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“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
I had started my career with working on Mainframe...using FORTRAN, COBOL.
Time changes...Technology and System changes also. But most of the activities/milestones I can't recollect as my IT journey crosses two decades now...
In 2011, during the Leadership/Director Program, I spent a week with two mentors from Stanford and MIT. Actually that helps me to look into life in a new way... "If we see something that needs changing in our life, change ourselves and take action".
Being a guy from earlier IT generation, it was not an easy transition to expose into today's real-time info rain.
Anyway, I tried my best....this blog is also a big effort from my side.
Here is a quick snapshot for major activities 2010 onwards (and again I can't disclose some of the projects due to SAP Strategic/IP issues):-
Year 2020-21
Due to COVID-19 pandemic, mostly working from home.
Engaging more on upgrading my skillset.
- Engaged in Strategy & Solution/Service Portfolio for SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (previously known as HANA Enterprise Cloud)
- Large and Complex Deal Support
- Customer Landscape & Service Review and Optimization
Year 2019
- HANA Enterprise Cloud on GCP - Productization
- Continuation of HANA Enterprise Cloud on Azure - Productization
- Large and Complex Deal Support
- Customer Landscape Review and Optimization
- HANA Native Storage Extension
Year 2018
- HANA Enterprise Cloud on Azure - Productization
- Continuation of HANA Enterprise Cloud on AWS - Productization
- Continuation of HANA 2.0 Enablement and Productization
- Large and Complex Deal Support
Year 2017
- HANA Enterprise Cloud on AWS - Productization
- HANA 2.0 Enablement and Productization
- HANA 1.0 to HANA 2.0 Upgrade along with SLES 12 Upgrade
- HANA Dynamic Tiering
- HANA Extension Node
Year 2016
- HANA XSA
- Solution Manager 7.2 on HANA MDC
- SAP HANA SPS12 New Features - Productization
- SAP ASE 16 DR
- Multitenant Database Container (HANA MDC)
- HANA System Replication for HA/DR
Year 2015
- Captured overview knowledge on Hybris, Hadoop and Big Data, SAP ASE and SAP IQ.
- Consulting and EBC sessions for Customer on IT Transformation and HANA implementation
- Record of Achievement from openSAP for "Transformation to Hybrid Landscapes"
- SAP HANA HA and DR Solution/Setup/Configuration for CRM on HANA(Scale-up)
- Successful POC on SAP HANA System Replication
- Record of Achievement from openSAP for "Driving Business Results with Big Data"
- Successfully completed Course on Big Data Analytics using Hadoop
- Record of Achievement from openSAP for "SAP S/4HANA – Deep Dive"
- Record of Achievement from openSAP for "How the Internet of Things and Smart Services Will Change Society"
- Record of Achievement from openSAP for "SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA in a Nutshell"
- Record of Achievement from openSAP for "Digital Transformation and Its Impact"
- SAP HANA TDI Setup/Certification for EMC PROPEL CRM Production System Hardware
- SAP HANA TDI Setup/Certification for EMC PROPEL S&OP Production System Hardware
- Recognised by RedHat as "Red Hat Delivery Specialist - RHEL for SAP HANA"
- Successful Installation of SAP HANA on RHEL (Bare-metal and VM)
Year 2014
- Consulting and EBC sessions for Customer on IT Transformation and HANA implementation
- Record of Achievement from openSAP for "Extending SAP Products with SAP HANA Cloud Platform"
- Record of Achievement from openSAP for "SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA"
- Record of Achievement from openSAP for "An Introduction to SAP HANA by Dr. Vishal Sikka"
- Record of Achievement from openSAP for "SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA"
- MongoDB Online Course from MongoDB University
- Smart Data Access Solution for
i) Hadoop Integration with SAP HANA
ii) Oracle Integration with SAP HANA
iii) SQL Server Integration with SAP HANA
iv) SAP HANA Integration with another SAP HANA
- Big Data Business case using HANA SDA
i) Enterprise Data Mashup from Hadoop, Oracle, HANA
ii) Hadoop & SAP HANA data visualization in SAP Lumira
- EMCWorld 2014 in Las Vegas : SAP HANA Demo
- SAP HANA TDI Certification
- SAP HANA TDI Setup/Certification for EMC PROPEL BW Production System Hardware
- SAP HANA HA and DR Solution/Setup/Configuration for BW on HANA(Scale-out)
- DDBoost as Backup/Restore solution for SAP HANA systems
- SAP BW on HANA Go-Live
- SAP S&OP Solution on HANA
- SAP CRM on HANA build
Year 2013
- SAP HANA Certification on Technology Track
- Several Built/upgrade of SAP HANA to support HANA Modeling Development
- Working with VMware for GTM Solution
- Record of Achievement from openSAP for "Introduction to SAP HANA Cloud Platform"
- Record of Achievement from openSAP for "Introduction to Mobile Solution Development"
- Conducted several SAP HANA Overview and Detailed Technical Trainings
- Record of Achievement from openSAP for "Introduction to Software Development on SAP HANA"
- Involved in Planning & Preparation for vHANA
- Finalization on SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration Approach
- Roadmap of SAP & HANA implementation in EMC
- SAP Data Archiving Solution using EMC Documentum POC completion & Deployment Planning
- Production deployment of SAP BPC on HANA at virtual environment
- VMware HA setup/testing for vHANA
- BIG DATA Challenges / Opportunities in Indian context
- Feasibility Study for BIG DATA Opportunities[Healthcare, Education, etc.]
Year 2012
- Several upgrade of SAP HANA to support HANA Modeling Development
- Tested all types of Recovery options for SAP HANA
- Coordinated & helped Cisco for implementing HANA Scale-out implementation
- Along with SAP Consulting, implemented Operational Reporting using SAP HANA
- Along with SAP AGS, implemented SAP HANA Suite/Application Accelerator
- Implemented basic admin requirement(Alerting, User Mgmt., Role/Auth.)
- Install & configure LVM for Dev environment for testing
- Prescribed SAP HANA Backup Solution
- Conducted several SAP HANA Overview and Detailed Technical Trainings
- SAP HANA Go-Live for EMC
- EMC Proven Professional: Cloud Infrastructure and Services (EMCCIS)
- Prescribed SAP HANA Appliance Monitoring Solution
- Installed SAP HANA in a VM, Laptop for testing purpose - Virtual HANA or vHANA emerges !!
- Completion of "In-Memory Data Management" from openHPI(Hasso Plattner Institut)
Year 2011
SAP HANA Solution using Cisco UCS Server
- Throughput & Cost-benefit Analysis using different Server Components, Flash cards
- Plan, Setup and Build SAP HANA Solution using Cisco UCS C460
- Test and Validation of Cisco UCS C460 as per SAP Benchmark
- POC for NewDB (now HANA Database) Scale-out Testing using SuperMicro H/W
- SAP HANA Certification for Cisco UCS C460 in SAP Waldorf
- Documentation of Cisco H/W Solution for SAP HANA Certification
- Cisco's first implementation of SAP HANA Solution at Medtronic
- Build SAP HANA Deployment Guide at Customer site
- Build SAP HANA Support Model Framework
- Instrumented Technical Demo/Whitepaper/Presentation Materials for Global Events like SAPPHIRE, SAP TechEd, Microsoft TechEd, EMC World and Cisco Live.
- Knowledge Transition for SAP HANA Installation/Upgrade/Support activities to Cisco Advance Services
- Preparation for Test and Validation of new Cisco UCS Servers and Scale-out Solution as per SAP Benchmark
- POC for SAP HANA Solution(HANA Side-car) implemented at EMC IT.
Year 2010
Virtualization boom for SAP Application
- I have installed & configured SAP NetWeaver in Cisco UCS with Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2.
- Best way to design & host a complete SAP Landscape in Cisco UCS rack using virtual environment.
- Performed P2V and V2V SAP Application Migration Scenarios.
- Released Best Practice and Technical Guide for P2V & V2V Scenarios for SAP Applications.
- Instrumented Technical Demo/Whitepaper/Presentation Materials for Global Events like SAPPHIRE, SAP TechEd, Microsoft TechEd, EMC World and Cisco Live.
For the above journey, I came across following people -
CISCO :
Satinder Sethi, Sivakumar Kuppuswamy, Ben Eiref, Ulrich Kleidon, George Chen, Rajiv Thomas, Michael Missbach and others ...
EMC / Virtustream :
Bernhard Schulzki, Haji Aref, Michael Lang, Werner Katzenberger, Kurt Roedszus, Antonio Freitas, Ken Saul, Henrik Warner and others ...
Medtronic :
Jonathan Despotes, Parthiban Krishnaswamy
SAP :
HANA specific- Uwe Hienz, Uddhav Gupta, Greg Monaco, Roland Kramer, Ike Nassi, Rainer Brendle, Austin Chinn and others ...
SAP IT & AGS(as both - my Customer) specific- Ralf Kuhn, Joachim Bolz, Martin Heisig, Achim Buehn, Monica Rosenthal, Manuel Voigts, Tahar El Idrissi-Lamghari and others ...
SAP Managed Service specific- Bernhard Schulzki, Christoph Hermann, Juergen Mahnke, Marcos Garcia Laule, Saravanan Thangavelu, Avijit Biswas, Frank-Martin Haar, Marianne Sommer, Anke Brandstaedter-Springer, Markus Durm, Reinhold Stanek, Kai Braeutigam, Petra Thiele, Manfred Michel, Britta Funk, Stefan Bamberger, Frank Bendschneider, Susebill Schoedder and others ...