Is your company using SAP and are you looking for advice and support in one of these areas?
- You want to convert to S/4HANA securely and with near-zero-downtime?
- You want to optimize your SAP storage costs and improve the performance of your systems?
- You want to be able to both shut down legacy systems and quickly access historical data?
- You want to optimize your system landscape due to a reorganization, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), carve-outs or divestitures?
- You want to make more out of your data and use SAP data for innovative data science applications such as Machine Learning and AI?
If these and similar topics are on your agenda, you are in the right place.
Our Mission
Not only do we move data to the next level: We grow with the people and organizations we work with.
With an understanding of complex situations, appreciation and teamwork, we can deliver new and surprising solutions.
Our honest advice, the people and our can–do attitude ensure transparency, trust and security.
Just like a good friend, we respect your needs. And as friends we can talk openly and honestly, celebrating successes together.
Datavard – Your partner for all SAP data challenges and transformation projects
We offer you orientation, independent advice and first-class technical competence derived from over 20 years of experience in complex tasks in the field of SAP data management and data transformation.
Our services range from SAP migrations and system shutdowns to data transformations in the BW/ERP context and the development of modern data warehouse architectures with cloud-based data lakes as the basis for process automation and the development of innovative digital services.
With Datavard, you can rely on the leading experts for SAP data management and data innovation. In our 20-year company history, we have successfully completed more than 2,000 projects and our customers include top German and international companies.
The Datavard Story
1999
The predecessor of today’s Datavard AG is launched under the name SICOD. It is the time of company takeovers and the small but top-class team successfully carries out demanding data transformation projects for the integration and outsourcing of companies on behalf of SAP.
2010
The Datavard AG of today is founded. The company’s success also allows the team to grow rapidly and therefore an additional office is opened at the new location in Heidelberg.
2012
Datavard launches its first proprietary software, Outboard. The data management solution helps companies optimize their SAP data management, and it quickly finds enthusiastic customers with companies such as Bitburger and Randstad.
2015
Datavard expands internationally and opens its first foreign office in the USA. The US market is becoming increasingly important and Fortune 500 companies like Nike rely on Datavard for complex SAP transformation projects.
2016
Datavard is recognized by Gartner as a visionary in the area of SAP data management. Additionally, this year’s focus is primarily on the development of structures and processes. This also includes an expansion of management, which will give the company new impetus.
2017
Datavard opens its first Asian office in Singapore. Now Datavard can also serve customers from Asia with proximity and presence.
2018
Datavard Glue is the first flagship product to be launched. The solution enables companies to use their SAP data for data science applications. Furthermore, Marondo, a well-known investor, joins Datavard this year.
2019
Datavard successfully completes its first acquisition with the takeover of the American SAP service provider Formbit, thereby strengthening its market presence in the area of System Landscape Optimization (SLO).
Owners
Gregor Stoeckler
Chief Executive Officer and Co-owner
Goetz Lessmann
Chief Technology Officer and Co-owner
Dr. Branislav Cik
Chief Corporate Architect, member of the supervisory board and co-owner
Board
Gregor Stoeckler
Chief Executive Officer and Co-owner
Peter Kuhl
Chief Financial Officer
Supervisory Board
Chairman : Dr. Stefan Elsser
Vice chairperson: Dr. Branislav Cik, PhD
Dr. Markus Schwarz
Marko Maschek
Senior Leadership Team
Goetz Lessmann
Chief Technology Officer and Co-owner
Andreas Laux
Global VP Professional Services, Datavard
Guido Moggert
Global VP Finance & Administration
Petra Pirron
Global VP Marketing & Partner Business
Silke Richter
Global VP Human Resources
Thomas Fundneider
MD Switzerland and VP Sales EMEA
Ulf Spies
Managing Director APJ and VP Professional Services APJ
Tim White
Managing Director Americas, VP Professional Services Americas
Alex Williams
Managing Director USA and VP Sales & Partners North America
Martin Zlaty
VP Data Management & Transformation Technology
Some of our happy customers
We’re excited about this partnership as Datavard brings years of SAP and big data experience to customers on Google Cloud. Datavard’s success with large enterprise customers’ data and transformation journeys is a natural fit with Google Cloud customers looking to get more out of their SAP data while building a data warehouse and analytics strategy around BigQuery.
Datavard is a key partner for DXC and an integral part of our Intelligent Migration Framework. Our team likes the high level of engagement and the seamless working style that focuses on customer success. Our customers love the rapid results and quick time to value.
At Datavard, technical support is very direct and personal. Instead of going through different levels of support, we always had direct contact with the person responsible. We never had to wait more than 24 hours for an answer and our expectations have always been met. The cooperation was extremely satisfactory.
This is our first project with Datavard, and it will certainly not be the last. I have full confidence in the Datavard tools and team. They have now become an internal part of the EPI-USE finance and logistics practice and will plan to have many more projects with us.
I was most impressed by Datavard’s FitnessTest. The solution offers a detailed analysis of your system data, saving us time and simplifies the preparation of archiving and data cleansing processes. With the help of the FitnessTest, we were able to reduce our data volume by up to 20%.
We were able to archive 120 of the largest BW objects with Datavard OutBoard™ and achieved a compression rate of 91% of archived data. We were impressed by the results.
Thanks to Datavard OutBoard, we are perfectly prepared for SAP HANA. The system was reduced by 25% and the query response has improved significantly. This has accelerated the flow of information for business decisions.
With Fitness Test we were able to achieve considerable improvements with a minimal investment of time and, on top of that, build up knowhow for intelligent data management.
With help from Datavard, we were able to reduce a two-week downtime to 4 days; manual post processing was completely eliminated. On top of that, we saved storage space costs of €100,000.
Datavard has helped us to lay the foundation for the use of new technologies that support our business.
With the help of Datavard OutBoard we were able to reduce the system size by >30% in the initial wave of archiving.
With Datavard's support, we have gained 3-4 years of time for a memory expansion, and we have been spared the purchase of another HANA box for the time.
Datavard has helped us to set up a data management strategy that is tailored to our needs and to optimize BW performance by a factor of 15.
Datavard OutBoard is a highly innovative solution precisely addressing the customer's needs. Very recommendable.
Datavard FitnessTest fulfilled our expectations completely. We especially appreciated the detailed, actionable recommendations.
We chose Datavard because we were impressed with the ability of its Datavard Outboard and Datavard FitnessTest products to analyze SAP systems from many aspects.
We explored multiple options, but Datavard most closely matched our functional requirements and their solution was most cost effective.
Partners
Through partnerships we can multiply the benefits and expertise for our customers. That’s why we work with first-class partners such as Accenture, Appdynamics, Cloudera, DXC, Google, Microsoft, Infomotion, Pyramid, SAP and Suse.
Awards
Your ideas are our motivation
We help people move the world with data.
At Datavard we are always open for new challenges. Our motivator: making life easier and supporting the IT departments of today and tomorrow.
Many of our products and services are the result of ideas and co-innovations we have developed with our customers. In close cooperation we successfully drive SAP and Big Data projects forward. The result: Tailor-made solutions that help our customers move forward.
Our in-house innovation Labs and regular hackathons are just two examples of how great ideas become reality. We optimize existing solutions and develop new, innovative products and services that ultimately help us move forward together.
Cloudera Partner Impact Awards: Rising Star
Top100 Innovator 2017
Gartner Magic Quadrant 2015
Gartner Cool Vendor
