Klaus Niemann has more than 20 years experience with the design of complex IT-architectures in the telecommunication and financial sector. He worked as system designer, software architect, consultant, project manager and enterprise architect in several positions and for a wide range of clients. Klaus holds a diploma in computer science from the Technical University of Berlin. In the 80s his main focus was on distributed systems, telecommunication and banking networks in Europe as well as in the far east. In the 90s he worked on the introduction of object orientation to large organizations and then focused on client/server architectures. He frequently gave professional training sessions, published several articles and a book on client/server architecture, and also became a frequent speaker to conferences.

He founded …act! consulting in 1998 with special emphasis on enterprise architecture management.

As enterprise architect and project manager he was involved in a variety of projects mainly in the financial sector. He developed the enterprise architecture framework t-eam (toolbox for enterprise architecture management) and is hosting the architecture management day, a series of events, where architecture managers from large German IT-organizations share their experience.