Practical Guide to SAP NetWeaver PI - Development

Valentin Nicolescu studied business information management at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. Since 2003, he has worked at the SAP University Competence Center (SAP HCC) at the Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany, where he is responsible for the operation of SAP training systems for higher education throughout Germany and for providing SAP training to higher education teachers. In addition to his focus on components of the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, he is involved in traditional ERP training with SAP R/3 and SAP ERP. He is a certified SAP technology and development consultant XI and a technology consultant Web AS and Enterprise Portal.

Matthias Heiler holds a degree in physics and is a Solution Sales Executive at SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany. After his studies, he worked as a mainframe application developer in the aviation industry, and then as a project manager on international projects in the areas of banking and automotive for a US consulting firm. He has worked at SAP since 1995, first as a trainer in the area of SAP Basis (R/2 and R/3), and then switched to the Sales area in 1999. Today, his focus area is service-oriented architectures, particularly integration platforms and business process management. He also lectures in business processes with SAP systems at the International University of Bruchsal, Germany.

Florian Visintin studied information technology, with economics as his minor subject, at Technische Universität München. He is now a Development Consultant working mainly in the area of SAP NetWeaver. During his studies, he worked in a number of companies including Pentos AG in the area of Lotus Notes, focusing on the SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure.

Professor Burkhardt Funk studied physics and information technology at the universities of Kiel, Würzburg and Stony Brook (USA). After obtaining his PhD degree, he began work in 1997 at McKinsey & Company, where he was a consultant in the areas of retail banking and e-business for international banking institutions. In 2000, he founded his own company. Today, Burkhardt Funk is Professor of Information Management at the University of Lüneburg, Germany. At the Institute for Electronic Business Processes, his areas of work include the business process-oriented integration of business IT systems and the application of web service-based technologies. He is also a managing partner of the Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftsinformatik Lüneburg mbH (Lüneburg Society for Information Management (GWIL)), the main activity of which is carrying out development-intensive projects in the SAP area.

Dr. Holger Wittges obtained his PhD degree from the University of Hohenheim, Germany, under the supervision of Professor Krcmar and with the topic “Connecting Business Process Modeling and Workflow Implementation”. He then worked for three years as an IT project leader with debitel AG in Stuttgart, Germany. Since 2004, he has been operations head of the SAP Hochschul Competence Center (SAP University Competence Center (SAP HCC)) at Technische Universität München. His current research areas are standard software, serviceoriented architectures, and performance metrics in ERP systems. He is also a certified Technology Consultant for SAP NetWeaver―Enterprise Portal & Knowledge Management.