Twan van den Broek

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 .

Last week SAP granted us " Validated Expertise Partner on Enterprise Mobility ". Needless to say that we are very happy with that. A taken of appreciation of all the good work that we do on this area. Which reminds me to remind you our new mobility event on October 11th: " It's APP 2 U ", or on the Twitterverse: #ItsAPP2U . This time we organize an app challenge , send in your idea for an enterprise mobility app. The winner is selected by a Facebook voting mechanism. Everybody is allowed to vote on the ideas, the 3 with the most "Likes" make it to the finals on October 11th. With an explanation of the business case and the enterprise mobility suggestion, a professional jury selects the winner. Ciber NL offers the winner to realize the app for FREE. To do so we plan a geek night together with customer representatives and our mobile experts. Order some cola and pizza and off we go ... It's APP 2 U - Join our Ciber NL app challenge on Enter...

The Garbage Collector - A cloud solution that simplifies your waste administration process. Deliver a simplified waste administration process to truck drivers and weigh bridge operators. See how SAP NetWeaver Cloud with SAP NetWeaver BPM and SAP UI5 actually facilitate a process that usually is handled in all kind of paper documents. The Garbage Collector is a solution for waste companies that want to facilitate their administrative process with their customers. Within a customer self service portal a truck with cargo is pre-announced. At arrival the truck's license plate gets scanned and the appropriate details from SAP will be presented to the operator at the weigh bridge. After the truck is weighed, the weight will be entered into the application and sent to SAP. The process ends with sending an invoice to the customer. In the case a customer order is not present in the backend system, the application triggers a message that the truck is unknown and the customer de...

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.

A personalized dashboard at a glance What about entering your office in the morning and get a personalized dashboard at a glance? That was our DemoJam idea that we brought to stage at VNSG last week. Our script: Motorman Stoei enters and gets the train schedule presented Manager Broekemans enters and sees the motorman delay dashboard As this is not the first time Stoei has serious delays on his schedule, Broekemans decides to ask for a demotion  HR manager de Vries has the UWL as a personal dashboard and sees the request from Broekemans As she agrees with Broekemans, she approves the request. Within SAP HR Stoei gets demoted When Stoei passes the dashboard again, he notices that he has a new job: moving coals to the oven What did we use: Kinect camera for face recognition Microsoft Visual Studio to build face recognition software SAP HR for organizational structure SAP BO for motorman delay dashboard SAP Portal and UWL for task list A lot of spare time ...

As SAP Mentor I am invited to SAP's DKOM , Developer Kick off Meeting. I feel very honored, not only that I got invited, but also to host a session on the "Magic of scrum in the SAP world". Guess you won't be surprised that I will do a talk on scrum ;-) Just tried to assemble my agenda for Thursday and Friday. This was even more difficult than for SAP TechEd. Too many great sessions planned on the same time slot. HANA, Mobility, Gateway, PI / BPM and portal, I feel like a kid in a candy store ;-) Purple - SAP Mentor sessions Green - My talk on SAP and scrum.

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 .

A replay of yesterday's SAP Mentor Monday ( #SAPMM ) is available at SDN . A webinar where Björn Goerke , Dagfinn Parnas and I shared experiences on scrum within the SAP world. A highly interactive session with interesting discussions. More info (and other replays) available at SAP Mentor Monday wiki .

The magic of scrum Everyone is interested in the golden key to enforce successful projects. Nobody wants to be disappointed with the results after a few months, or even years, hard work. Time to apply some magic to SAP projects? Is that possible? Is scrum the magic word , is it a silver bullet? Why is scrum getting more popular in the SAP world? What do people want to achieve while looking at agile methodologies? According to the 2010 Version One investigation , it is about (amongst others): Accelerate time to market  Enhance ability to manage changing priorities  Improve alignment between IT and business  At talks about applying scrum to the SAP world I often hear the following expectations: Bring in the business!  Enable team spirit  Bring fun to team  It brings opportunities to business  Show software deliveries frequently to all stakeholders  Expectation management, what do I really need  Facilitate delivery process with...

On our internal CIBER knowledge carousel I did a talk on how SDN can boost your career. If you share your knowledge, others can learn from you. But at the same time you can learn from others. Learn by Sharing! SAP communties rock! View more presentations from Twan van den Broek . Read a recap by Arjen van der Sluijs on Storify .

Some Demo Jam thoughts The Demo Jam is a very powerful event at SAP TechEd to show latest innovations by customers, partners and SAP. No sales pitch allowed. No powerpoints or prezis. Just your demo and a timer set at 6 minutes. I even remember some teams doing live coding on stage. The last few years a lot is said on the Demo Jam event. It has become a marketing event for SAP, the rules of the game have been changed, it's only SAP on stage, ... Maybe you can recall the lively twitter stream during and after last year's Demo Jam. Thorsten Franz already wrote a great blog on the Genuine Demo Jam Awesomeness and he refers to another great blog by Michael Koch , What Is Wrong With SAP TechEd Demo Jam 2009 . Please allow me to share some thoughts on the Demo Jam as well. What makes Demo Jam so great? Live shows on stage by fellow SAP NetWeaver enthusiasts , some very serious and others hilarious  Customers, Partners and SAP employees willing to offer spare (own) time t...

On the very last (look how tired I am ;-) day of SAP TechEd 2011 SAP Mentors got interviewed on their role within the SAP community. Watch the complete series on Meet the SAP Mentors at YouTube.

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 ...

Another recap on this years #sitNL . Let's have a look at the tweets that have been published. A tool like TwUniverse provides a lot of fun. Thanks to Martijn Linssen . 872 tweets, starting at 20 Nov 2011 18:50:33 and ending at 28 Nov 2011 07:08:24 on: #sitNL. That is 4.84 per hour Top 10 most active participants @steinermatt (78=9%)  @fredverheul (59=7%); @qmacro (56=6%) @martijnlinssen (49=6%) @thorstenster (45=5%)  @wolf_gregor (44=5%) @tbroek (36=4%)  @ttrapp (33=4%) @mgillet (33=4%) @lvhengel (27=3%) Top 10 influential (based on getting RT-ed) @qmacro (26 = 9.8%) @fredverheul (18 = 6.8%) @wolf_gregor (17 = 6.4%) @steinermatt (14 = 5.3%) @tbroek (13 = 4.9%) @boobboo (12 = 4.5%) @roelvdberge (11 = 4.2%)  @thorstenster (10 = 3.8%) @lvhengel (10 = 3.8%) @jpenninkhof (9 = 3.4%) Top 10 most mentioned @tbroek (62 = 9.6%) @jpenninkhof (50 = 7.7%) @thorstenster (44 = 6.8%) @qmacro (40 = 6.2%) @stein...

What could possibly motivate 70+ people to come together on a Saturday in Eindhoven? Was it to: Share passion with 70+ geeks and peers? Exchange business cards from 30+ different companies? Attend one of the 14 expert sessions? Meet with one the 11 (!) SAP Mentors? Shake hands with one the 5 DemoJam heroes? Enjoy Mrs. Penninkhof’s dinner? It was - of course - all of the above. And it was a blast; the third SAP Inside Track in the Netherlands proved once again that the SAP community rocks ! Please continue reading on my SDN blog . It contains 2 interesting tweets and 17 replays of the day. sitNL speakersclub 2011 (Sven van Leuken and William van Strien missing) sitNL participants cloud

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 , ...

At this years SAP TechEd, I hosted two expert sessions (EXP479 and EXP592) in the SAP Mentor corner. I have some good memories on the sessions as I expected a maximum of 15 people to discuss scrum within SAP projects. But it turned out that around 60 people joined me. So much for interactive discussions :) Here you can see me sharing experiences on 4 projects in the Netherlands doing  scrum  in the  SAP  world. Thanks to Roel for taking the picture. Scrum and SAP, magic? Only at Hogwarts? View more presentations from Twan van den Broek . Maybe you are interested in my SAP Inside Track Bonn presentation as well: 20100220 Sit Bonn V1 0 View more presentations from Twan van den Broek

SAP TechEd season is over. In Madrid we had 699 sessions. That means: 860 hours of SAP TechEd stuff; 36 days non stop; 108 working days (8 hours each); 224 expert sessions; 202 lectures; 164 pod sessions; 106 handson sessions. A lot of knowledge to absorb. And now I'm trying to recap that in only one blog post ;-) First, let's do the short version: SAP TechEd 2011 in only 3 words: HANA , Mobility and Innovation SAP is sending out a stable message. The core is to be stable and flexibility is to be provided to endusers. Huge investments are made to enable 'your own' apps to connect to the SAP backend. With Gateway, Sybase and DUET, SAP realizes that they need to open up. With mobility and other end user platforms the power is back to where it belongs: the end user . The person who actually wants to get work done in the most efficient and effective way, regardless of whatever backend system is underneath. Let's go back to Vishal'...