A Practical Guide to SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse 7.0
Bharat Patel is a Post Graduate in Computer Applications and has extensive experience managing data warehouse technology. He is SAP BW certified and an ABAP consultant. He has presented papers at Business Intelligence India Group (BIIG) conferences and currently manages a large BW system for a fortune 500 company in India.Amol Palekar has been engaged in BI consulting for eight years and has worked on a variety of SAP NetWeaver BW implementations for customers in manufacturing, automotive, CPG, and telecom domains across geographies. His recent work focuses on expanding the BI footprint within an enterprise to help the business achieve maximum value from analytics and planning capabilities offered by information technology. Amol has made significant contribution in competency building for the organizations he has worked for or served. He has trained many IT professionals on SAP NetWeaver BW and regularly publishes articles and blogs on the subject. He is currently a lead consultant for business analytics in a major IT services company. You can reach Amol at amolpp@yahoo.com.Shreekant Shiralkar’s career, spanning more than 22 years, reflects his ability to manage transformation and innovation for growth. Currently he is a senior executive in a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company — overseeing its growth and innovation across technologies in India. Previously, he held various leadership roles in Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. in their Energy, Resources, & Utilities Industry Solution unit (ERU-ISU) and SAP Practice, where he grew its business, acquiring new clients in new geographies and adding new service offerings. Earlier, he made significant contributions in varying capacities such as the launch of the “Shell Gas” business in India, leading major transformation projects, and development of a supply chain strategy generating high-value cost optimization for a Fortune 500 oil company. Shreekant has published many technical articles on SAP APO, SAP NetWeaver BW, and RFID, including a book on SAP NetWeaver BW. He has presented papers at many international conferences. You can contact him at S_Shiralkar@yahoo.com.