My name is Carsten Ziegler and this is my web site. I'm a passionate developer, architect and project manager. My native development environment is ABAP on the brilliant NetWeaver platform. If SE80, SM50 and ST22 sound familiar to you, you can probably understand the pleasure of my work. When I'm not developing I enjoy spending time with my family.
Since March 14, 2005 I am the proud father of twins. They are healthy, and very beautiful.
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What's that? You say your life won't be complete until you know a little more about me? Well, you've come to the
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1993 - 2000 | Working in the family business |
1996 | 'Abitur' (high school diploma) at the Hölderlin Gymnasium in Heidelberg, Germany |
1996 - 1997 | Civilian Service as a caretaker in an old people's home: 'Haus Kurpfalz' in Wiesloch, Germany |
1997 - 2000 | 'Diplom' (Masters) in Business Administration at the Fachhochschule Ludwigshafen, Germany with focus on accounting and information technology |
1999 | Internship at Atrior AG in Heidelberg, Germany |
2000 | Internship at Landesbank Baden Württemberg in Stuttgart, Germany |
2000 | Software Development Engineer (later architect and project manager) at SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany |
2003 - 2008 | MBA course at University of Leicester,UK |
2000 - 2001 | SEM-SRM (Stakeholder Relationship Management) |
2001 | SEM-BCS (Business Consolidation) |
2002 - 2004 | MDF (Master Data Framework); central component of the Financial Basis which is the backbone of several applications such as SEM-BCS and banking solutions |
2005 | Several smaller developments in Financials and NetWeaver |
2005 - 2010 | BRFplus (Business Rules Framework plus) (project management and architecture) |
2006 - 2009 | Involvement in several architectural topics in the new Business Process Platform and Business ByDesign |
2007 | Acquisition of Yasu Technologies (I was doing technical analysis, and Yasu was in fact my recommendation) |
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Business Rules Framework plus (BRFplus) is a Business Rules Management System developed in ABAP. BRFplus allows to separate out fix parts of an application (code) and flexible parts (rules) that are subject to more frequent changes. Typical use cases for BRFplus are decision services, data validation and error correction, derivations and classifications, and calculations. The big advantage of the rules approach is that business users gain transparency. Business logic is not hidden in code but defined in rules. These rules are supposed to be changed and tested by business users without involvement of IT which decreases maintenance and testing costs/time.
More information about BRFplus including screenshots, tutorials, and demos are available in SDN.
The BRFplus Book, all you need to know about BRFplus..
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