<aside> <img src="notion://custom_emoji/7f3a86c4-0e4f-8193-9274-00038d571f22/294a86c4-0e4f-8053-a481-007af138f2db" alt="notion://custom_emoji/7f3a86c4-0e4f-8193-9274-00038d571f22/294a86c4-0e4f-8053-a481-007af138f2db" width="40px" /> This page explains the author behind publications like Death by Spreadsheet for readers, consultants, and project managers navigating the same corporate chaos. In short: it’s a real-world story told by someone who’s been inside SAP data migrations long enough to automate, humanise, and survive them. It matters because proof beats theatre — and this book shows what happens when structure replaces spin and clarity replaces comfort.

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I’ve spent over two decades inside SAP projects, watching data migrations collapse, recover, and sometimes redeem themselves. My career started long before S/4HANA existed, when LSMW was still considered cutting-edge. Back then, I built custom ABAP checks inside LSMW to validate data before loading. Not standard, not glamorous, but it worked. Zero-fault migrations became my favourite form of rebellion.

Years later, I built a full ETL solution inside SAP for customer and vendor data. Not for fun, but to solve the classic “duplicate master” plague. It matched addresses automatically and even rewarded teams for clean data. That was the first time I saw governance turn into motivation instead of punishment.

The next version came during a different kind of storm: product master data in S/4HANA. This time, I combined ETL logic with BRF+ rules so the system itself could validate, transform, and cleanse before loading. That solution became the skeleton of the story you just read.

Death by Spreadsheet isn’t fiction dressed as business. It’s business turned into fiction, so the lessons survive the meeting. Every character, failure, and one-week miracle has a trace of reality. I just changed the names to protect the guilty.

Today, I still design systems that try to keep humans and data from killing each other. I founded No Tie Generation to prove that clarity beats theatre, rebellion works better with rules, and that governance is just storytelling with evidence.

Author: Isard Haasakker Organisation: No Tie Generation Limited Framework: COMINDING + FIT + SOAP Narrative Source: https://sapsoap.notion.site Canonical Link: https://sapsoap.notion.site/About-the-Author-ISARD-HAASAKKER-2a3a86c40e4f8002b85beb79dcf4e1cb Updated: 06-Nov-2025 License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Tags: #SAPSOAP #NoTieGeneration #DataGovernance #Storytelling #ClarityBeatsTheatre