Meet the SAPinsider Experts

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Experts

  • Joerg Boeke

    Joerg Boeke is an SAP BW / HANA solution architect and senior consultant working with BIAnalyst GmbH & Co.KG, with 24 years experience in SAP BW and 10 years experience in SAP HANA , having worked on it since SAP BW 1.2A and first HANA version until recent versions. He offers significant expertise in the SAP BW / HANA, analytical area, including design, data integration, data visualization, performance optimization, and the cleanup of existing SAP BW as well as HANA systems. He is the author of SAP BW 7.x Reporting – Visualize your data,SAP BI Analysis Office - a Practical Guide, SAP HANA SQL-Script
  • Shawn Brown
    Expert since 2023

    Shawn Brown is a technologists at SAP and an expert on the SAP Business Technology Platform – which simplifies SAP customer landscape and accelerates time to value. Shawn has served the needs of his customers in pre- and post-sales roles with the underlying goal of helping his customers differentiate themselves from their competition.
  • Satwik Das

    Satwik Das is an Associate Partner at TruQua, an IBM company. He has more than 17 years of experience leading and managing large-scale SAP analytics, financial planning, and finance transformation projects. He has extensive experience in SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW), SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC), and various reporting tools, and he has…
  • Shashidhar Garimella

    Shashidhar Garimella is an accomplished Principal Architect at SAP America Inc., known for his exceptional skills and expertise in the field of Enterprise Software Solutions. With a career spanning over a decade, Shashidhar has made significant contributions to the areas of SAP Analytics (BW, BW/4, DWC), Enterprise Information Management (EIM)- DI, SLT, SDI, Financial Planning(BPC,…
  • Ingo Hilgefort
    Expert since 2019

    Ingo is an experienced product manager working in the analytics & BI software industry for over 15 years now. He always has been focusing on cross-product solutions and focusing on the “big picture” scenarios by keeping the customer experience and requirements in mind. In addition to his experience in product management and engineering, Ingo has…
  • Eran Kriegshauser

    Eran is an SAP DevOps Architect for Basis Technologies in North America. He is committed to helping organizations adopt DevOps to maximize the value they get from their SAP systems. Eran is passionate about helping companies achieve a competitive edge by deploying SAP changes daily with CI/CD. He has more than 20 years of experience…
  • Akash Kumar

    Akash Kumar is an author, speaker, and techie for emerging and disruptive technology topics with a focus on Intelligent Enterprise. He is currently working as Solution Architect with HCL and supporting new products, services, and offerings on the Industry Cloud. He has supported multiple customers in digital transformation by creating business use cases and technology roadmaps, migrating from old to new technology such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform, and SAP Analytics, implementing new business model on artificial intelligence/machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain, and enabling business process simplification with Celonis and task automation with robotic process automation. He is the author of PlanViz: Improving SAP HANA Performance (SAP Press) and Building and Extending SAP HANA Live Views (SAP Press). He has a bachelor's degree in computer science and holds numerous certifications, including Scrum Master, Agile, IoT, Devops, SAP HANA, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Activate, and SAP S/4HANA.
  • Renjith Kumar Palaniswamy
    Expert since 2024

    Renjith Kumar Palaniswamy, a highly experienced SAP BW/4HANA architect with over 16 years of experience, he is also a distinguished author with a published book from SAP Press. He is currently serving as the BW/4HANA Services Architect at SAP Americas Inc within the SAP Cloud Success Services Center of Expertise , Renjith possesses extensive proficiency in SAP BW/4HANA and SAP DataSphere. His expertise covers various critical aspects, including data extraction from S/4HANA for BI analytical reporting, S/4HANA-based BW extraction, Native S/4HANA Data Modeling, Mixed BW/4HANA modeling , BW/4HANA Greenfield implementation and Migrations to BW/4HANA and SAP DataSphere. Renjith has excelled in his role as an SAP BW/4HANA architect and services consultant at SAP America, collaborating with renowned Fortune 100 companies across North America. His primary focus has been on BW/4HANA data modeling using mixed modeling techniques and Data Staging from S/4HANA. Renjith has played a crucial role in multiple SAP BW on HANA migration projects and complex SAP BW/4HANA conversions in North America, including overseeing the world's first and largest SAP BW migration powered by SAP HANA for a prominent retail company.Renjith has successfully led and contributed to numerous large-scale BW/4HANA implementation and conversion projects across various industry sectors, providing valuable insights and solutions for organizational Analytical Strategy positioning.
  • Shashank Paritala
    Expert since 2024

    Shashank Paritala - Practice Manager for Analytics and Data Monetization at Avvale, bringing extensive experience in the SAP Analytics Stack, including BW, Datasphere, and SAC, along with broad functional knowledge across various industries.
  • Aric Quinones
    Expert since 2022

    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,…