Rudi de Louw is the head of the SAP Co-Innovation Lab at SAP in South Africa where he supports SAP partners in building or improving their business ideas and systems with SAP platforms like SAP HANA, SAP Cloud Platform, and SAP Leonardo. In this role, he also helps SAP partners extend the integration of their current business products with emerging SAP technologies. Rudi has been working with SAP HANA since 2010, and has been involved from the outset in preparing the SAP HANA certification exams. He has provided software and technology solutions to businesses for more than 25 years, and has a passion for sharing knowledge, mentoring, understanding new technologies, and finding innovative ways to leverage these skills to help individuals in their development.