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SAP HANA Expert Webinar Series

If you’re not sure how to make the most of your SAP HANA solutions, join one or all of these informative webinars, led by Protiviti subject matter experts.

From how to determine What’s Your BW Strategy: BW on HANA, BW/4HANA or HANA Enterprise? to Mastering the HANA Security Model, you’ll have the opportunity to learn more about the SAP HANA topics that are driving today’s data management industry. Our series will also touch on What to Consider when Moving to HANA 2.0, Best Practices for Optimizing your HANA Views and SAP HANA Deployment Options: On-Premise, Cloud or Hybrid. 

Join us on Thursdays beginning September 7 at 2:00 pm eastern for a deep dive into Everything HANA.

Register for one or all five!


What’s Your BW Strategy: BW on HANA, BW/4HANA or HANA Enterprise
Speaker: Sri Velicheti, Director – Business Intelligence and Vinay, Suneja, Senior Consultant – Business Intelligence
Thursday, September 7 @ 11:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Central / 2:00 pm Eastern

If you are debating whether to migrate to SAP BW on HANA, implement SAP HANA Enterprise, SAP BW/4HANA or provide a combination of these moving forward, you will want to take advantage of this webinar. You’ll gain a pragmatic approach to your SAP HANA journey, including practical insights for making the right choice and understanding how the choice you make influences your SAP S/4HANA journey.

Key Learning Points

  • Learn the value proposition and compare pros and cons of SAP BW/4HANA vs. SAP HANA Enterprise based on your specific system landscape
  • Discover a comprehensive three-step process focusing on business applications, usage statistics, and technical infrastructure that will influence your SAP HANA migration strategy
  • Understand the impact of “change” to your technical organization and opportunities to retrain your workforce to meet future demand

Sri Velicheti is a Director of Business Intelligence in Protiviti’s Data Management & Advanced Analytics group, advising and delivering solutions in Enterprise Transformation, Advanced Analytics, and Enterprise Performance Management using data as a strategic asset. An experienced business leader, he brings more than 15 years of work in implementing and managing enterprise wide applications driving results, extracting value to steer business growth with forward-look analytics.

Vinay Suneja, who joined Protiviti’s Data & Analytics practice in 2016 and is currently a Senior Consultant, provides Big Data analytics solutions to Fortune 500 clients. He is proficient in SAP BI/BW and Big Data technologies including Design Studio, Lumira, Webi, HANA and Hadoop.


Mastering the SAP HANA Security Model
Speaker: Jonathan Haun, Director – Business Intelligence
Thursday, September 14 @ 11:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Central / 2:00 pm Eastern

Join us for this thorough overview of how SAP HANA’s security mechanism works. You’ll walk through technical explanations and practical examples, including best practice strategies to properly provision users and manage repository roles, explore how third party authentication can integrate with SAP HANA, and find out how to provide selective access to data using analytic privileges and more.

Key Learning Points

  • Gain best practice strategies to properly provision users and manage repository roles
  • Explore how third-party authentication can integrate with SAP HANA; see examples using SAML and Kerberos authentication
  • Find out how to provide selective access to data using analytics privileges in SAP HANA

Protiviti’s Jonathan Haun wrote the book on HANA Security – literally! He’s recently published the SAP HANA Security Guide via SAP Press and has co-authored three other books on HANA-related topics.


What to Consider when Moving to HANA 2.0
Speaker: Jonathan Haun, Director – Business Intelligence
Thursday, September 21 @ 11:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Central / 2:00 pm Eastern

This webinar will introduce you to a comprehensive overview of everything needed to implement or upgrade to HANA 2.0, the “next generation data management platform for digital transformation.” This includes impacts to SAP applications, key changes to the platform as well as information regarding the hardware and operating systems required.

Key Learning Points

  • Discover what’s new and different with HANA 2.0 and what steps are ahead to implement or upgrade to HANA 2.0
  • Examine the hardware required to support HANA 2.0
  • Understand what operating systems are required to support HANA 2.0

Protiviti’s Jonathan Haun is widely regarded as a HANA experts and recently wrote the book on HANA Security – literally! He’s recently published the SAP HANA Security Guide via SAP Press and has co-authored three other books on HANA-related topics.


Best Practices for Optimizing HANA View to Create a Robust Analytic Platform
Speaker: Marshall Kelley, Manager – Business Intelligence
Thursday, September 28 @ 11:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Central / 2:00 pm Eastern

SAP HANA is an extremely fast and powerful tool, but has your organization solved the challenge of how to best optimize HANA views for speed, flexibility and reusabilty? Attend this session to hear strategies for creating an analytical foundation in SAP HANA, which can then be leveraged directly for simple analysis and/or re-used in secondary views for advanced analysis.

Key Learning Points

  • Fundamentals of HANA modeling, and why these techniques are crucial to performance
  • Why HANA models are like icebergs and why it’s important to pay attention to what’s under the surface
  • How to optimize all types of HANA views to achieve speed, flexibility, and reusability
  • A look at Calculation Views: current and future state
  • Why performance testing isn’t just for the racetrack
  • Common challenges faced when accommodating multiple tools and use cases

Marshall Kelley is a Data and Analytics Manager at Protivit, where he specializes in strategy, design, and implementation of end-to-end business intelligence solutions for customers across all industries. He is trusted by clients for his cross-functional skills combining technological expertise with business acumen. Marshall frequently speaks at industry conferences and is an SAP certified instructor who has trained hundreds of users in various SAP BI tools. His specialties include: SAP HANA, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP Design Studio, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft SQL Server, Business Intelligence, Information Delivery, Reporting and Visualization.


SAP HANA Deployment Options: On-Premise, Cloud or Hybrid
Speaker: Scott Golden, Managing Director – Business Intelligence 
Thursday, October 5 @ 11:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Central / 2:00 pm Eastern

Navigating the decisions around SAP HANA platforms can be daunting. In this session, Scott will review the deployment options available and offer tips on determining which might bet he best fit for your business needs, budget, and resources. Whether it’s on-premise for maximum control, in the cloud for fast time-to-value or through a hybrid model that supports a variety of deployment scenarios, this webinar will cover them all, and more.

Key Learning Points

  • Review the pros (and cons) of on-premise, cloud or hybrid platforms
  • Address security and performance concerns
  • Discuss license types: perpetual versus subscription
  • Analyze Cloud Options: Subscription, Hosted, Platform as a Service (Amazon, Azure)
  • Learn best practices to achieve maximum operational efficiencies

Scott Golden is a Managing Director in Protiviti’s Data Management and Advanced Analytics practice. He joined the firm in November 2015 when the company he co-founded, Decision First Technologies, was acquired by Protiviti. Scott brings more than 20 years of experience in developing and implementing analytic solutions across a variety of industries and involving a number of technologies. Solutions include large enterprise data warehouses, small targeted data marts, and real time ODS coupled with reporting, dashboard and visualization solutions deployed locally and in the cloud.

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