Twan van den Broek

** 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 .

Next generation expectations Imagine that you are part of the current studying generation. With all the hard effort you are eager to start your professional life soon. You are common to use Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Evernote and other fancy 'apps' to fulfill your needs. Apps with a great user experience - all designed with you as a consumer of the app as a starting point. And then … you start your first day at the office - you get a welcome, a cup of coffee and your own desk with a desktop running SAP with its famous blue screens … Guess you can see the contrast of IT solutions (apps) that you got used to while in college and the IT solution (SAP) that your company is using. Design Thinking Why this huge contrast? Well we all know that on the topic of user experience there is enough to improve in the SAP world. That's why SAP is spreading the word around Design Thinking these days. And that is a good thing! Balance Business viability, Human desirability and T...

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.

Magic of scrum with SAP from Twan van den Broek At SAP TechEd in Madrid I hosted two expert sessions, EXP299 and EXP300, to share real life project experiences on doing scrum with SAP projects. Interesting discussions, as most of the times the following questions arise: SAP projects can't be done with scrum, they're just too big How can you start a project without blueprinting How can you start sprinting without specifications An SAP team is formed with specialists, how to deal with that Multiple business representatives are involved, multiple product owners? Let me try to answer them shortly. SAP projects just too big? SAP projects can be big, cover a multi year implementation strategy, but it's just a way of splitting large programs into smaller projects that can be understood by everyone involved. Scrum supports you in focusing, what adds the most business value, it's better to work on something that you can oversee than on something that yo...

Before we start, maybe some background music by Dire Straits? Guess  Where Do You Think You're Going  is quite applicable ;-) I got a bit confused last week and I wanted to share my confusion with you and hope that my SAP mobile life gets demystified. So, SAP Mobile - Quo Vadis? SAP's three pillars  Now we all know SAP's 3 main pillars: Cloud Mobile HANA Needless to say that SAP shares a lot of PowerPoint slides and stories around these topics at events like SAPphire NOW and SAP TechEd, at local events like SAP Forum, press conferences and here on SDN and other sites. Last week SAP held a very important press conference,  the announcement of #SAPonHANA . And to be honest - it made me feel a bit jealous. Great story telling, together with customers and partners SAP shows the added value of running SAP on HANA. There is plenty of training material to be found in the HANA academy, a developer license, contact persons, … bottom line: SAP is s...

If you're doing any business with SAP, being SAP consultant or SAP user, you should not have missed last week's press conference where SAP announced SAP's business suite on HANA . A long expected message, but thrilling even so. It shows how serious SAP is taking In Memory technology. And even more, analyst Dennis Howlett , identified SAP's stepping stone into the cloud future , from #SAPonHANA into SAP's business suite in the cloud. Following the path so successfully set by Salesforce . A lot can be found on SDN or other analyst sites. Please allow me to point out and summarize three blogs. My advice to you: start with reading, jump into other reading material, subscribe to developer licenses and start getting your hands dirty. And by that make up your mind. The SAP world is changing rapidly, important for System Integrator's as they have to change their business model accordingly. 2013 is the year of making choices. Find out, as System Integrator, to whic...

SAP Inside Track the Netherlands - About Communities and Families Also published on SDN . "A picture is worth a 1000 words" - an old saying, and this saying will help me writing this blog   How else can I explain all the good vibes that we felt at SAP Inside Track the Netherlands? Maybe with the one word explanation by Thorsten Franz  " Community ", immediately followed by Mrs. Penninkhof with " Family ". Well then, nothing more to add ;-) You can see for yourself in our recap movie: What did  our agenda  offer to our 45 attendees and 17 online participants? Well at least it was a long 'sit'. Still laughing at the end of the day ... Recap in thousand pictures: Welcome and opening Twan van den Broek Prezi Replay  - sorry for bad sound First experiences with ABAP on HANA Tobias Trapp  and  Thorsten Franz An opening session by Tobias and Thorsten, two self declared kids in a t...