Twan van den Broek

Once again our Ciber SAP User Experience event , this time all the recordings are available. Thanks to Carl Adams for initiating and thanks to Ted, Roel, Wim and Leo for recording their sessions. A short glimpse of possibilities on how to make your end users HAPPY with: User Centered Design & Delivery as methodology SAP Screen Personas  SAP Fiori SAPUI5 Intro by Ted Castelijns and User Centered Design & Delivery by Twan van den Broek . SAP Screen Personas by Twan van den Broek .

Another strange moment in my professional life, I will leave Ciber to join The Next View  March 1st. Time to have a short retrospective . Team picture at outing 2010 First of all I am proud , proud on our SAP NetWeaver team: Alice, Arnaut, Bernard, Dave, Dennis, Frank, Guido, Harrie, Iemke, Igor, Jeroen, Juan-Jose, Laurens, Leo, Marc, Michael, Ravi, Roel, Ronan, Sanket, Steven, Ted, Tim, Wim and Vladimir. 

Yesterday the Ciber Kickstarter 2013 finals took place. Five finalists took the stage and presented their idea to the jury in order to win the “innovator of the year award”.  Some background How did we get there? What started out as “ So You Think You Can Innovate ” in 2011 and 2012, turned into Ciber Kickstarter in 2013. Still a gamification of innovation ideas, extended with a ‘social’ element:  Submit your idea on our site and get funding to work on your project. Funding not like real money, but with friends, people who like your idea on LinkedIn with a voting button. To make it to the next round the jury evaluated every idea on a few aspects: Innovative value Fit with Ciber portfolio Presentation of the idea  Number of votes on LinkedIn With the initiative we want to create a platform to facilitate innovative ideas. Don’t just think of it, create it! See how it grows into a working prototype. Get support and coaching from Ciber management and join...

The Future is NOW!  That was our main theme for an SAP User Experience event on October 3rd. It is referring to the current possibilities to improve the user experience within the SAP world without having to migrate to the latest new release of ECC. You can do it today! And that is a good thing as User Experience (UX in short) is hot, even for SAP as it is one of SAP’s main focus points for 2013. We all know where SAP came from with the grey/blue transaction screens ;-)  Picture from SAP Design Guild , some more historic screens at their site. Finally we now realised that it not about the transaction to be executed but about an end-to-end business process . And to really support the user of this process a user-friendly user interface is key. It is the difference between searching for the information you need and supporting your business process. That is how you can identify a good user experience.

** Update ** Due to the fact that we used real songs as background music, we were requested to remove all the content :( See how Ciber's SAP NetWeaver Man brings new and innovative solutions. Want to know more? Visit us at VNSG on April 18 and 19. SAP NetWeaver Man starring in our YouTube playlist. For mobile users Vimeo is a better option: SAP HANA to speed up your application systems. IT's all in the game voor Ciber tijdens de VNSG jubileumeditie! from sven van leuken on Vimeo . Ciber ProfitBoost to see where you can gain more profit. IT's all in the game voor Ciber tijdens de VNSG jubileumeditie! from sven van leuken on Vimeo . Ciber mTime for mobile Time Writing. IT's all in the game voor Ciber tijdens de VNSG jubileumeditie! from sven van leuken on Vimeo . SuccessFactors to support in long lasting appraisal periods. IT's all in the game voor Ciber tijdens de VNSG jubileumeditie! from sven van leuken on Vimeo . ...

With less than two weeks time to the VNSG, another episode starring SAP NetWeaver Man. This time he offers SuccessFactors. A cloud solution that helps to lessen stress in long appraisal periods. IT's all in the game voor Ciber tijdens de VNSG jubileumeditie! from sven van leuken on Vimeo .

Last week SAP organized an SAP Forum on Enterprise Mobility. We were able to host a  UCD 2  workshop. With a group of 14 visitors, strangers to each other, we were able to execute the 3rd step in our  UCD 2  process: the Workshop. Margreet and I to explain what  UCD 2  is and how to 'behave' during the workshop: Group 1 starting up: Group 2 reads the case and starts discussing: Collaboration and co-creation in progress: Presenting the end results: Interested? Please join us at VNSG (Dutch SAP User Group Convention), April 18 and 19: UCD 2  and BI Thursday session 1 and session 2 UCD 2  and enterprise mobility Friday session 1 and session 2 Our complete photo book is available on Flickr.

IT's all in the game voor Ciber tijdens de VNSG jubileumeditie! from sven van leuken on Vimeo . Another job for SAP NetWeaver Man ;-) Boost your profit with our SAP HANA solution - Ciber ProfitBoost . More details in a blog by Sven van Leuken .

A next episode from SAP NetWeaver Man on his way to #VNSG13. See how a cumbersome Time Writing process is being simplified by mTime - a mobile Time Writing solution. IT's all in the game voor Ciber tijdens de VNSG jubileumeditie! from sven van leuken on Vimeo .

This year at #VNSG13 ( Dutch SAP User Group Convention ) we will present to you: IT's all in the game and SAP NetWeaver Man who will bring innovative solutions to you. Thanks to Sven van Leuken for his amazing ideas and movie making skills.

This year we did some collaboration with our SRM colleagues. Service lines SAP NetWeaver and SAP SRM came up with the idea to bring Enterprise Mobility back to earth . To show so we found dare-devil-colleague Diederick Bossenbroek who agreed to do some abseiling from SAP HQ NL. Together with Jan Laros they first did a presentation on Enterprise Mobility: Nice hype, but what is Enterprise Mobility? Where do I start? What about security? Can you accompany me, I don't like a ' big bang '. And after convincing Diederick, he came back to earth. More pictures in my Flickr album .

On our yearly outing we went out for some nice diving/sailing at the Vinkeveense plassen . See some die hard ABAP, PI, Portal, -SAP NetWeaver- specialists working hard (?) on the lake. More pictures in my Flickr album.

In March two important events are planned around our Enterprise Mobility proposition. Together with Jan, Roel and Wim we will spread our message. March 15, CIBER knowledge carousel Enterprise Mobility, the road ahead. By Jan Laros and Twan. SAP Enterprise Mobility. By Roel van den Berge and Wim Snoep. March 22, SAP Mobility Innovation Forum Improve your invoice pace and accuracy with mobile time writing. By Jan Laros and Twan. Read more in our (NL)  press release .

When we (service line managers CIBER ) got together to share our plans for 2012, I decided to not do a powerpoint or prezi again. Back to a small cue card and only supported by 6 songs. Doing things differently in order to make sure that the SAP NetWeaver message could not be forgotten by my colleagues. In my presentation I asked what songs I was playing and what would be the link to my story. In this blog I will help you with that ;-) Plans for CIBER's SAP NetWeaver service line on four topics: People, Projects, Innovation and Promotion. First song was Doe Maar – 'Is dit alles / Is this everything', a song by a famous Dutch band from the 80’s. The song states that you have everything that you want but that there still is this feeling that there must me more … As I stated in a previous blog, I am very proud on our 2011 achievements.  It was a good year, but I still think that there is more to achieve with our team. People On the People site, we are growing towa...

Proud! Just one word to describe 2011. Proud that our SAP NetWeaver team grew with 8 new colleagues.  Proud on the fact that we cover a broad perspective on SAP NetWeaver services. Proud that we collaborate and co-innovate with our colleague service lines. Proud on our innovative ideas that are covered in our business development program. Proud on the results that we have achieved with our customers. Trust! And again just one word to announce 2012. Trust that the CIBER SAP NetWeaver club is going to book more successes. Trust that our expertise gets acknowledged with Special Expertise Partnership by SAP. Trust in delivering new innovative ideas. Trust in my colleagues that make our SAP NetWeaver team. Some highlights : Participation within the “ So You Think You Can Innovate ” competition with 2 entries in the final.  From idea to realization with mTime , our mobile time writing solution with Sybase.   Participation in InnoJam Den Bosch and ...

And the winner of our So You Think You Can Innovate competition is: Flexible Workflow Wizard Innovators:  Diederick Bossenbroek ,  Ravi Santani Second: View on Healthcare Innovator:  Luc de Bruijn And third: mTime Innovators:  Jan Willem Kroneman ,  Leon Zijlstra ,  Roel van den Berge ,  Louis van de Wiele It was a close - very close - call. The rating was based on 2/3 by customer/CIBER jury and 1/3 by tweets. It turned out that the tweets with #FWW pushed them to the nr. 1 position. Congratulations Diederick (Service line SRM) and Ravi (Service line SAP NetWeaver). We were very proud to have a jury that consisted of a selected group of honorable CIO’s and IT managers of CIBER’s key customers in the Netherlands including NXP, Attero, VGG, IFF and Royal BAM. A great competition that even made it to our local newspaper:  Eindhovens Dagblad . So for sure a sequel is planned in 2012, we will even try to make it an inte...

Tomorrow is a great day with the CIBER NL finals for our internal innovation competition: "So You Think You Can Innovate" What started out with an idea by Mario Smit , lead to a serious competition. From the original 18 participants presenting their idea in the auditions of May, now only 3 are left to 'fight' the final battle. Voting will be done with a jury of highly valuated customer representatives, counting for 2/3 of the end result. The remaining 1/3 is the public jury voting with the Twitter hashtag #SYTYCI . So who is competing tomorrow? Flexible Workflow Wizard (#FWW) Innovators: Diederick Bossenbroek , Ravi Santani The Flexible Workflow Wizard is an innovation that let customers create and maintain their procurement workflows in a user friendly centralized web based cockpit environment. Flexible Workflow Wizard: DEMO from Wiel Moonen on Vimeo . mTime (#mTime) Innovators: Jan Willem Kroneman , Leon Zijlstra , Roel van den Berge , ...

The Dutch SAP Mafia (SCNotty) from Twan van den Broek on Vimeo . Our #CIBERnl entry to this years SCNotty competition. The idea originated out of a statement by @thorstenster when he decided to join the #sitNL in 2010. "Finally my chance to meet the Dutch SAP mafia." Well you can meet us in person during the SAP TechEd in Madrid. (And you don't want to mess with us ;-)

A different meeting this time, a barbecue with CIBER's SAP NetWeaver's. A great evening with lovely weather for us fortunates. More pics in my SAP NetWeaver BBQ album .

Last Friday we celebrated 12,5 years of CIBER NL. The band was formed by 10 colleagues. A good atmosphere and a good party!