Meet the SAPinsider Experts

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Experts

  • Matt Montes
    Expert since 2020

    Matt Montes is a Finance and Data driven professional currently working as an SAP Financials Senior Managing Consultant for TruQua, an IBM Company. His professional experience is comprised of Finance Transformation engagements which includes accounting, business process design, financial planning & analysis, data analytics, training, and change management. Matt Montes has 7.5 years of financial consulting experience utilizing SAP Central Finance, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ERP, SAP Fiori, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Group Reporting, and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. In addition to 5 full lifecycle implementations, product development, and 6 POC’s, Matt Montes also works as a trainer, content developer, and international speaker.

  • Brenton O’Callaghan

    Brenton is an IT executive that specializes in customer experience transformation in the software industry powered by data and automation. Today, he is the Chief Customer Officer for Avantra, the industry-leading SAP landscape management, and automation solution where his team is focused on solving real-world IT operations problems for the Avantra global customer base. At…

  • Paul Ovigele

    Paul Ovigele is the founder of the premium consulting platform ERPfixers. He has worked as an SAP financials consultant since 1997 in both North America and Europe, specializing in implementing financial accounting and controlling along with their integrated areas for companies in industries such as consumer goods, chemicals, logistics, pharmaceuticals, apparel, and entertainment. Paul has…

  • 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.

  • Udo Paltzer
    Expert since 2023

    Udo Paltzer is a Lead Product Manager for SAP Integration Suite focusing on the integration of APIs, events and business processes incl. A2A, B2B and B2G integrations. Udo has 20+ years of experience in the integration domain. As a Lead Product Manager Udo concentrates on the customer, partner and product success of SAP Integration Suite with the goal to help customers and partners in their digital transformation journey. Additionally, Udo engages with analysts, collect and prioritizes requirements to shape the roadmap of SAP Integration Suite, and is a regular speaker at events as well as customer and partner workshops.

  • Gaurav Pandey

    Over 19 years of experience in ERP(SAP) implementation and over 13 years of managing and leading SAP project teams across Life Sciences, Retail, Automobile, A&D, Hi-Tech, and manufacturing industries. Managed all aspects of SAP solution design through technical implementations, Architecture re-design and configurations. Technical design expertise includes product development, testing, implementation, roll-out and support. Successfully managed projects of up to 10 million USD annual portfolio and created opportunities within the existing engagements.

  • Bala Kalyan Podili
    Expert since 2023

    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.

  • 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,…

  • Chris Rae
    Expert since 2023

    Chris is a business-oriented technologist, SAP evangelist and a member of SAP’s coveted global mentor program, who founded DalRae Solutions in 2015. Having spent over 20 years in the SAP industry, he is passionate about driving business change through technology, and Chris is a business-oriented technologist, SAP evangelist and a member of SAP’s coveted global…

  • Ram Ranganathan
    Expert since 2023

    Ram R is a senior-level delivery manager with over 15 yrs. of combined experience in enterprise management and product consulting experience in driving operational and digital transformation projects for fortune 500 companies in B2B and B2C businesses across the globe. He has spent the recent 10 yrs in managing the delivery of the ERP cloud…