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About... The Brockhaus Group

✔ Founded in 1988 by Dipl.-Ing. Dirk Brockhaus(no relations to Brockhaus Verlag)

✔ Today: group of 3 medium sized, almost independent companies

✔ Companies and offices:

➢ Brockhaus Consulting GmbH: Wiesbaden (Germany)

➢ Brockhaus GmbH: Heidelberg (Germany)

➢ Brockhaus Pvt. Ltd: Bhubaneswar, Odisha (India)


About... Brockhaus Consulting GmbH

Facts

✔ Founded in April 2011 by Matthias Bohnen, former subsidiary of Brockhaus GmbH

✔ 100% privately owned, no venture capital, no investors

✔ Major shareholding of all other companies: (Brockhaus GmbH: 70%, Brockhaus Pvt. Ltd.: 60%)

✔ “Face 2 the customer” (Sales, Marketing, Procurement) for all activities of Brockhaus Group:

➢ Consulting

➢ Training

➢ Coaching

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About... Brockhaus GmbH

Facts

✔ Founded in 2003 by Dirk Brockhaus and Matthias Bohnen

✔ 100% privately owned, approx. 30% of shares hold external (non-employees)

✔ no venture capital, no investors

✔ the 'executing' part of Brockhaus Group

✔ ~ 15 Employees

➢ Consultants

➢ Administrative staff

➢ Apprentices (acknowledged by Industrial and Commercial Chamber (IHK) Heidelberg)

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About... Brockhaus Pvt. Ltd.

Facts

✔ Founded in 2007 in Pune, India (Maharastra state), relocation to Bhubaneswar in Q3/2011

✔ 100% privately owned, no venture capital, no investors

✔ Headed by Dr. Amiya Basiston, former Principal of an Engineering College

✔ Fields of activities

➢ Students exchange programs (PGDAIT) jointly with University of Siegen (until 2012)

➢ Training programs for local students (post-graduate)

➢ Not an off-shoring wing!

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Management

Dipl.-Kfm. Matthias Bohnen

✔ Managing Director and major shareholder of Brockhaus GmbH, Heidelberg,Brockhaus Consulting GmbH, Wiesbaden

✔ Chairman of Brockhaus Technologies & Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Pune / India

✔ Visiting lecturer („Lehrbeauftragter“) at Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln, UCLM Albacete, University of Siegen, Philipps University Marburg and DHBW Mannheim

✔ Visiting lecturer of Biju Patnaik Universities of Technologies, Bhubaneswar (Odisha, India) in 2010 and 2011

✔ Guest Professor in 2012 at SOA Institute, Bhubaneswar (Odisha, India)

✔ approx. 15+ years of experience in IT industries and 10+ years in academic teaching


Management

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Barth

✔ Professor at University of Applied Sciences RFH Köln

✔ Professor at University of Siegen 2002-2009

✔ Visiting lecturer at University of Siegen, Philipps University Marburg, and RFH Köln

✔ Member of Management Team

✔ Head of Brockhaus' SOA Competence Team

✔ Selected research projects:

➢ In-Grid (funded by German Fed. Ministry BMBF)www.ingrid-info.de

➢ Mi#Grid (funded by NRW MIWFT)www.migrid.de

➢ RESCUE IT (funded by German Fed. Ministry BMBF)www.sichere-warenketten.de

Modeling and implementing business processes is one of the key issues in any enterprise's IT.

The concepts of Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) are assessed as the most promising approach to

assure qualities like flexibility and agility in support and management of business processes.

http://www.ingrid-info.de/

http://www.migrid.de/

http://www.sichere-warenketten.de/


The people ...

✔ Almost all consultants are previous students of Prof. Dr. Barth or Matthias Bohnen

✔ Almost all consultants wrote their thesis at Brockhaus Group

✔ Currently we employ:

➢ 7 Consultants in various projects

➢ 2 Backoffice employees (Accounting, secretary)

➢ Several freelancers on-demand

➢ Several other at the companies abroad


Academic cooperations


(Inter)national cooperations in academia

✔ Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln

➢ Professorship (Thomas Barth) and visiting lecturer (Matthias Bohnen)

➢ Collaboration in various fields (e.g. Big Data & Industry 4.0)

➢ Joint educational program in Nairobi / Kenia


(Inter)national cooperations in academia

✔ Universidad Castilla La Macha / Albacete (Spain)

➢ Several courses in the field of Software Development and Software Architecture


International cooperations in academia

✔ Biju Patnaik University of Technologies (Orissa, India)

➢ 40 Colleges with approx. 58.000 students

➢ Tripartite Memorandum of Understanding with University of Siegen and Brockhaus

✔ Vivesvaraya Technological University (Karnataka, India)

➢ 140 Colleges with approx 180.000 students

➢ Tripartite Memorandum of Understanding with University of Siegen and Brockhaus

✔ Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (Orissa, India)

➢ 15.000 students

➢ Top ten ranking positions in Indian rankings


Partners and cooperations ...

… in academia

✔ University of Siegen

➢ Contract partners since 2006 (extended twice in 2008 and 2010) forjoint activities in the field of education, international student exchange etc.

➢ Joint diploma theses for e.g. T-Online

➢ Joint (inter-)national workshops for vodafone D/POR, SAP, Dresdner Bank, ...

➢ Joint positions in student assistentships / research projects

➢ Joint collaboration with international partners (various Universities from India)


Reference: SOA / BPM Roadshow (April 2007)

Joint roadshow between Brockhaus GmbH and University of Siegen

Speakers

• Business Process Management im Auswärtigen AmtSascha Girrulat, IT-Strategie, Auswärtiges Amt

• Die Bedeutung der SOA-GovernanceAndreas Fröhlich, Solution Architect, Software AG

• SAP XI – Legacy IntegrationEmanuel Schlesiger, Business Development Manager SAG Systemhaus GmbH

• SAP Discovery Server - der Einstieg in eine service- basierte Welt.Jewgeni Kravets, Business Development Manager, SAP AG

• Aspekte service-orientierter Workflows– Modellierung und Umsetzung mit BPMN und BPEL 2.0Prof. Dr. - Ing. Thomas Barth, Universität Siegen

• Grundlagen einer SOA – Architektur und die Rolle des Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)Alexander Eitner, Brockhaus GmbH

Consulting/ Development

Training / Coaching

Research / Academia

by Siegener Zeitung


Reference: TEQIP SOA Workshop (March 2008)

Enterprise Java / SOA / BPM workshop for Indian colleges in Karnataka

Funded by World Bank's „Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme“

• 10-day workshop on state-of-the-art topics from software development, distributed systems and business computing:

• Java SE/EE

• Service-oriented architecture

• Business Process Management

• Participants were mostly faculty from Computer Science department of Bagalkot CET

• Media attention for educational issues:

• Reports on Indian national TV from opening ceremony

• Former Vice Chancellor of VTU (Dr. K.B. Reddy) attended closing ceremony


Training / Coaching

Research / Academia


Master Thesis: Industry 4.0, CEP and Big Data

Joint Master Thesis in the field of Complex Event Processing and Big Data Storages in production lines within the automotive industries

The master thesis of Steffen Templin was done in collaboration of Dürr Systems, University of Siegen and Brockhaus Group.

• Real-time analysis of complex events from several streams / sensors in production processes

• Storing large amounts of sensor data in NoSQL datastores

• Prototypical implementation using OpenSource technologies (WSO2 CEP / ESB, MongoDB)


Training / Coaching

Research / Academia


Reference: eLearning system based on ILIAS

Internal eLearning System (German / English) covering all trainings and workshops available


Training / Coaching

Research / Academia


Selected customers and projects


Selected References

• 1&1• Amadeus• AXA• Aareal Hypotheken

Management• Auswärtiges Amt• Axentiv• BKK• Boehringer Ingelheim• Cellent AG• Deutsche Post• Dresdner Bank• Dell• GiS• Lufthansa Systems• Nürnberger

Versicherungsgruppe

„Unser Kunde - und somit auch wir - waren mit dem Berater und den Ergebnissen seiner Arbeit sehr zufrieden“

Projektmanager der plenum AG über Beratung und Coaching im Rahmen eines Projektes zur Portierung einer Mainframe-Anwendung in eine J2EE Umgebung unter Evaluierung der Bea WebLogic Suite.

"Unsere Partnerschaft mit Brockhaus hat sich für unsere Kunden und Versata selbst durch die kompetente Beratung und einen wirkungs-vollen Know-how-Transfer im Bereich des JBoss Applicationservers bereits heute gelohnt. Brockhaus Trainer und Consultants zeichnen sich durch ihre hohe fachliche und soziale Kompetenz aus.„

Achim F.v.Montigny, Geschäftsführer Versata GmbH

• Orbis• OTTO Versand• OVB• Porsche• R&V Versicherungen• SAP • Sparkassenverlag• T-Online, T-Systems• Telefonica o2• vodafone• Voest Alpine• Volkswagen Coaching• Eon• Dürr• Brückner• Mercedes

Training / Coaching customer's statements

approx: 70 developer, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB).„.. that (EJB 2.0) training was comprehensive and excellent.

I recommend that training really.“ --- Oliver Schweim, OTTO VERSAND

Training of approx. 70 employees about J2EE-Technology. „..the training was customised to our needs exactly.... Good communication between trainer and participants .. That training have been met our expectations completely.“

--- delegate of T-SYSTEMS

WebServices-Workshop.„.. The course was good in respect of content, well structured .. with an excellent trainer.“

--- delegate of SAP AG

BEA WebLogic-Training.„..the best course, i have ever been visited. Partially better than the courses of the

vendor“´--- delegate of START AMADEUS

JAVA for SAP/ABAP developer„... Very capable trainer, ... Optimal course books, ... An excellent training“

--- delegate of PASS CONSULTING AG


Workshop: SOA for Managers

One day workshop covering all relevant SOA aspect from a management's perspective

• Technical as well as organizational issues• Aspects of closing the “business/IT divide”• Covering the complete way from modelling a

business process to its actual implementation/automation

• Reference model/architecture (e.g. from OASIS, Open Group)

• Maturity models (e.g. from Open Group)• Case studies from different industries

Selected customers so far:• vodafone Germany / Düsseldorf• vodafone Portugal / Lisbon• SAP Systems Integration, Bensheim • Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt• PASS IT, Aschaffenburg


Training / Coaching

Research / Academia


Reference: SAP eLearning

45 min eLearning for internal use at SAP AG

SAP University wants to introduce SAP's strategy in areas of eSOA globally

• Brockhaus was chosen due to several trainings given in the area of Java / Enterprise Java

Brockhaus' tasks and objectives:

• Defining educational scheme and didactical approach

• Content rework, storyboarding

• Supervising technical implementation


Training / Coaching

Research / Academia

most successful e-Learning of SAP

Reference: T-Online International AG

T-Online is a brand of Deutsche Telekom and Germany's largest internet provider.

Brockhaus defined the migration concept, supported the migration from SUN iPlanet to Bea WebLogic 8.1 and was training the employees and supporting the administration and 24/7 operation.

Results:• Increase of performance by factor 10• Increase of load balancing by factor 3• 24/7 operation, no failure

Cluster• 8 Mio. hits per day (incl. static content)• 24 Bea WebLogic 8.1 instancies / 4 Apache

WebServer

Applikations:• Ordermanagement• Billing systems

Migration:• IPlanet Bea WebLogic

Migration / administration of „Customer Self Care System“ of T-Online International AG.

„The experts of Brockhaus GmbH not only did a very good migration job, but also have supported us in the perfect operation of our system. We are

very satisfied with theirperformance.“

Gerd Rolvering, Senior Manager Application Services, T-ONLINE INTERNATIONAL AG.


Training / Coaching

Research / Academia


Reference: DBV Winterthur

Evaluation and Administration of “ePlatform” for all online applications

DBV is part of global AXA Group

• Employees: 4.600

• Customers: 3,5 million

• Revenue: 2.8 billion €

--- Data from DBV-winterthur


• Evaluation of strategic platform to support all online business of DBV

• Training and coaching of DBV employees

• 24/7 operation, no failure

• Technical env.: JBoss 4.0.4, Solaris 10, Oracle 10g, Gauss VIP


Training / Coaching

Research / Academia


Reference: SAP / BASF

Developing several parts of the project as subcontractor for SAP

Project description:

Mainly dealing with SSO solutions based on SAP's NetWeaver


• deputy teamlead (technologies)

• technologywise:

✔ EJB2.0 – as WebService endpoints with Netweaver Developer Studio

✔ Generating of Webservices with NDS✔ Generation of Proxies to interact with

SAP-Workflow✔ NWDI and Transport System

Consulting / Development

Training / Coaching

Research / Academia


Reference: OVB Vermögensberatung Köln

FOSS based prototype for new CRM-System

Project desc.:

OVB was about making a descision about their new CRM-System. One of the alternatives was a pure open-source based implementation.

Brockhaus together with University of Siegen evaluated FOSS technologies / products and implemented the prototype


• Evaluation of free open source technologies to make use of (JBoss, jBPM, MySQL/Postgres, eclipse, Hibernate)

• implementation of prototype, presentation of results to OVB's IT executive director

• Training OVB IT-personal in Java, Enterprise Java and JBoss-Admin


Training / Coaching

Research / Academia

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Reference: Process Design for T-Home

Designing and implementing service-oriented processes in sales


Decouple business logic from sales channels and provide automated processes on a unified platform (T-Home's SOA)


• Design of services• Implementation and maintenance of

services• Supporting the retirement of existing

applications


Training / Coaching

Research / Academia


Reference: Message-based infrastructure for GiS

Evaluation, design and implementation of a prototype for a message-based infrastructure

GiS Weinheim, leading provider of operational management systems (openBMS) for large industrial installations, mostly nuclear power plants


Evaluation of alternatives for the re-design of an open, standard-compliant infrastructure supporting communication and integration with external systems


• Evaluation of ESB and messaging-systems

• Implementation of prototype based on ActiveMQ


Training / Coaching

Research / Academia


MES System for Automotive Supplier

Architectural lead on ISA 95 compliant MES System realized with Java EE

The existing solution came to an end in terms of maintainability and technologies.The customer asked for a modern solution catering all needs.

• Training internal teams• Defining the a new architecture• Implementation lead• Staffing of development teams

Implemented for:• Honda / Ohio• Volkswagen / Wolfsburg• Ford / China, Thailand, Turkey and India


Training / Coaching

Research / Academia


MES System for Film-stretching industry

Architectural lead on ISA 95 compliant MES System realized with Java EE and Big Data

The existing solution was build by different vendors and not according to modern requirements. The new solution should be re-build based upon standards like ISA 95 and latest technologies.

• Training of internal teams• Defining the a new architecture• Implementation lead of distributed

teams in Germany and Romania• Staffing of development teams


Training / Coaching

Research / Academia


eConvey: Operating and supervising conveyors

Implementing a new, mobile solution for operating and supervising conveyors in the automotive sector (mass production)

The existing solution was operated by 250+ touch screens, the mobile solution was developed to replace several of these.

Based upon direct OPC interaction the solution allows:

• to operate the conveyors (< 5 ms latency), • to localize the operator (Bluetooth LE), • to vizualize the current state of the

conveyor(s) by means of a VISU• Retrieving additional information

by QR-Codes


Training / Coaching

Research / Academia


Software Architecture: Review

Architectural review of the HR application of one of the largest Cash-and-Carry markets within Europe

The head of software development asked Brockhaus to evaluate the implemented architecture and to provide suggestions in terms of enhancement.

Characteristics of the application:

• 90.000+ users• 100.000.000+ records per year• Java EE architecture running on

Open Source


Training / Coaching

Research / Academia


Software Architecture: Review

Architectural review of the application related to planning the production of the powertrain components of a car manufacturer in Germany

The existing solution was more than 16 years old, maintenance and improvement were almost impossible due to technical debts.

• Evaluating the existing architecture• Identification of problematic hot spots• Defining an optimization strategy• Developing the new reference architecture


Training / Coaching

Research / Academia


BigData: Storing & Visualizing time series data

Replacement of an existing, file-based data storage by modern NoSQL approaches.

The existing solution (automotive supplier) was not able to deal properly with the increasing amount of sensors and respective data. The replacing solution should be able to to cope with approx. 10.000 sensors and will form the foundation for a machine learning approach.

• Evaluating the NoSQL databases (MongoDB and Apache Cassandra)

• Definition of the datamodel, implementation of import mechanisms (JMS, WebServices and CSV files)

• Visualization of data

In the future:• Evaluation of weka Framework and Apache

Mahout in the filed of machine learning and pattern recognizion.


Training / Coaching

Research / Academia


Enough propaganda ... Get in touch!

Contact information:

Brockhaus Consulting GmbHGustav Stresemann Ring 1D - 65189 WiesbadenGermany

Fon: +49-611-97774-332Fax: +49-611-97774-432

WWW: www.brockhaus-gruppe.de Mail: [email protected]

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