The authors of »SAP S/4HANA«

Devraj Bardhan

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Devraj Bardhan is an accomplished global leader for SAP Innovations at IBM. He has led several large transformation projects, driving business growth agenda through innovation and digital efficiencies. He is an established subject matter expert (SME) for SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba and SAP Business Technology Platform, growing IBM's digital transformation capability by designing and implementing global templates and intelligent workflows. He is part of the global SAP Center of Competence at IBM and works very closely with SAP incubating the next big idea. Devraj can be reached via Twitter @devbard or via www.linkedin.com/in/bardhan. 

Axel Baumgartl

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Axel Baumgartl is leading the transformation office for the Global Partner Organization of SAP. In his role, he focuses on accelerating the transformation of operations, processes, and applications to support the activation and enablement of the SAP ecosystem based on his 20 years of experience with SAP transformation projects. He is the author of several publications and books about SAP products and he developed a method for enterprise architecture blueprinting.

Mark Dudgeon

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Mark Dudgeon is the Global SAP CTO of IBM Global Business Services, SAP Service Line. He has more than 23 years of experience in architecture design and delivery for some of IBM’s largest SAP deployments. Mark’s role also includes ensuring that IBM has the right partnerships, capabilities, and offerings to support its customers in their digital transformation journey with SAP. You can reach Mark via Twitter @MarkPDudgeon.

Piotr Górecki

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Piotr Górecki is a program manager and enterprise architect working at IBM Global SAP Center of Competence. He has more than 20 years of experience in planning and delivering complex business transformation programs based on SAP solutions. Piotr has been working on global and local SAP projects in several industries, including consumer products, life sciences, retail, and telecommunications. In his current role, he helps customers define their road maps to SAP S/4HANA and identify new solutions and technologies that enable reaching their business goals. Piotr can be reached via www.linkedin.com/in/piotrgorecki/.

Asidhara Lahiri

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Asidhara Lahiri is an SAP Enterprise Architect in IBM India, working on complex SAP implementations for global clients in industries such as consumer products, oil & gas, airlines, and utility. She has more than 24 years of work experience, out of which 20 are in SAP. She advises client executives on digital road maps for their SAP landscape, and is a global subject matter expert (SME) in SAP HANA in IBM. She has also led the SAP HANA competency for IBM India, designing and reviewing client architecture, defining IBM services, and growing IBM's SAP HANA capability. Asidhara has filed two patents and is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. She is also a coauthor for the book SAP Cloud Platform: Cloud-Native Development (SAP PRESS). Asidhara can be reached via Twitter @AsidharaL and www.linkedin.com/in/asidharalahiri.

Bert Meijerink

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Bert Meijerink serves as the SAP S/4HANA Finance lead at IBM TruQua. With an impressive track record of more than 40 years in implementing financial systems globally, he brings unparalleled expertise to the table. He has spent more than 30 years designing and implementing SAP global templates, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to staying at the forefront of SAP technology. 

Bert is passionate about guiding his finance customers on their journey to become more analytical-focused by implementing finance data models. By leveraging his expertise, clients enhance their financial decision-making capabilities, driving business growth and success.

Andrew Worsley-Tonks

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Andrew Worsley-Tonks is the head of IBM Consulting's SAP Business for EMEA. He’s passionate about finding ways to use emerging and established technology more effectively, in combination with SAP, to help organizations achieve better business outcomes and end user adoption. Andrew was previously the SAP chief technology officer for IBM Consulting in DACH. Prior to that, he spent 10 years working in the SAP Center of Excellence with clients from around the globe in strategy, transformation, cloud, artificial intelligence, and mergers and acquisitions.

Richard Maund

Richard Maund has spent 25 years as an IT consultant specializing in SAP architecture, and has worked in a variety of senior architectural roles with clients on some of the biggest and most complex SAP implementations. He has been responsible for developing and implementing highly complex and innovative roadmaps and solutions to meet the needs of some of the largest clients, often supported by complex integration landscapes. Since 2011, Richard has been focused on developing proposals and delivering projects underpinned by SAP HANA, enabling clients on their journey to SAP S/4HANA and the cloud.

Madalina Dascalescu

Madalina Dascalescu is an associate partner at IBM. With more than a decade of experience, she contributed to numerous SAP transformation projects, aiding clients in optimizing their operations and orchestrating robust enterprise architecture to facilitate sustained growth. Madalina had held various consulting roles, supporting the implementation of materials management, transportation management, yard logistics, and extended warehouse management solutions from SAP. As part of NDT Global, an SAP customer, Madalina was responsible for the SAP S/4HANA solution architecture team both on the implementation project and within the global center of excellence. Additionally, Madalina played a pivotal role within SAP, notably as part of SAP 4.0 popup factory, where she led the setup and showcasing of integrated digital supply chain and Industry 4.0 solutions, aimed to demonstrate their efficacy to customers.
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    SAP S/4HANA
    An Introduction

    Devraj Bardhan, Axel Baumgartl, Nga-Sze Choi, Mark Dudgeon, Piotr Górecki, Asidhara Lahiri, Bert Meijerink, Andrew Worsley-Tonks

    648 pages, hardcover

    Interested in what SAP S/4HANA has to offer? Find out with this big-picture guide! Take a tour of SAP S/4HANA functionality for your key lines of business: finance, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, and more. Preview SAP S/4HANA’s architecture, and discover More about the book

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    SAP Data Intelligence
    The Comprehensive Guide

    Dharma Teja Atluri, Devraj Bardhan, Santanu Ghosh, Snehasish Ghosh, Arindom Saha

    783 pages, hardcover

    Manage your data landscape with SAP Data Intelligence! Begin by understanding its architecture and capabilities and then see how to set up and install SAP Data Intelligence with step-by-step instructions. Walk through SAP Data Intelligence applications and learn how to More about the book

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    Application Development with SAP Business Technology Platform

    Gairik Acharya, Govind Bajaj, Avijit Dhar, Anup Ghosh, Asidhara Lahiri

    574 pages, hardcover

    Develop cloud applications customized for your business needs! Master the basics of SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and its development environments; then get step-by-step instructions for developing and operating your own applications. Build your backend with Java, Node.js, or More about the book

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    • Build and deploy cloud applications on SAP BTP using Java, Node.js, and ABAP
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