Meet the SAPinsider Experts

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Experts

  • 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

  • Diego Lombardini
    Expert since 2023

    Diego is an experienced Enterprise Solutions Architect with 20+ years’ experience across SAP technologies. He has worked both as partner as well as customer, giving him a complete perspective on what it takes to sell, implement and run systems and organisations. He is passionate about technology and innovation, focusing on customer outcomes and delivering business value.

  • 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…

  • Chris Ortega
    Expert since 2022

    Hello, I’m Chris E. Ortega, the CEO of Fresh FP&A and we provide Fractional CFO and Advisory Services for businesses that allows them to transform and scale their finance organization. We have a proven track record in scaling finance organizations for Seed to Enterprise domestic and international businesses. Wide ranging leadership in public accounting, corporate…

  • 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.

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    Tammy Powlas

    Tammy is an Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG) volunteer and an SAP Mentor, Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), with SAP certifications in BW, FI, CO, SEM. Top contributor to SAP Community from 2011 to 2016. Served on the SAP Mentors advisory board. SAP Community Moderator. ASUG Volunteer Award Winner…

  • 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,…

  • Biswaranjan Senapati
    Expert since 2023

    Biswan Senapati is Platinum-level ERP-SAP Consultant having 20 + Years of Industry Experience in Domain Consulting, Business Consulting and Solution Architect for large-scale ERP systems Design, Development, Implementations, Roll out, Support and business process re-engineering capacity in Supply Chain, Chemicals, Hi-Tech, CPG, Pharmaceuticals, Wholesale, Fashion Retailer, Health-Care, and Manufacturing Domains. Biswan has worked SAP Group…

  • Laz Uriza

    Laz is the Global Sales and Strategy Lead for SAP on Azure; he works with the Global Azure Sales Team focusing on RISE on Azure and SAP on Azure initiatives. He also ensures Partners (SI’s, MSP’s and ISV’s) are engaged to provide services on the Azure Cloud Platform.   Before joining Microsoft, Laz has over…