It is our pleasure to welcome our new employee Mr. Strobel as a part of our Research Group for Business Informatics and Software Engineering who joined us in December 2017. In 2013 Mr. Strobel successfully absolved his bachelor degree in Business Informatics with a focus on Software Engineering at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) in Stuttgart. Afterwards he completed his master studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He had a cooperation with different industrial partners for his master thesis which was about the potential of in-memory based business information systems that was demonstrated by the example of SAP HANA. Moreover, the focus of his research will be on Digital Transformation relating to Smart Connected Products.