Günter Pecht

In the Future of Work team, we understand that the competitive difference for businesses today, lies in their ability to build a culture where innovation thrives. The technology solutions our team develops, help create that culture by tapping the innovative potential of the organization's greatest asset - their people

My role was to enable businesses to be more agile and innovative by creating more inclusive leadership cultures, collaborative processes and more transparency through innovative cloud business applications and impactful go-to-market approaches for SAP solutions.

Led game-changing innovation projects for Business ByDesign including running ByDesign on a new in-memory database and adapting the ByDesign applications to the new in-memory capabilities. Created innovative mobile apps for iphone and Androide including the Personal Event Manager introduced at TechEd 2010, as well as process analytics and process navigation for Business ByD.

Led the Solution Management Team for SAP’s product technology platform which included defining the future platform strategy for SAP products, prototyping real-time, in-memory analytics for the SAP Business Suite and evolving the next generation programming model for business application on the next generation ABAP platform.

Held the role of Chief Architect for the on-demand product Business ByDesign, and led the ByDesign Architecture Team with the goal of defining the overall architecture for the new on-demand ByDesign solution for the mid-market in close alignment with the technology group.

Designed a process-oriented architecture for business applications within the new application platform (as the basis for ByDesign) and led the POA architecture team.

Development manager responsible for the R/3-APO integration framework (APO-CIF) and managing a virtual team of application developers for application integration. Developed the integration framework APO-CIF for the integration of SAP APO with the Business Suite. Developed application integration content for integration of end-to-end processes between SAP APO and the Business Suite. This role required close cooperation with the field and customers.

Developer and second level support for production orders in R/3. This role included close cooperation with customers, redesign of the production order infosystem and setting up the production order test infrastructure and test plans.