Data Lab Dialogues

In a conversation with Thomas Nørmark, head of innovation at NTT Data we discuss topics as diverse as metaverse, digital sensing, innovation processes, service-oriented architectures. Thomas gives examples on NTT Data innovation projects, including digital nose, digital farming and of course the digital human.

Thomas Nørmark, Head of Innovation at NTT Data.

In his role as Global Head of Innovation at NTT Data, Thomas is one of the most experienced profiles in the space of AI and Robotics applied in an SAP context. Thomas has been involved in a wide number of innovation projects all over the world, which gives him the ability to talk out of real experience instead of theory. Over the past years, Thomas has had a deep focus on humanizing technology by the means of digital humans and social robots.

Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasnoermark/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3X6fWnUedk?

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.

In a conversation with Gitte Kvist Hansen, Head of BI and Analytics at Lemvigh-Müller we learn how data is becoming the key asset for a wholesale company in a volatile business environment. We discuss how SAP BI solutions help bring the right data assets to the business for timely decision making. Gitte explains how Lemvigh-Müller has organized themselves for good BI governance using SAP BW and SAP HANA.

Gitte Kvist Hansen, Head of BI & Analytics at Lemvigh-Müller. Gitte comes with a BW developer profile. Love Data. Love tech. Love people.

Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/gitte-kvist-hansen-0423b51/

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 En

In a coffee corner conversation with Karl Kessler from SAP we discuss the benefits of ABAP and how ABAP is evolving in a cloud world. ABAP is still very useful and is being augmented for use in hybrid scenario where some workloads run in SAP S/4HANA and some in the Business technology platform. We discuss how ABAP consultants should prepare for the future.

Karl joined SAP back in the 90’s. Since then he has worked as a product manager for SAP technology.

Today, Karl is responsible for the product management and rollout of SAP BTP ABAP Environment (Steampunk) and S/4HANA Cloud ABAP Environment (Embedded Steampunk).

Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/karl-kessler-1a9b353/
• https://blogs.sap.com/2021/09/30/steampunk-is-going-all-in/

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.

In a conversation with Uwe Grigoleit from SAP we discuss the benefits of S/4HANA, options for cloud and the future of ERP. Uwe shares his advice for clients considering S/4HANA and explains how partners and clients can leverage their experience with SAP ECC (The biggest S/4HANA competitor by the way) to secure not just a successful S/4HANA implementation, but also realize the full business potential of S/4HANA.

Dr. Uwe Grigoleit is head of the SAP Global MOVE 360 Solution Area. His focus is on helping SAP customers transform into the cloud and adopt new business models and manage business change at speed. His aim is to increase efficiency and reduce the cost of our customers’ evolution journey.   

Uwe is a highly experienced SAP executive with a background in Sales and Development. He helped launch S/4HANA in 2015 and spent 11 years in Solution Management and Go-to-Market as leader of the Cloud ERP Marketing and Solution Management team. Uwe holds a PhD in Chemistry and Commercial Information Technology from the University of Goettingen, Germany. Uwe is based in Zurich, Switzerland, where he enjoys mountain sports and good food.

Links:

https://www.sap.com/products/s4hana-erp.html

https://www.amazon.de/SAP-3-1-Einf%C3%BChrung-%C3%9Cberblick-CD-ROM/dp/3815572878

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.

In a coffee corner conversation with Tim Back, Chief Development Architect at SAP we learn how SAP approaches low/no-code tooling and how this fit into the overall SAP Architecture

Tim Back, Chief Development Architect – Business Technology Platform, SAP

Links:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x2A49ivGGk
• https://www.sap.com/products/business-technology-platform/low-code.html

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.

In a conversation with Kristina Kunad, Solution Owner – Enable Now at SAP we learn how good learning tools can help increase user adoption.

Change Management is a challenging discipline. Overcoming the obstacles posed by the power of habit is no easy feat. In-application learning and process assistance can help simplify adoption of new solutions and ways of working. SAP’s enable now solution provide in-application help and guidance including rich standard content, but also with the capability for developers, consultants, and process owners to create their own content specific to their application, solution design or process implementation.

Kristina Kunad, Solution Owner Enable Now, SAP

Kristina has been working for SAP for almost 10 years. After getting her degree in Psychology from the University of Mannheim, she started at SAP in the HCM consulting area. Her main topics in consulting were SAP Learning Solution, which was later replaced by SuccessFactors Learning, and SAP Enable Now.

After eight years on the road as a consultant and trainer for both applications, Kristina joined the Training & Adoption Customer Engagement team two years ago. As a product expert for SAP Enable Now, she was responsible for the EMEA/MEE regions customer adoption – her tasks ranging from delivering webinars, writing blogs to 1:1 customer meetings. Also, she supported the enablement of the Customer Engagement Executives with deep dives and reports.

Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristina-kunad-7ba21246/
• SAP Enable Now Community
• SAP Enable Now Solution Brief
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IJaHeyVda4

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.

In a conversation with Ole Jedrzejczyk from Deloitte we discuss best practice S/4HANA project execution and some of the tools that help make project execution simpler and less risky. We learn what Application Lifecycle Management is all about and discuss solutions such as Solution Manager, Cloud ALM, Signavio and Deloitte advisory.

But we also hear about the soft skills required to be successful at SAP project execution.

Ole Høgfeldt Jedrzejczyk, Senior Manager – Nordic Offering Lead – SAP Technology Transformation at Deloitte

Ole is heading the Technology Transformation area in the Nordic for Deloitte customers and leading the Technology Community in the Nordic.

For more than 25 years, Ole has worked in the technical area of SAP, from the good old ABAP Classic and ALE/IDOC integration via Netweaver and SAP Cloud Platform to the newest development platform BTP. Since 2014 Ole has advised and guided projects and companies to ensure the best possible use of S/4HANA. Ole and his team have helped avoid especially the technical pitfalls of S/4HANA transformations and thus guaranteed good and sturdy solutions.

Throughout his career, Ole has worked for a broad section of SAP companies in many trades. With his extensive technical knowledge and insight combined with a profound sense of business principles and good communication skills, Ole is a strong sparring partner at Deloitte in the field of SAP. Over the last years, Ole has focused on developing strong governance in SAP implementation projectsd using Solution Manager, Focused Build, and now SAP Cloud ALM. A fascinating journey with the SAP ALM CoE team in Deloitte Nordics.

Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/olejedrzejczyk/

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.

In a conversation with Tapan Kumar Dash from Maersk Technology we learn about some of the SAP initiatives under way at Maersk and how Maersk Finance transformation sets new standards for an SAP roll-out. We learn how IT and business collaborate to bring new solutions in production.

Tapan Kumar Dash, Engineering Director in Maersk Technology

Tapan is Managing the Global Corporate Finance Applications portfolio across Maersk business units, covering full spectrum of Design, Build programs and Operations. In his role, Tapan is responsible across Maersk’s SAP estate, and non-SAP global applications used in Maersk Finance line of business. 

A bit of background on Tapan:

• More than 20 years of Technology experience
• More than 10 years of experience in Technology Consulting space with large global clients in Europe and Americas, while working at PwC consulting and IBM Business Consulting
• Last 10 years + with Maersk with Technology leadership roles, driving and leading multiple technology transformation programs, building strong technology competency and people leadership roles

Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/tapan-dash-ba59a5/

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.

In a conversation with Peter Kreiner-Sasady, CTO at INVIXO we learn how application integration is becoming simpler and simpler. Peter takes us through SAP integration history and gives his perspective on the benefits of low/no-code tools. We discuss how event-based integration will change the way we think integration and learn how INVIXO add value to the SAP portfolio.

Peter Kreiner-Sasady, CTO of INVIXO.

Peter has been working with SAP Integrations from 2003, starting with SAP XI 2.0 all the way to SAP Integration Suite. He has recently become more technology agnostic, learning multiple other integration platforms, so he knows which tool to use when. He is mostly working as technical solution architect with large projects and develop new tools to enable technology and optimize time spent developing integrations and enforcing proper governance via ie. DevOps.

Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-kreiner-sasady-03a193/
• https://invixo.com/

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.

In a conversation with Michael Nielsen, Lead Infrastructure Manager at Velliv we learn how Velliv managed to establish an IT infrastructure from the ground up as they were divested from Nordea. Michael gives insights into their SAP landscape and explains how HEC (HANA Enterprise Cloud) was crucial to their establishment of an SAP landscape in a new setting. We learn how Michael and his colleague Troels (the 2 man SAP department) manages a complex SAP landscape spanning private cloud, public cloud and complex integration scenarios to the rest of the Velliv solution landscape.

Michael E. Nielsen, Lead Infrastructure Manager at Velliv

Michael has more than 20 years of experience in the Danish finance and insurance industry from companies like Tryg, Nordea and latest Velliv. In his daily work Michael is an IT Solution architect across multiple midrange and mainframe solutions including integrations to various business partners.

Michael has recently completed a Master of IT Leadership and Management from the IT University of Copenhagen and is currently looking at options for making the transition from specialist to leader.

In an SAP context Michael is solution architect, technical lead and responsible for daily IT operations of Vellivs collective SAP installations.

Links:

http://www.velliv.dk

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mendk/

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

Exploring how data can augment and automate business processes in collaboration with partners and clients using the data lab in the SAP Experience Center Copenhagen.

Karl Bergström, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

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