Abani Pattanayak has more than 15 years of experience in data warehousing, and has been working with SAP in-memory technology since 2007. As a principal architect at SAP and an SAP HANA Distinguished Engineer, he has helped implement and performance-tune SAP HANA for multiple customers. He is a frequent contributor to SCN and a regular speaker at events like SAP TechEd.

Williams Ruter started working with SAP in 2008 as a Basis consultant and has also served as a solution architect. He joined SAP in 2014 as an SAP HANA senior technology consultant. He has been the technical lead in several SAP HANA cloud deployments and migrations from the on-premise SAP HANA solution to the cloud solution.