Personal, not anonymous.

What we stand for

What makes architecture succeed is not written in any handbook.

Career path

The role has changed, more than once.

Michele Mangieri's path led from technology to architecture and from there to facilitating decisions. Every stage required learning something new and letting go of the familiar.

1. Starting out

   Knowing the technology from the inside

   Hands-on from his student days: internship and diploma thesis focused on SAP integration, including the migration from SAP XI 2.0 to 3.0. Graduated in business informatics (Dipl.-Wirt.-Inf. (FH)) from Ulm University of Applied Sciences in 2005. Then on behalf of SAP AG: the link between support and development, feasibility and integration checks at large enterprises in five European countries.

2. 2007 · Going independent

   Building interfaces, passing on knowledge

   As a freelancer, developed interfaces and built integration landscapes for publishers, mail-order retail, sporting goods and medical technology, among others. As technical architect, responsible for introducing SAP PI with 400 interfaces, including the SAP PI 7.10 Ramp-Up. Also a trainer for SAP AG on the TBIT51 and TBIT480 courses and a coach for in-house teams.

3. 2011 · Change of role

   From developer to architect

   At an educational publisher, moved from developer to solution architect: around 200 interfaces in replacing the legacy systems with SAP ECC and CRM. Then took responsibility for integration architecture in international rollouts, such as an FI/CO implementation in six countries: defining the approach, coordinating development, planning tests and cutover. Alignment with many stakeholders became more important than his own code.

4. 2018 · The bigger picture

   From the interface to the application landscape

   In a global transformation programme with S/4HANA Retail and a rollout to nine countries, established architecture governance, as-is and target landscape plans with LeanIX, and decision papers for management. Requirements and stakeholder management were part of everyday work.

5. 2019 · Cloud

   Replacing the tried and tested

   Developed migration strategies from SAP PI/PO to SAP Cloud Integration, with selection criteria, pilot scenarios and an operations concept. Also concepts for API management, security and the Cloud Connector, and the connection of Salesforce and procurement platforms to S/4HANA. At the same time worked as Scrum Master and facilitator between business units and IT.

6. 2021 · maxClaint GmbH

   A freelance practice becomes a company

   Foundation of maxClaint GmbH in Waldkirch, Germany.

7. Decision readiness

   Assessing applications, preparing decisions

   As technical project lead and Scrum Master, assessed a grown application landscape in banking: software and interface map, assessment using the Gartner TIME model, focus groups with business, IT and organisation. The outcome: decision papers for the executive board and steering committees.

8. Today

   Solution architecture in a transformation programme

   Solution Architect in the S/4HANA transformation of a globally operating industrial group. Solution architectures for manufacturing, procurement, maintenance and analytics, safeguarded along an architecture gate model.

Alongside: lectureship 2021–2022 at Heilbronn University in the business informatics programme, teaching “Introduction to IT Management”. Our IT Landscape Workshop grew out of it.

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Architecture and project leadership

We do not only design. We also see initiatives through.

Staying current

We never stop learning.

What was state of the art a few years ago is legacy today. That is why continuous learning is part of our daily work.