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About Our Advisory Board
Our technical editor and our eight SAP BW and SAP BusinessObjects experts make up the technical advisory board for BI Expert. They evaluate manuscripts, suggest articles, and assist in the writing and editing process. They are also among the dozens of expert authors who submit articles to BI Expert.
Technical Editor
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Frank Bulacher (frank.bulacher@enowa-consulting.com) is the BI practice manager and a partner for Enowa Consulting. He has worked with SAP NetWeaver BW for more than eight years in the US and Europe. Prior to that, Frank was a consultant in data warehousing and SAP FI/CO with PricewaterhouseCoopers and ICM. He is a graduate of the University of Augsburg, Germany, and the University of Wales in Swansea, UK, with majors in banking and informatics.
About Enowa Consulting: Enowa provides predictable SAP project results tied to efficient utilization of resources. Enowa is comprised of experts who specialize in SAP and IT implementations. Founded by Top Tier SAP practitioners who have extensive track records, this team brings a broad range of SAP experience from projects that are small to projects that are in excess of $40 million serving as project and QA managers and team experts.
For questions or a competitive bid with a minimalist approach to staffing on an implementation, upgrade, rollout, system merger/de-merger, QA roles, or system redesign, contact client services at info@enowa-consulting.com, 1.610.296.3641, or visit www.enowa-consulting.com. |
BI Experts
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Satish Chalasani (schalasani@exvise.com) is an independent information strategy and architecture consultant. He specializes in determining management information and performance management strategies, supplying architectural oversight, quality assurance, and project management services. He previously worked for BP, Deloitte Consulting, and Capgemini Ernst & Young. He has worked with SAP systems since 1997 and SAP NetWeaver BW since inception, and speaks at several SAP events.
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Ned Falk (ned.falk@sap.com) is a senior education consultant at SAP. In prior positions, he has implemented many ERP solutions, most recently SAP R/3. While at SAP, he initially focused on logistics. Now he focuses on BW and the CRM-BW interfaces and stays current with MM and PP. He has been working with the BW product from Release 1.2 to the current version. You may contact him via email, or meet him in person when he teaches BW from the Atlanta SAP office.
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Nathan Genez (nathan.genez@serioconsulting.com) is an SAP FI/CO and SAP NetWeaver BW certified consultant who has been working with SAP ERP since 1996 with an emphasis on the capital accounting modules: PS, IM, and FI-AA. As a former platinum consultant with SAP America, Inc., Nathan has also been working with SAP NetWeaver BW since release 1.2B and continued up to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0. Nathan is currently a managing partner at Serio Consulting in Houston, Texas.
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Ingo Hilgefort (Ingo.Hilgefort@sap.com) started in 1999 with Seagate Software/Crystal Decisions as a trainer and consultant. He moved to Walldorf for Crystal Decisions by the end of 2000 and worked with the SAP NetWeaver BI development team on integrating Crystal Reports with SAP BW. He then relocated to Vancouver in 2004 and worked as a product manager/program manager (engineering) on the integration of Business Objects products with SAP products. He now focuses on the topic of Embedded Analytics for the SAP Solutions. He is the author of the upcoming SAP PRESS book Integrating BusinessObjects XI 3.0 BI Tools with SAP NetWeaver. |
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Peter Jones (peter.jones@sap.com) is a platinum principal CO, EC, SAP NetWeaver BW, and SEM consultant for SAP America. He is also a subject material expert for SEM and SAP NetWeaver BW. He has worked in the area of SAP NetWeaver BW for nine years and SEM for six years. He has also worked with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation products and is a Ramp-Up coach for the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.0. He has worked with SAP ECC, CO, FI and EC. Recently, Peter also developed and maintained the curriculum for SAP ECC and SAP NetWeaver BW Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Peter won the Circle of Excellence in SAP award in 2000, 2002, and 2007. He has recently written books in the areas of SAP NetWeaver BW and FI/CO.
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Gary Nolan (gary.nolan@tli-usa.com) is an SAP NetWeaver BI-certified independent consultant and author of the SAP PRESS book Efficient SAP NetWeaver BI Implementation and Project Management. Gary specializes in gathering and evaluating requirements, configuring SAP NetWeaver BW, and providing project management. He also provides expertise in performance management and data architecture. Gary is a former platinum consultant with SAP America, Inc. With more than ten years of SAP experience, he has worked with SAP NetWeaver BW since version 1.2B. He has served as the lead consultant in many projects from the planning, system configuration, and testing phases, through go-live and post-implementation support.
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Iliya Ruvinsky (iliyar@advantech.co.il) is the head of the business intelligence division at Advantech Technologies, Israel. He is a SAP-certified BW consultant with more than ten years of experience working with data warehouse and business intelligence systems. He has an MBA in information and technological analysis at Tel Aviv University and is an expert in data warehouse, BI, and OLAP project management and implementation using SAP NetWeaver BW, Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects and Microsoft Analysis Server technologies. For more than five years, Iliya and his team, which consists of more than 25 BW and BI consultants, have been implementing and teaching BW as well as providing BW and other BI solutions and consultancy for some of the largest companies in Israel and abroad.
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Penny Silvia (psilvia@myitgroup.com) is the SAP BW Leader for Knightsbridge Solutions. Penny has more than 10 years of experience in the SAP space with the past seven plus years dedicated to SAP Business Intelligence solutions. She has implemented and designed crucial client/server transaction processing systems and enterprise decision support systems, as well as instructed both colleagues and clients on both environments. She is a frequent speaker at local, regional, and national events on this topic and participates on the advisory panel for various SAP technical publications.
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