Data Lab Dialogues

In a conversation with Jacob Lund, Senior Director, Data & Analytics Transformation at NTT Data Business Solutions we learn how NTT can help businesses make sense of their data and how to architect your organization and system architecture in such a way as to reap the full benefit of data, whether they are structured or unstructured. Jacob explains the concept of the Data Fabric and gives us at SAP some feedback on the maturity of the SAP solutions in this context.

Senior Director, Data & Analytics Transformation
NTT Data Business Solutions

Jacob Orup Lund has worked within the SAP space since 1997, initially within Finance (FI/CO), but for the past 20 years the focus has been on Data & Analytics. As a Senior Director with NTT Data Business Solutions, Jacob advises clients within all areas of Data & Analytics, but has a special focus on Data Fabric/Data Platform and on designing architectures and governance models for hybrid SAP and Non-SAP Data & Analytics environments.

Links:

https://nttdata-solutions.com/dk

https://www.k2view.com/data-fabrics-add-augmented-intelligence-to-modernize-your-data-integration?utm_term=data%20fabric&utm_campaign=Search+%7C+MoF+%7C+Data+Fabric&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=6997040935&hsa_cam=13158337332&hsa_grp=121982874386&hsa_ad=537066586280&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-315521872940&hsa_kw=data%20fabric&hsa_mt=p&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqKuKBhCxARIsACf4XuFDySSOM5O5l4tno4SWS2r1I50jLhOl_SfUsBW50JnhcJDuIW5nk-0aAo2bEALw_wcB

Jacob Lund: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-orup-lund-95b685/

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.

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

In a conversation with Joakim Frisberg, Head of Nordic SAP transformation at Accenture we learn how Accenture help businesses reap the benefits of digitalization early on by intelligently de-composing their legacy solution architecture into a mix of cloud offerings and intelligent deployment of value adding services from the SAP business Technology platform. And in doing this they prepare for the shift to SAP S/4HANA, thus making the move much simpler. Accenture call this Smart field (As opposed to green- and brownfield).

Joakim explains how you RISE with SAP and SOAR with Accenture.

Joakim Frisberg, SAP Transformation Lead, Accenture

Joakim Frisberg leads the Nordic SAP Transformation within Accenture. 
He and his team have supported Nordic customers with roadmaps, conversions and full blown transformations to S/4HANA over the last five years.
Joakim started his career with Business Intelligence. Started with Business Objects and then SAP BW.
He led a BW migration to HANA in 2013, Suite on HANA migration in 2016.

Links:

http://www.accenture.com

Frisberg, Joakim [email protected]

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

In a conversation with Martin Verlande, SAP Technology Architect at Norsk Hydro we hear how Hydro adopts new technologies using shaping and safeguarding processes. At Norsk Hydro IT has set aside time to ensure that the maturity of new technology offerings is continuously explored, so that the right technologies are always ready to be adopted when the business need arise. Martin gives a thorough analysis of the SAP Business Technology Platform. What is hot and what is not. We also discuss the key value add of classic SAP in terms of structured CI/CD processes and end-to-end monitoring of business process execution.

Martin Verlande, SAP Technology Architect, Norsk Hydro

Martin has been in the IT industry for many decades and started as a software developer. Eventually Martin ended up in the SAP ecosystem and through a series of different roles as software and enterprise architect is now SAP Technology Architect at Norsk Hydro. Martin is responsible for shaping and safeguarding SAP technology innovations in Norsk Hydro.

Links:

https://www.hydro.com/

Martin Verlande

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

In a conversation with Mikael Walsted, Enterprise Architect at Salling group we hear about a pragmatic approach to enterprise architecture focused on value creation and an ambition to match IT-cost to realized value. But we also learn how Salling IT has been pro-active in their quest to establish a foundation for value creation well in advance of the idea creation. We discuss how the business is active participants in data management topics and how Salling has become truly data driven and what this means to the business.

Mikael Walsted, Enterprise Acrhitect, Salling group

Mikael is Enterprise Architect in Salling Group and have since graduating in 2004 worked with building business value through data and data management. Mikael has architected and developed many BI solutions over the course of his career and is now part of the enterprise architecture team at Salling Group, responsible for establishment of a cross platform architecture that will provide easy, governed access and distribution of data, reports and tools to provide foundation for Salling Groups requirement for establishing a data driven competitive advantage in the retail industry.

Links:

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

https://sallinggroup.com/

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

In a conversation with Christian Pedersen, CFO SAP Nordic we learn a few basics on being a CFO and running a finance organization. A few details on a day in the life of an SAP CFO is shared. We learn how and why SAP has transformed their Finance processes and organization in the past 5-10 years and how S/4HANA has accelerated the change. We discuss the benefits of data transparency and how access to real time reporting simplifies finance execution.

Christian Pedersen, CFO SAP Nordic

Christian is the third certified accountant (out of 7) to guest the DataLabDialogues podcast. Having spent the last 21 years at SAP, Christian knows the SAP financial processes inside and out. Before being appointed CFO in 2017, Christian was Nordic Finance Manager and as such a key contributor to the SAP finance transformation that was initiated in 2011 to ensure that the finance organization and the finance processes were ready for the ambitious growth and acquisition strategy that SAP had formulated at the time.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-pedersen-644743/

https://www.sap.com/denmark/index.html

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

In a conversation with David Colgan from Deloitte we take the pulse of S/4HANA on the Danish market. We learn how the technical aspects of moving to S/4HANA has become so trivial that this is no longer a concern or risk. This means that we more often than not see businesses take on the additional challenge of implementing some sort of data driven business transformation as part of their S/4HANA project. We learn from David how Deloitte is a catalyst for such change. Hear David’s optimistic view on Danish business agility and readiness in the years to come.

David Colgan, Partner – Nordic Lead – SAP-Enabled Digital Transformation at Deloitte

David is heading up Deloitte’s business in SAP-enabled digital transformation throughout Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, and work with the largest Nordic companies on imagining and delivering their digital transformation journeys as well as running their digital operations in the SAP space.

David ensure that the best of Deloitte’s global capabilities across strategy, digital, consulting, tax and risk are brought to our customers to help them become Kinetic Enterprises, made to evolve in the digital age.

Links:

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

https://www2.deloitte.com/dk/da.html

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

In a conversation with Martin Börjesson from TetraPak we hear about the TetraPak approach to data management and how data is catalogued and exposed in a fashion that enable true democratization of data usage.

Learn how TetraPak has established a culture of innovation through creation of lean “Minimum Viable Products” to augment their business processes with data driven solutions.

Learn Martin’s take on “Data Management” and the TetraPak enterprise data strategy, a multi-year program for data enablement that seeks to instill a cross departmental awareness of the poser of data.

Martin Börjesson, Director, Data Management, TetraPak

Martin Börjesson is responsible for Development and implementation of an Enterprise Data Strategy and Data Management Infrastructure at TetraPak.

Martin has spent his career taking clients from A-Z on their business driven AI-journey. Designing, developing and implementing various AI-solutions adding concrete and measurable value.

Strategic advisor to Boards, Executive Mngt focusing in Business Transformation. Creating compelling customer experience, updated core operations and coaching leadership in interesting and challenging times.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinb2/

http://tetrapak.com

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

En samtale om drift af SAP og udrulning af forretningskritiske løsninger i en finansiel virksomhed.

Thomas Hartmann giver sit bud på god skik i en IT-organisation når det gælder rettidig omhu i planlægning af sine forretningskritiske IT-systemer. Thomas beretter hvordan ATP har forandret en IT-organisation med klassiske halvårlige leverancer og en vis portion IT-teknisk gæld til en agil og forretningsorienteret sprint-baseret løsningsfabrik. Hør hvordan ATP benyttede S/4HANA til at simplificere adgang til nøgletal for finansfunktionen og dermed skabte grundlaget for simplere forretningsgange.  

Thomas Hartmann, IT Business Partner & Head of SAP ERP & Technologies at ATP

Thomas is an Experienced leader and has worked with SAP Technologies and also Microsoft technologies for different industries and as such, knows what it takes to get the software to support your daily work but also how you plan to reap the benefits from technologies in order to create value for the business.

Through using different IT operating models Thomas has experienced many ways to deliver IT services or business projects and also how to adopt, develop and control the portfolio of them. The trend to work more agile becomes a larger part of the services provided.

“I am who I am. I make the most of everything that comes my way in life and I’m lucky enough to be doing what I enjoy. Not everyone can say that. I can complain, as many do, but that won’t change anything in my life. I’m really positive in life and then, after you’ve put your all into what you do, things will work as they’re meant to”.

Links:

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

https://www.atp.dk/

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

En samtale om Machine Learning med Frederik Bonde.

• Hvordan kommer man i gang med Machine learning?
• Hvordan organiserer man sig?
• Hvor og hvordan opstår idéerne?
• Hvor søger man hjælp?

Frederik har prøvet det hele og giver sit bud…

Frederik Bonde, Co-Founder at Enablement Business Consulting

Frederik has a master in engineering and has used his engineering skills by applying AI to production processes in the manufacturing industry in Denmark, Asia and the US.

Thomas Madsen, 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.

En samtale om integration i SAP landskaber med Daniel Graversen, Mangeårig integrationsekspert og indehaver af FIGAF.

SAP-landskaber bevæger sig lige så stille fra det monolitiske ERP-system hvor alle processer og applikationer udbydes fra centralt hold til et mere forskelligartet landskab hvor de brugervendte applikationer tilbydes i skyen både af SAP og af andre leverandører.

Dermed øges integrationsudfordringen fra ”blot” at være overførsel af eksterne data til SAP og hovedbogen til nu også at være fra hovedbogen til alle interne og eksterne applikationer, der leverer procesunderstøttende funktionalitet og data.

Hvad betyder det for integrationsspecialisten?

Hør hvordan Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) giver nye muligheder men også udfordringer.

Daniel Graversen, Owner FIGAF, SAP Mentor

Daniel has implemented SAP Integration for 15 years for small and large companies with different types of SAP Tools from XI 3.0 to SAP CPI. He focuses his time on automating the governance process around SAP PI and SAP CPI tool with the Figaf DevOps Tool.

Links:

https://figaf.com

https://www.sap.com/products/cloud-platform/capabilities/integration.html?btp=076e28a8-da7a-4c69-a025-59fab1e55022

Thomas Madsen, 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