Refactoring Data Warehouse Landscape

• Architecture workshops with the project team
• Coaching the project team on SAP Business Warehouse, connectivity options, and ABAP development
• Designing and implementing a highly performant, customizable engine for exporting > 200 tabes to a non-SAP Data Warehouse

SAP for Banking Project

• Architecture in an SAP Banking project
• Fit/Gap analysis
• Advising C-level executives, program management, in-house architecture team
• Cost estimate and project planning
• Data center operations planning and outsourcing
• Software license negotiations
• Sizing and landscape planning
• Guidelines
• SAP Banking Services from SAP
• Hands-on implementation of Payment Engine, Fiori Launchpad, S/4 HANA
• SAP Payment Engine
• S/4 HANA Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Controlling
• Fiori apps, Fiori Launchpad, My Inbox
• SAP Cloud Platform, Web IDE, Fiori Elements
• Analytical applications, Core Data Services

License negotiation for a new SAP client

• Reviewing SAP's proposed Bill of Materials
• Recommending license metrics
• Workshops on how to streamline the license shopping list to best serve the client's needs

Data center SAP outsourcing project

• First-generation outsourcing project at a financial institution
• System landscape was being defined - and at the same time outsourced to hosting provider
• Technical specification incl. sizing of large-scale (100+ servers) system landscape
• Definition of Service Levels, SLA, Services, Change Processes
• Bidding process, contract negotiations, vendor selection
• Transformation project to connect customer organization with hosting provider organization

Multiple deep-dive workshops for experienced developers

• Hands-on skills update
• ABAP Objects: Understanding object-oriented analysis, modeling, and development
• NetWeaver 7.50 skills update, new commands, new development model
• HANA-ready development mit CDS Views
• HANA sidecar development with Gateway, BOPF, Floorplan Manager, and SADL
• Stored Procedures, SQL, native HANA development
• Gateway programming and debugging
• SAP Fiori and SAP UI5 architecture, development, and debugging
• ABAP Debugger Deep-Dive: Debugger Scripting, Memory Analysis, advanced techniques

Multiple custom SAP Fiori development projects on ABAP and HANA

• Architecture and technical design
• Developing native HANA data models, stored procedures, and functions
• CDS views and Gateway services
• Analytic services
• SAP Fiori apps with transactional and analytical components

Enabling the Transformation from Data Center to Cloud Software Provider

• Advising at CEO and senior executive level on strategy, business model, and partnerships to evolve from data center to cloud software provider
• Building the skills in the organization to build and maintain custom SAP HANA-based solutions
• Creating the architecture for a suite of HANA-based consumer-facing web and mobile
• Creating guidelines and processes for the newly established development teams
• Sizing, defining hardware and software requirements
• Advising on software licensing and hardware purchasing

Architecting a Customer-facing Innovation Platform for Mobile and Web

• Analyzing pain points in the existing landscape
• Creating the architecture for a HANA-based custom development innovation platform for new business processes
• Defining the criteria and guidelines to develop new solutions with high availability
• Architecting for maximum availability of business data, minimum downtime

Creating a Single-Sign On Solution for NetWeaver Business Client

• Integrating NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC), Business Suite back-ends and Enterprise Portal
• Creating a seamless Single Sign-On experience with custom code
• Saving the client a 1 Million ? investment in an alternative software solution for this Single Sign-On integration

SAP Business Client (NWBC)

• Requirements and feature analysis how SAP Business Client fits into the client?s application landscape and UI strategy
• Deep technical and functional analysis of the viability of cross-application, cross-system, cross-UI-client navigation with NetWeaver Business Client
• Single Sign-On (SSO), analysis, setup and demonstration of various SSO scenarios involving SPNEGO, Kerberos, NetWeaver SSO 3.0, SAPLogon Tickets, and the SAP Enterprise Portal
• Analysis of the restrictions and limitations of NetWeaver Business Client (Desktop and HTML) vs. SAPGui
• Roles and Portal integration strategy
• Object-Based Navigation (OBN), Portal integration, roles customizing, ABAP programming
• Implementation of SAP standard side panels for NWBC
• Design and programming of custom side panels for NWBC
• Web Dynpro ABAP and Floor Plan Manager
• Programming template for custom NWBC side panel CHIPs
• Integration of analytical (SAP Business Warehouse) queries into NWBC
• Integration of external (non-SAP) UIs into NWBC
• Integration of SAP Fiori Launchpad and Fiori applications into NWBC

Operational Analytics: Business Warehouse on ERP

• Defining a strategy for Operational Analytics in SAP landscapes with or without SAP HANA
• Enabling the embedded Business Warehouse (BW) system in SAP ERP and SAP CRM
• Defining an architecture and templates for BW content (InfoCubes, InfoObjects, Queries, Roles) in SAP ERP and SAP CRM
• Concept for the lifecycle management of the operational analytic content
• Developing a proof of concept, coaching the development team and supporting the go-live
• Using the Analytic Engine in combination with Core Data Services (CDS Views)

HTML5-based Management Dashboard for Human Resources Data

• Retrieving, enriching, and aggregating data from SAP Human Capital Management (HCM) and SAP Business Warehouse (BW)
• Exposing information through NetWeaver Gateway (GW) and OData services

Customer-facing Portal and Mobile Apps with SAP Back-end Integration

• Requirements analysis for a customer-facing portal and mobile apps integrating with SAP back-ends
• Security and data protection concept for highly sensitive healthcare data
• High-availability, reducing portal and SAP back-end business downtime
• Architecture and prototype
• SAP HANA integration

Mobile-enabling a client?s IT landscape

• Advising the client in choosing the technology platform and helping define their mobile strategy (for customer-facing and employee-facing mobile apps)
• Transforming the client?s landscape architecture for mobile-enablement with respect to security, authorizations, performance, and flexibility
• Prototype and template development
• Defining and rolling out development guidelines and internal processes for mobile development

Establishing a fast track for business-critical enhancements

• Defining internal processes and development guidelines to establish a fast track for software changes whose fast delivery is critical to the business
• Accelerate the client?s software change process while putting in place tools to ensure quality and stability
• Work with the different stakeholders
• Create and roll out solutions that take into account the specifics of business domains and application-specific development tools
• Coach the first projects that used the new process

UI Technology Strategy

• Advising the client in strategic decisions about user interface technology in a large, heterogeneous SAP and non-SAP application landscape
• Improving user satisfaction and productivity by resolving usability issues
• Evaluating and implementing new UI tools and technologies such as SAP UI5, SAP Screen Personas, Fiori, NetWeaver Business Client, Floorplan Manager for Web Dynpro ABAP
• Prototype and template development
• Defining and rolling out development guidelines for UI development

Hybrid transactional-analytic applications with HANA

• Conducting workshops with end users to identify needs and pain points
• Implementing business logic in SAP HANA
• Embedding analytical views in SAP Business Suite transactions via NWBC Side Panel
• Training the customer in using this application as a template and creating similar apps using the same technology and approach

HANA Accelerator

• Speeding up long-running dialog steps (reducing response times from hours to seconds)
• Creating custom HANA-based accelerators that seamlessly enhance existing development