Kumar Srinivasan is a senior business intelligence/SAP business planning and consolidation consultant for Zebra Consulting, Inc., in Houston, Texas. He holds a master’s degree in finance from Loyola College in Chennai, India. He is also a certified cost accountant. Kumar has almost two decades of experience in information technology and has been working with SAP products since 1999. He is certified by SAP AG for the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) products. Kumar has expertise providing solutions in the areas of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW), SAP Business Planning and Simulation (BPS), SAP BI Integrated Planning (BI-IP), and SAP BPC. He provides diverse solutions to clients in areas that cover both back-end configuration and development of front-end user interfaces. His articles on topics related to SAP NetWeaver BW and BPC have been published in “BWExpert.” Before working with Zebra Consulting, Inc., Kumar was employed with The World Bank as an information officer. During this time, he worked with relational database management systems, including Ingress, Informix, and Oracle. He also has extensive experience in the development of applications using messaging tools such as Lotus Notes. Kumar lives with his family in Cary, North Carolina. He can be reached at kshrini77@yahoo.com.

Sridhar Srinivasan is a solution architect for Zebra Consulting, Inc., in Houston, Texas who has over two decades of experience in information technology. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the College of Engineering in Guindy, Chennai, India. He graduated from the Master of Business Administration program at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business with a specialization in finance. Sri has been working with SAP products since 1995. He is certified by SAP AG for the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) products. He has been directly involved with implementations of solutions in these areas for clients in the United States and has functioned as a lead consultant in managing the entire lifecycle of SAP BPC project implementations, from the project preparation phase through post-implementation support. His expertise is in the functional, technical, and project management areas of the implementation. Sri lives with his family in Houston, Texas. He can be reached at sri.srinivasan@zebraconsultinginc.com.