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Tobias Witte
Last position:
CEO & Fouder at Wittbix
Peter Sachs-Witzel
Last position:
Project Manager for SAP GTS Trade Services, edition for SAP 4/HANA at ETENGO AG
- Creation of detailed concepts for all relevant GTS modules (compliance, pricing, customs clearance, Intrastat, preferences)
- Planning and conducting workshops, including scheduling and documentation
- Development and consulting of the organisational structure and its master data
- Setup and customisation of compliance functions: sanctions list review, embargo, legal control, US re-export
- Uploading and maintaining sanction and commodity lists
- Implementation and validation of integration tests
- Setup and customisation of the modules: pricing (including uploading of customs tariff numbers and STAWN data), customs clearance (including application for test operation with customs), Intrastat and preferences (including preference calculation and LLEs)
- Development and presentation of prototypes
- Derivation of insights for the final concept
Thomas Müller
Last position:
Requirements Engineer (SPC) - ONE.CRM VW Salesforce Solution at CARIAD SE / Diconium Strategy GmbH
- Rework demand, development and operational organizational set up for the Solution Train
- Rework requirement refinement process flow from strategic theme to user story
- Introduction of visualization tools (Canvas) of work dependencies over different requirement levels and Solution Train leadership coaching
Thorsten Huber
Last position:
Product Owner, AI Manager at crazyALEX.de GmbH
Digitizing real-world places with 3D/LiDAR scans to make spatial data usable for AI applications and to derive concrete use cases and prototypes from it.
- Digital capture of real-world places as a basis for faster planning and analysis
- Browser-based access to 3D data for easier use and coordination
- Turning spatial data into concrete use cases, prototypes, and AI training scenarios
- Planning basis for urban development and other digital future applications
Keywords: LiDAR, 3D scan, AI, use cases, AI training, prototyping, Python, web development, data models, architecture
Mladen Blagojevic
Last position:
Senior SAP BW/4HANA / BPC / SAC Consultant – Freelancer at Company in Berlin and Belgium in the utilities sector
- Implementation of data models in BW/4HANA, ABAP CDS Views, HANA Calculation Views, AMDP Scripts, OData Services, object-oriented ABAP in BW, SAC.
- Adjustments in BPC for BW/4HANA.
Jens Reichert
Last position:
Finance Transformation Director at Bauer Media Group
After several S/4 go-lives, structure, role clarity, and decision clarity were missing in Finance and IT; governance mechanisms, prioritization logic, and responsibilities were not defined well enough.
Unclear interfaces, high coordination effort, and inconsistent ways of working led to organizational instability and limited leadership and steering capability.
The existing operating model between Finance, Controlling, and IT was not working, which affected transparency, collaboration, and decision paths.
Designed the transformation and organization architecture for Finance and clarified roles, decision paths, and priorities.
Diagnosed and structured the Finance and IT organizations (DE/UK/PL), including collaboration, responsibilities, and interfaces.
Redesigned the Finance–IT operating model with a focus on governance, steering routines, and cross-functional collaboration.
Enabled leaders and teams, especially Global Process Owners, Key Users, and Finance Leads (systemic organizational development / leadership).
Steered the transformation portfolio, including clarity on risks, dependencies, and cross-functional decision processes.
Restored structural steering capability by clearly defining roles, decision paths, and priorities and anchoring them across the organization.
Strengthened governance and cross-functional collaboration in a systemic way - Finance, Controlling, and IT worked again in consistent, aligned structures; friction losses dropped measurably.
Harmonized working and communication logic, making coordination faster, more transparent, and less conflict-heavy.
Enabled the organization in a sustainable way, including the build-up of a strong Key User / Process Owner community and clearly defined steering routines.
Made the transformation structurally manageable - prioritized initiatives, clear risk and progress logic, and consistent decision formats increased execution speed.
Michael Donatus
Last position:
Project Manager SuccessFactors at Sysmex Europe SE
Deployment SAP HANA - SuccessFactors
- Implementation of sub-modules Recruiting + EC Benefits + TeamGoals
- Global rollout with adaptation to country-specific legal requirements incl. standardization
- International stakeholder management
- Onboarding of new group companies in Kenya and Greece regarding SAP SuccessFactors
Priyanka Sarang
Last position:
Business Consultant (Software Engineering) at Boehringer Ingelheim
- Developed cloud-native enterprise applications on SAP Business Technology Platform using Node.js, SAP UI5, and RESTful APIs, delivering solutions across training management, procurement, employee information, and logistics domains
- Served as the primary developer for the maintenance, enhancement, and production support of three enterprise applications, delivering new features, resolving production issues, and coordinating releases with business stakeholders
- Experienced in leveraging AI-assisted development tools such as Microsoft Copilot to accelerate feature development, generate code, prototype solutions, and support application migration and modernization
- Designed backend services, domain models, and SAP Fiori/UI5 interfaces, implementing business workflows, role-based access control, validations, scheduling, reporting, and data import/export capabilities
- Designed and integrated enterprise services with SAP SuccessFactors, SailPoint, ERP systems, and external Learning Management APIs, including automated synchronization for 11,000+ user data
- Designed and implemented AMQP-based event-driven services processing up to 500 RFID parcel scan events per day for a logistics application
- Managed deployments and application operations using CI/CD pipelines, SAP Solution Manager, SAP BTP Cockpit, Kibana, and cloud monitoring tools, performing root-cause analysis and resolving production incidents
- Managed application dependencies by resolving npm package version conflicts and remediating critical and high-severity security vulnerabilities, ensuring production compliance and application stability
- Collaborated with architects, business users, SAP governance teams, and distributed Agile teams throughout technical design, code reviews, sprint planning, documentation, and software delivery
Christian Frauer
Last position:
Department Head (Interim) at Municipal utility and transport company
- Definition and setup of the subject areas
- Building a governance model for the department with the areas of responsibility
- IT strategy, project management, process management, and quality and sustainability management
- Developing a communication strategy for the group
- Creating an IT strategy
- Designing templates, guidelines, and processes for standardized work
- Capturing strategic guardrails and grouping ongoing projects – deriving a roadmap for strategic planning
- Reviewing ongoing projects
- Creating staffing and capacity calculations
- Defining job profiles
Michael Rosens
Last position:
Project Manager at Payone GmbH (Worldline AG)
- Goal/Motivation: PAYONE urgently needs a 360° view of its customers. So far, PAYONE has no overall master data strategy. It is not possible to identify customers across all relevant systems.
The organization is to be enabled to identify customers across all relevant systems. Creating the foundation for master data management at PAYONE
- Challenge: Due to acquisitions, the system landscape is very heterogeneous. The company is very dynamic and burdened with many system harmonization and integration projects, so resource bottlenecks and changes in project priorities are again and again almost impossible to handle.
Due to BaFin findings, the project has a central task and role. The first focus is on migrating all customers from the master-data-leading backend systems with their AML/KYC data to Salesforce. This is intended to resolve one of the largest findings and establish the corresponding ODD/EDD processes.
In addition, customer data must be harmonized in Salesforce. Previous migrations led in some cases to duplicate customer records. In the end, only one customer should be maintained in Salesforce and, with the corresponding information from the backend systems, it should also be possible to recognize which products and in which processing systems the customer uses Payone services.
Project: ONE Customer
Budget: €1.5 million
Team: 10/30 employees (full-time/part-time); 4 vendors/providers
Integration: 8 (subsystems/interfaces)
Applications: Salesforce; SAP S4/HANA; custom developments
Tools: MS Office; Jira, Confluence, SharePoint
Methods: Hands-on; Agile (SAFe); Prince2
Gerhard Kolar
Last position:
Senior Project Manager and Construction Manager at HENSOLDT Optronics GmbH
- Building the data center in Oberkochen (defense area)
- Planning the fiber optic ring, simulation of Wi-Fi coverage
- Cable routing plan for WAN and LAN cables for office and production (infrastructure)
- Adaptation of the SAP system (R3) for the Oberkochen site (software)
- IT transformation of the SAP system to SAP HANA
- Planning network infrastructure and server technologies in the SAP environment
- Pré-sales support and setting up change management
- Independent coordination of utilities according to time, budget and quality
- Mapping the project in MS Project and SERVICENow
- Development and design of hardware and software
- Demand management and portfolio management
- Building a risk register and migration plan
- Preparation of payment-supporting documents in coordination with the responsible finance and commercial functions
- Budget: 5 Mio. - 34 FTE
Marcus Wolf
Last position:
CIO (ad interim) at Bartec Group
- Responsible for infrastructure, operations, network and VoIP, security, quality assurance, as well as asset management and business continuity
- Planning and implementation of all requirements related to NIS 2.0
- Responsible for application development
- Company-wide implementation of SAP S/4Hana and leading development of new business processes, incl. cut-over planning
- Digital transformation and cultural transformation toward a "doer mentality"
- Realignment of infrastructure (hybrid)
- Restructuring of the organization with partial outsourcing
- Management of four direct reports with a total of 25 internal and external employees
- Budget responsibility of up to €25 million
Ajay Kumar Deekonda
Last position:
Senior BI and Analytics Engineer at Novartis
- Led enterprise reporting modernization by migrating legacy SSRS reporting solutions to Power BI, supporting 500+ business users while ensuring full GDPR/DSGVO compliance.
- Designed and optimized Power BI and Microsoft Fabric semantic models using star schema, dimensional modeling, advanced DAX, and performance optimization techniques, reducing query latency by 25%.
- Delivered 20+ executive and operational dashboards featuring KPI scorecards, drill-through, bookmarks, and row-level security, improving reporting efficiency by 20%.
- Enabled self-service analytics through governed Power BI datasets, dataflows, and gateway architecture, increasing business-led reporting adoption by 35%.
- Configured an incremental refresh policy and query folding for a 50+ million row sales dataset, reducing daily report refresh times by 85%.
- Deployed automated ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, and Snowflake, reducing reporting delivery timelines by 40% through workflow automation.
- Spearheaded Microsoft Fabric analytics modernization initiatives including lakehouse architecture, OneLake integration, and centralized data platform development, reducing data latency from 2 hours to 20 minutes.
- Translated business requirements from 15+ stakeholders into scalable Power BI semantic models and dashboards, improving reporting consistency and reducing ad-hoc reporting requests by 25%.
- Applied Microsoft Copilot and generative AI tools to accelerate SQL development, DAX authoring, technical documentation, and testing activities, reducing development effort by approximately 15 hours per week.
Marco Toscano
Last position:
Scrum Master at Siemens Energy
- Responsible for introducing agile methods within the Interface & Integration Team (2 Scrum Teams)
- Planning and delivering trainings in agile methods
- Facilitating workshops and Scrum events
- Removing impediments
- Increasing sprint performance
Farid Alam
Last position:
SAP Data Migration & Data Management Consultant for SAP GEMINI at Montblanc
The consultant's responsibilities/actions are:
- Consulting on the migration of material master & PP Master data
- Prepare Article List template for Cutover Phase
- Implementation of data cleansing measures using individual and bulk changes
- SAP all mandatory fields data extraction regarding Business needed
- SAP migration, Cutover, Testing, BAT, UAT
- Align with the multiple Stakeholders regarding Data from Legacy and SAP System
- Deployed SAP MM best practice (guided configurations, active methodologies and road map for project initiation)
SAP ERP | SAP GEMINI | SAP Fields Coordination | Documentation | SAP IDoc | SAP Integration | SAP End-to-End Process | SAP MM (Material Management) | SAP Functional Consultant | SAP Gap analysis | SAP MDM (Master Data Management) | Data Migration & Management
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Statistics of experts using SAP HANA
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
3 years
Positions per freelancer
16
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Quality Assurance
Bachelor's degree or higher
86%
Master's degree or higher
48%
Doctorate
7%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
97%
Based on our profile pool as of 6 Sep 2026.
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Average rates of experts using SAP HANA
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Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 6 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
Core platform
SAP HANA is SAP’s in-memory data platform for fast analytics and transactional workloads. It is used for reporting layers, real-time planning, and data models inside SAP landscapes. Companies also bring in HANA specialists for clean data access, stable performance, and system changes that must not interrupt business users.
Typical work
- Model calculation views and analytical views
- Write SQLScript, procedures, and table functions
- Tune queries, indexes, and memory use
- Support S/4HANA or BW/4HANA projects
- Prepare cutovers, fixes, and transport work
These tasks often sit inside finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and reporting systems where SAP HANA must stay responsive under load.
Ecosystem
Strong professionals know the surrounding SAP stack, not just the database layer. They work with HANA Studio or SAP HANA Cockpit, HDI containers, XS Advanced, and integration points to ABAP, SAP BW, and analytics tools. They also know how data flows through calculation models, authorizations, and transport paths.
When to bring help
Companies often hire freelance SAP HANA experts during migrations, slow query issues, release changes, or model redesigns. They are also useful when internal teams need backup for a short project, a review before go-live, or support for legacy SAP HANA content that no one wants to touch lightly.
What good experts do
A strong SAP HANA professional reads execution plans, finds the real bottleneck, and keeps models simple. They document assumptions, protect data quality, and work cleanly with SAP Basis, security, and application teams. They also know when to adjust the model and when to change the consuming report instead.
Delivery and fit
SAP HANA work can be remote, but some phases benefit from on-site time, especially workshops, go-live support, or access-heavy remediation. Good experts communicate clearly with business and technical stakeholders, handle SAP vocabulary well, and know how to work in a controlled change process without slowing delivery.
Frequently asked questions
Curious about SAP HANA? Here are the answers that come up again and again.
SAP HANA is used for fast data access, analytics, planning, and transactional processing inside SAP environments. Companies use it for reporting layers, calculation models, and core business applications that need low-latency reads and writes. It is common in S/4HANA and BW/4HANA-based landscapes.
SAP HANA is built to keep data in memory and process it close to where the data lives, which helps with speed for both analytics and transactions. Compared with traditional disk-first databases, it changes how you design models, queries, and calculations. That is why HANA work is as much about modeling and tuning as about storage.
Bring in SAP HANA help when you have a migration, a slow model, a redesign, or a go-live that needs extra hands. Freelancers are also useful when internal specialists are tied up with day-to-day support. They can step in for targeted tasks without building a long hiring process.
A strong SAP HANA specialist usually knows SQL, SQLScript, performance analysis, and SAP data modeling. Useful adjacent skills include ABAP, SAP BW, S/4HANA, transport handling, and a solid grasp of authorization concepts. For many projects, clear communication with Basis and application teams matters just as much.
Not always. A focused SAP HANA task, such as fixing one calculation view or reviewing one procedure, may only need a specialist with the right depth in that area. Bigger migration or stabilization work needs broader SAP landscape experience and careful change control.
Yes, much of SAP HANA work can be done remotely because modeling, SQLScript, and performance analysis are usually system-based tasks. On-site time helps when workshops, stakeholder reviews, or sensitive cutover steps need close coordination. Many teams use a mixed setup.
Look for clear examples of modeling, tuning, and delivery in real SAP landscapes. A good SAP HANA professional explains why a query is slow, how a model should change, and what the trade-offs are. Strong communication and disciplined transport handling are good signs too.
SAP HANA is the official product name, while HANA is the common short form people use in conversation. SAP HANA Platform refers to the broader platform layer, and S/4HANA is an SAP application suite that runs on HANA rather than being the database itself. Searchers often use these terms together, so a good specialist should understand the distinctions.
The average hourly rate of freelancers who have used SAP HANA in their recent projects is 116 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 925 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers who have used SAP HANA in their recent projects, 86% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 48% hold at least a Master's degree, and 7% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers who have used SAP HANA in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers who have used SAP HANA in their recent projects are German (100%), English (96%), and French (24%).
The most common industries among freelancers who have used SAP HANA in their recent projects are Information Technology (79%), Professional Services (70%), and Manufacturing (63%).
The most common business areas among freelancers who have used SAP HANA in their recent projects are Information Technology (89%), Project Management (81%), and Operations (56%).
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