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SAP is the world’s leading provider of business software solutions and the world’s third-largest independent software supplier overall. SAP solutions help enterprises of all sizes around the world to improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations. As an integral part of SAP’s R&D activities SAP Research is SAP’s worldwide organization responsible for identifying and evaluating emerging technologies and e-business solutions that may impact the future of SAP’s products. With a focus on applied research, SAP Research bridges the gap between open, collaborative research with external partners and exploitation into new or existing SAP product lines through SAP’s development groups.

SAP Research CEC Darmstadt has developed a strong focus on innovations for future workplaces.

It researchers do have long-term experiences in the areas of user interface technology, user research and user experience as well as software engineering and architectural aspects of future enterprise software solutions.

staff members

Thomas Ziegert received his diploma and doctoral degrees in Computer Science from the Dresden University of Technology in 1995 and 1999, respectively. From 1998 to 2001 he worked as a research assistant at the Department of Computer Science at the Dresden University of Technology.

From 2001 to 2002 he was project manager for the IT security department of T-Systems-Nova, Deutsche Telekom. In September 2002 he joined SAP Research. He headed several national and international research projects as well as internal technology transfers with a focus on mobile, wearable and ubiquitous applications.

Axel Spriestersbach received his degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Darmstadt. He is also associated to the University for his PhD while working for SAP Research within the Software Engineering and Architectures research program. He collaborates with SAP product groups and academic research partners in exploring and investigating innovative ideas for next-generation SAP mobile solutions. His current research focus is on efficient application development for non-desktop multimodal applications.

Christoph Pohl received his diploma and doctoral degrees in computer science from TU Dresden, Germany, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. He has a strong background in middleware, networking, software engineering and human computer interaction. Christoph has joined SAP Research in 2004 as a Senior Researcher. He is working in the areas of model driven software development and multimodal applications.