Germany’s Business IT after the Big Bang
1:00 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

This talk provides an overview of contemporary business-IT in Germany. What are the main topics and problems that the IT industry deals with today? How has Germany’s market developed since the big IT crisis at the beginning of this century? What is the mainstream in software development on the professional level and how does Germany differ from other countries in performing business-intelligence projects?

Dr. Bodo Cramer, who received his Ph.D. in physics from the Freie Universität Berlin, worked at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin at particle accelerators on nuclear fusion/fission. After changing from science to IT-business, he worked as a technical and strategy consultant, trainer, project and department manager, and analyst in such companies as Siemens Nixdorf, Powersoft, Sybase, and Meta Group. His tasks mainly covered the topics business intelligence and data warehouse, data and business process modeling, software re-/engineering, and enterprise application integration. Today, Dr. Cramer works as an independent consultant, technical author, writer, and musician.