Thorsten Lüdtke

Thorsten Lüdtke is a seasoned SAP BI architect and the founder of BIPortal

GmbH.

With expertise in SAP BW/4HANA and SAP HANA data warehouse architectures, he

began his analytics career in 1997 at MicroStrategy and co-developed the

pioneering SAP RapidMarts solution in 1999 at Acta Technology, Silicon Valley.

From 2002 to 2005, he worked extensively as an SAP BI consultant and trainer

across Germany and the UK. In 2006, he co-founded a joint venture with Bill

Inmon, leading to the establishment of BIPortal GmbH. Outside work, Thorsten is

passionate about classic AI literature, particularly the symbolic computation

concepts from the 70s and 80s, integrating these ideas with modern machine

learning techniques. He studied computer science at SUNY and information

systems

at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. Thorsten continues to

explore the application of machine learning in business analytics with

technologies like SAP BW/4HANA.