Mika Karvonen

Hey, I’m Mika. I started developing my SAP skills working with SAP Retail solutions. Some years later I jumped into SAP Consultancy Business. Typical story how to become SAP consultant - no big deal.

After some years and SAP implementation projects I was frustrated the way how implementations were build. I decided to help my team and me. There had to be a better way to develop integrations and provide better results for customers. I was insanely frustrated about the delays and ambiguities occurred in projects.

Did you know that even 90 percent of calendar time in integration project can typically be lost because of missing information? Have you measured the time lost in your project? Where all the time is spent? I bet most of the time lost is about waiting. Someone wait interface specifications, communication details like addresses, certificates, account details, approval to continue and so on.

Technical skills usually are not the reason why projects were delayed. Those can learn pretty quickly. It is the communication and method how you define and build integrations and what you need to think ahead like how you monitor integrations after go-live or how you manage changes without creating a mess. I decided to find a better, more efficient way to build integrations. "If it isn't broken, don't fix it" was a comment I got many times. So sad.

After all this I got an opportunity to build some SAP-integrations. The method I used was nothing amazing but it helped - a lot! Needless to say but from that day we started to use this method. Today, I use this method to help my customers to build integrations faster (calendar time) with less effort. Method has improved over time.

Now, over 10 years of SAP knowledge I like to think I have gathered quite good understanding about how to build integrations. To understand all the new technical features (or even part of those) is a never-ending learning process where experience will help a bit. More important is about the way how you use tools. With new tools there are no best practices available which is a challenge. You need to use your experience and skills to build ones. On my journey with integrations, I have implemented quite decent amount of integrations, guidelines, SAP-trainings and Integration Architecture Analysis.

I'm happy to use my experience and knowledge helping colleagues and businesses building integrations even better.

Reach out if you want to talk about more.