Brockhaus Group 2014

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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)

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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
Brockhaus Consulting GmbH
- Wiesbaden -

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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)
Brockhaus GmbH
- 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!
Brockhaus Pvt. Ltd.
- Pune -

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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

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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.

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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

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Academic cooperations

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(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

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(Inter)national cooperations in academia
✔ Universidad Castilla La Macha / Albacete
(Spain)
➢ Several courses in the field of Software Development
and Software Architecture

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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

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Partners and cooperations ...
… in academia
✔ University of Siegen
➢ Contract partners since 2006 (extended twice in 2008 and 2010) for
joint 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)

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Reference: SOA / BPM Roadshow (April 2007)
Joint roadshow between Brockhaus GmbH and University of Siegen
Speakers
• Business Process Management im
Auswärtigen Amt
Sascha Girrulat, IT-Strategie, Auswärtiges Amt
• Die Bedeutung der SOA-Governance
Andreas Fröhlich, Solution Architect, Software AG
• SAP XI – Legacy Integration
Emanuel 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 2.0
Prof. 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
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by Siegener Zeitung

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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
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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
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Reference: eLearning system based on ILIAS
Internal eLearning System (German / English) covering all trainings and workshops available
Training / Coaching
Research / Academia
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Selected customers
and projects

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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

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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
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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
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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 their
performance.“
Gerd Rolvering, Senior Manager Application Services,
T-ONLINE INTERNATIONAL AG.
Training / Coaching
Research / Academia
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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
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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:
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EJB2.0 – as WebService endpoints
with Netweaver Developer Studio
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Generating of Webservices with NDS
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Generation of Proxies to interact with
SAP-Workflow
✔
NWDI and Transport System
Consulting / Development
Training / Coaching
Research / Academia
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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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pic by Raimond Spekking / GNU-License for free Docu

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Enough propaganda ... Get in touch!
Contact information:
Brockhaus Consulting GmbH
Gustav Stresemann Ring 1
D - 65189 Wiesbaden
Germany
Fon: +49-611-97774-332
Fax: +49-611-97774-432
WWW: www.brockhaus-gruppe.de
Mail: office@brockhaus-gruppe.de

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