Meet the Authors

Anupam has about Twenty Years of Development and Global Consulting experience with Enterprise Software Solutions. He specializes in the domain of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Analytics and Big Data. He has significant experience advising clients on IT strategy and Technology Roadmap.

Anupam has helped customers with their Enterprise Mobile and Cloud strategies, particularly with regards to BI and CRM.

Anurag Barua is a highly experienced, successful, versatile and results-driven technology leader with over 26 years of business & digital transformation experience.

Aric is a Managing Director at Protiviti who leads the SAP Practice and Technology Consulting Practice in the East. For over 20 years, Aric has been helping clients manage digital transformations with the implementation and maintenance of SAP and the surrounding ecosystem. He is one of Protiviti’s firm-wide experts in S/4, Central Finance, Finance Transformation, eGRC, Security, and IT Regulatory Compliance.

Arne Schmidthals is the global head of the SAP S/4HANA Center of Excellence in the SAP Customer Evolution organization. The team’s core objective is to help the SAP ERP customers define and execute their business and IT transformation towards RISE with SAP. 

Arne joined SAP in 1993 as an application consultant and since then served in a variety of positions in consulting, business development, solution and product management, both in Germany and the US. 

He holds a degree in Computer Sciences and Business Administration from Kaiserslautern University, Germany. 

Audren Butery is a Consultant on ELSA, TJC Group’s latest cloud application for system decommissioning. He has helped customers in Europe and the USA to safely retire their legacy systems. Audren is responsible for extracting data from legacy systems, auditing the extracted data, coordinating the implementation of ELSA in the customer’s infrastructure and train business users to ensure they feel at ease with their new application. He operates at both project management and operational levels and specializes in dealing with stakeholders to guarantee “business as usual” once the legacy system has been safely retired and ELSA has been deployed.

Dr. Autumn Krauss leads the Market Research & Customer Engagement team, which is a cross-disciplinary team of experts responsible for providing an “outside-in” perspective by analyzing workforce trends, customer needs, and HCM market dynamics to generate evidence-based insights, informing SAP SuccessFactors’ product strategy and offering market thought leadership. The team’s original research agenda, led by Research Scientists with PhDs in Organizational Psychology, includes topics across the spectrum of HR strategy, with recent programs focused on employee experience, people management, AI, and the role of the CHRO in the C-suite.

Autumn holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology with a specialization in Occupational Health Psychology from Colorado State University.

Ava is the Head of Enterprise Applications and a strategic IT business partner at Device Technologies, with over 20 years of experience in delivering complex system integration solutions and enterprise applications to a diverse range of sectors including Medical Device, Oil & Gas, Mining, Agriculture, Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications, FMCG, Recycling, and Airlines industry.

As a member of the IT Leadership team, Ava is responsible for communicating emerging technologies to the Business while ensuring IT and Business alignment and was recently a focal point for the architecture, design, integration, testing and delivery of the SAP S/4HANA upgrade project.

An SAP BTP Certified professional, having over 17 yrs of experience on automating the business processes by integrating the 3rd-party applications with SAP. Also proficient on BTP-IS, API Management, PO/PI & Process Automation.

Experienced technical leader with a demonstrated history of leadership, delivery, and stewardship across multiple industries. Strong focus on data driven activities, including governance, data life cycle management, and rapid monetization of enterprise data assets. I am passionate about helping organizations realize the value of their data assets.

Bernd Baier is an SAP Business Development Manager and spearheads CNT’s S/4HANA transformation initiatives in North America. Bernd draws a wealth of experience from various customer-facing roles from infrastructure, SAP Basis, and, most recently, SAP business process consulting.

My first SAP implementation experience was in the early 1990s. It enabled transformative impact of service, cost, and people engagement outcomes.

Working at the Enterprise level I have led in growth circumstances and Business Turnaround and Recovery.

Through my career I learned that many factors that some considered out of scope are actually the drivers of effective business transformation outcomes.

I work with the Bright Sparks, Bold Executives, and Boards working in transformation.

I serve as a Speaker, Author, Mentor, Facilitator building Business Transformation leadership capacity.

Bhakya Dhanathiagu is a Research Analyst/Editor at SAPinsider. Skilled in marketing, business communication, and data analytics, her interest lies in drawing insights and effectively conveying them to a business audience through writing. She holds an MBA from VIT University and an MS in Business Analytics from Simon Business School at the University of Rochester and has industry experience in IT services, hospitality and education.