Meet the SAPinsider Experts

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Experts

  • Suraj Gauli
    Expert since 2023

    Suraj Gauli is a Senior Manager in the PwC S4 HANA Cloud Platform and Intigration team. He has 15+ years of experience in advisory firm, retails, consumer products, transportation, automobile, semiconductor and healthcare IT services consulting with exposure to business project transformation management. Suraj has excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills with keen attention to…

  • 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…

  • Ingo Hilgefort

    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 been involved in architecting , deploying, and delivering Enterprise BI wide solutions by combining SAP BusinessObjects BI and SAP BI products with SAP landscapes (like SAP ERP, SAP BW, SAP HANA) for a number of worldwide customers. He has also been recognized by the SAP communities as an SAP Mentor for SAP BI and SAP landscape integration-related topics for several years now. In addition Ingo is a very active member in the overall SAP community focusing on the SAP BI portfolio and helping customers and partners successfully deploy this as part of their overall SAP landscape. He is also the author of several additional SAP PRESS and Kindle books: Integrating SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.x with SAP NetWeaver Reporting and Analytics with SAP Business-Objects Inside SAP Business-Objects Explorer Inside SAP Business-Objects Advanced Analysis Mastering SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio with SAP NetWeaver BW Mastering SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP with SAP NetWeaver BW Best Practices for integration SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x with SAP NetWeaver BW Mastering SAP Analytics Cloud

  • Damien Johnson

    Damien Johnson is currently serving as the Global Chief Architect for the RISE, Ecosystem organization, to ensure our customers benefit from a complementary architecture patterns and capabilities from SAP partners, for their cloud journey. His extensive experience as an Enterprise Architect helping SAP’s large strategic customers modernize has helped him design and co-author strategic cloud…

  • 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.

  • David Maloney

    Dave Maloney is the North American VP for BTP Everywhere and is focused on helping SAP customers gain as much out of their SAP investment through consistent leverage of the SAP Business Technology Platform. Accelerating Cloud adoption & renewals through BTP is Dave’s measure of success – including SAP Store, Solution Extension & Solution Integration…

  • 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.

  • Frederik Platz
    Expert since 2023

    Frederik Platz is an IT platform owner and administrator of SAP Analytics Cloud at Vestas, a wind turbine manufacturing company with more than 29,000 employees globally. Besides SAP Analytics Cloud, he is also administrator of Power BI, and has hereof insights into pros and cons of both of these popular technologies.

  • 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,…