 HANA and The intelligent Enterprise.

In a conversation with Kristoffer Rohde, head of Solution Consulting Nordics at OpenText we discuss how organizations can add intelligence to information throughout SAP business processes with automation, efficiency and agility whilst being able to share information across business processes and enterprise applications in a controlled and compliant manner.

Kristoffer Rohde, Head of Nordic Presales Solution Consulting at OpenText.

Kristoffer has more than 20 years of experience working in information management space and has helped many customers succeed with process automation, document & content management as well as archiving and legacy application decommissioning.

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Thomas Madsen, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Karl Bergström, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Enterprise Architect in the presale area. Focusing on S/4 HANA and The intelligent Enterprise.

In a conversation with Ola Schlyter from E.ON Sweden we learn about mission critical IT operations in one of the most exciting places to be in the winter of 22/23.

Utilities, specifically electricity distribution. Ola explains how E.ON decided to test conversion of their 20 year old ECC to S/4HANA and how they organized themselves around the test migration and the migration itself. SAP ISU migration into S/4HANA.

Ola Schlyter, Senior Strategy Advisor, EON Sweden.

Passionate about Energy Transition within the largest Power grid company in Nordic.

Specialties: Strategy Development / Implementation, Leadership, Transformation, Digital, IT management, Program Management, M&A, OT

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Thomas Madsen, Enterprise Architect & Head of SAP data Lab Copenhagen

Karl Bergström, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Enterprise Architect in the presale area. Focusing on S/4 HANA and The intelligent Enterprise.

On November 15 and 16, We teamed up in the SAP Copenhagen Experience Center. 25 customers and partners viewed SAPTechED 2022 together. Thomas Madsen and Karl Bergström summarize TechEd and the CxC event in this podcast episode.

Thomas Madsen, Enterprise Architect & Head of SAP data Lab Copenhagen

Karl Bergström, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Enterprise Architect in the presale area. Focusing on S/4 HANA and The intelligent Enterprise.