Advisors
Only the world's top experts write for the SAPexperts, and our board of technical advisors ensures their guidance is proven to help you solve technical challenges, improve day-to-day efficiencies, and complete major SAP projects with ease — guaranteed. They help deliver expertise to you that's free of sales pitches and hidden agendas. Take a moment to meet these individuals below — they play an important role in the expertise you get every week.
Frank Bulacher (f.bulacher@gmail.com) is a director and BI team lead at Deloitte. He has been working in BI for more than 10 years in the US and Europe. Prior to that, Frank was a consultant in data warehousing and SAP FI/CO. His career has taken him to top-tier and boutique companies. Frank is a graduate of the University of Augsburg, Germany and the University of Wales in Swansea, UK with majors in banking and computer science. He is the technical editor for BW Expert.
Ned Falk is a senior education consultant at SAP. In prior positions, he implemented many ERP solutions, including SAP R/3. While at SAP, he initially focused on logistics. Now he focuses on SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP CRM, and the integration of SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects tools. You can meet him in person when he teaches SAP NetWeaver BW or SAP CRM classes from the Atlanta SAP office or in a virtual training class over the Web.
Nathan Genez is an SAP FI/CO- and SAP NetWeaver BW-certified consultant who has worked with SAP ERP since 1996, with an emphasis on the capital accounting modules: PS, IM, and FI-AA. A former platinum consultant with SAP America, Inc., he has worked with SAP NetWeaver BW since release 1.2B. He is currently a managing partner at Serio Consulting in Houston, Texas.
Anupam Gupta is a practice manager at The Principal Consulting (TPC), managing its enterprise performance management (EPM) practice. He has more than 10 years of development and global consulting experience with SAP solutions in the areas of financial planning, reporting, and consolidation. He is responsible for the development of EPM competencies, knowledge management assets, and TPC-developed solutions spanning a range of SAP products such as SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP BusinessObjects Business Planning and Consolidation, and SAP Strategic Enterprise Management.
Ingo Hilgefort started in 1999 with Seagate Software/Crystal Decisions as a trainer and consultant. He moved to Walldorf for Crystal Decisions at the end of 2000 and worked with the SAP NetWeaver BW development team integrating Crystal Reports with SAP NetWeaver BW. He then relocated to Vancouver in 2004 and worked as a product manager/program manager (in engineering) on the integration of Business Objects products with SAP products. He currently works on BI end-to-end solution architecture, with a focus on the SAP BusinessObjects BI portfolio, and is also part of a team looking at the creation of Rapid Deployment solutions. He is the author of the SAP PRESS books Integrating BusinessObjects XI 3.0 BI Tools with SAP NetWeaver, Reporting and Analytics with SAP BusinessObjects, Inside SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, and Inside SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis.
Peter Jones is a business intelligence solution architect in the areas of CO, EC, SAP NetWeaver, BI, BusinessObjects, Planning and Consolidation, and SEM for MI6 Solutions. He is certified in all areas listed and a subject material expert for SEM, CO, BI, and Planning and Consolidation. He has worked in these areas for SAP and MI6 Solutions during the last 14 years. He is currently involved in projects incorporating the BW 7.3/Planning and Consolidation 10.0 and EPM Excel Add-In V10. He has consulted in all areas above for the last seven years, was an SAP instructor for seven years, and has written several books about SAP NetWeaver BW and FI/CO.
Gary Nolan is an SAP NetWeaver BW-certified consultant and author of the SAP PRESS books Efficient SAP NetWeaver BW Implementation and Upgrade Guide and Efficient SAP NetWeaver BI Implementation and Project Management. Gary specializes in gathering and evaluating requirements, configuring SAP NetWeaver BW, and providing project management, performance management, and data architecture and data modeling expertise. A former platinum consultant with SAP America, Inc, Gary has more than 15 years of SAP experience, working with SAP NetWeaver BW since version 1.2B.
Iliya Ruvinsky is a managing partner at Skywind Consulting Ltd., Israel. He is an SAP-certified BW consultant and instructor with more than 12 years of experience working with SAP Business Warehouse and SAP Business Objects. He is an implementation and project management expert, serving for more than eight years as a trusted advisor to a wide range of Israeli enterprises, including in the insurance, energy, sales, and logistics industries. He is a graduate of the University of Tel Aviv, Israel, holding an MBA in information systems analysis.
Penny Silvia is a North America leader within IBM for SAP Business Analytics & Technology (BAT) solutions, helping clients create the vision for success with SAP BAT tools and then creating the structure that will bring that vision to life. She is viewed as a creative solutions provider and problem solver for business intelligence and related issues. By combining her technical abilities and business acumen, she is able to successfully converse with C-level executives, technical developers, and business users to help each group understand the challenges of the other and work together to bridge those gaps to build solutions that all sides can agree upon and view as a success.
