Resume of Ashok Babu.K
SUMMARY
 15+ years of SAP HANA BW & BPC experience encompassing a wide range of skill set, roles
and industry verticals.
 Design and development of HANA based business complex dataflow interfaces based on OO
ABAP and AMDP (ABAP managed database procedures)
 Extensive experience with Requirements gathering, GAP analysis, Business Blueprint,
Configuration, Development, Unit & Integration Testing, Cutover, Go Live and Production
support of SAP HANA BPC & BW applications.
 Experience translating functional requirements to technical requirements/design including
assisting stakeholders/report users with identification and definition of KPIs /Measures
 Good understanding of SD, MM, FI-CO, HR and CRM modules.
 Expertise in SAP HANA BPC & BW applications including Extraction, Modeling, Reporting.
 Solution optimization and performance tuning expertise.
 Working knowledge in Data-Provisioning techniques using SLT (SAP Landscape
Transformation) to perform real-time data replication into SAP HANA and near time data
loading into HANA using SAP BODS
 Experience in Configuring and Consuming SAP HANA models in BW clients such as Lumira,
Predictive Analysis Business Objects Explorer, Tableau and MS Excel.
 Good understanding in providing security restrictions on models using Analytic Privileges
and assigning to Authorization roles for different types of users in SAP HANA.
 Good knowledge on: HANA Optimized Info Cubes, HANA Optimized DSO’s, Transient,
Composite Providers ,Publishing HANA Model in SAP BW, Import SAP Net weaver BW Model
to HANA
 Conferred SCN Topic Leader Award 2015 in SAP BW/EPM Platform.
 Goal oriented and self-motivated leader with excellent communication, negotiation,
interpersonal and presentation skills.
SKILLS
Strategy
Keep IT Simple, Agile, Lean Six Sigma
Process
Analytic Business solution across SAP & Legacy Systems
Technology
SAP Applications, Oracle, Android-IOS, Tableau
SAP
SAP BW (3.X) 7.0, 7.3 & 7.4 SAP ECC 6.0/5.0, R/3 , SAP HANA SPS-9
BEx, BO 4.0(Web Intelligence, Analysis Edition for OLAP & Office, BO Explorer
Lumira) BPC 10.0
People
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Six Sigma , Agile, PCMMI
Ashok Babu.K ([email protected])
Languages
C, SAP-ABAP, OO ABAP, AMDP
SELECTED PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Company
HCL Technologies
Client
Duration
Oct15’ – 30 April 2016
Was this a full project lifecycle: N
Position
Sr Solution Architect (BW 7.4 on HANA SPS-09 / BO/ ABAP/ BODS)
Lego Systems A.G.
Background: Lego Group, a Denmark based Toy company founded in 1949 has about 11.75K
employees with annual revenue of US$ 4.7 billion (15’). Decided to enhance their existing reporting base
to advanced SAP Business Analytics solutions for their information integration and expanding worldwide
business demands.
Responsibilities
 Streamlining Business Requirements, Functional Analysis, Design of Data Model and Data
Loading Strategy in BW/BO.
 Develop data models/interface/Reports for the HCM, Operations, PP, and Global sustainment.
 Develop Advanced Analysis Reports over Bex queries on OLAP Data Sources on top of BW
7.4 environment.
 Load performance tuning and Report performance tuning by creating DB Statistics,
Aggregation, OLAP Cache, Compression, Indexes and Partitioning.
 Reviewing Data-modeling (BW), Scheduling, Monitoring and Reporting for the FICO, SD and
HR.
Solution Deliverables
 E 2 C (Enterprise to Customer) Solution which has 50+ Reports, Data flows-10 (Calc-10, Attr20, Analytic-20, BW-25, BO-20 & 20 Interfaces (BODS)
Company
HCL Technologies
Client
Duration
Jan15’ – Sep15’
Was this a full project lifecycle: N
Position
Sr Solution Architect (BW 7.4 on HANA SPS-9 / BO / BPC / ABAP / Tableau /
Design Studio)
Miller Coors U.S.A
Background: Miller Coors, aFortune#500 list has about 5K employees with revenue of 10 billion.
Decided to enhance their existing reporting base to advanced SAP Business Analytics solutions for their
information integration and expanding worldwide business demands.
Responsibilities
 Reviewing Data-modeling (BW & HANA), Scheduling, Monitoring and Reporting for the FICO,
SD and MM.
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Gathered & analysed the requirement to replicate the ECC content in HANA using data
provisioning
 Configuring Metadata in the Administration Workbench for replication and Updating of Data
Source from the source systems.
Solution Deliverables
 Order to Cash Solution which has 20 Reports, Data flows (BW-25, HANA-25, Calc-10, Attr-20,
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Analytic-15) & 5 Interfaces (BODS)
Company
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Client
Duration
Jan13’ – Jan15’
Was this a full project lifecycle: N
Position
SAP Account Manager (BW 7.3 on HANA SPS-6 / BPC / ABAP/ BO Lumira /
Tableau / Design Studio / Android-IOS)
Liberty Mutual Group U.S.A
Background: Liberty Mutual Group, It ranks 76th on the Fortune#100list has about 50K employees with
revenue of 121 billion. Took a strategic decision to enhance their existing reporting base to advanced
heterogeneous (SAP + Legacy) Analytics Business solutions for their expanding worldwide growth.
Responsibilities
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Developing the solution with 40+ development team from global locations.
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Extensively worked in enhancing the Extractors and data sources in ECC
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Involving in implementation projects in the financial areas CCA, G/L, AR, and AP.
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Involving in Data-modeling, Extraction, Data Loading, Scheduling, Monitoring and Reporting for
the FICO, SD and MM.
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Configuring Metadata in the Administration Workbench for replication and Updating of Data
Source from the source systems.
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Bex Query Reporting, using Business Content, Generic extraction.
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Develop top 20 customer's dashboards using WEB-I, Live Office and Xcelsius.
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Monitor the implementation of FICO Analytics for Actual and planned budgets Vs. Expenditure
in BPC.
Solution Deliverables
 Record to Report Solution which has 40 Reports, Data flows (BW-40, HANA-25, Calc-10, Attr15, Analytic-10 ) & 5 Interfaces (BODS)
SAB Miller, UK.
Company
Accenture
Client
Duration
Jul 11 – Jan 13
Was this a full project lifecycle: Y
Position
Associate Manager (BW 7.3 on HANA SPS-4 / BO / BPC / ABAP / PI)
Background: SABMiller plc. It ranks 100th on the Fortune#500 list has about 70K employees with
revenue of 23 billion.
Multinational brewing and Beverage Company decided to enhance their EDW and Business strategic
planning and consolidation solutions.
Responsibilities
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Manage 20+ member team (BW, BPC, BO, ABAP, Scrip Logic,) across multiple places and
deliver the solution. Involving in complete Full life cycle enhancement solution
implementation (SAP BW / HANA, BO, BPC, PI)
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Developed Info Objects, Info cubes, DSO, MultiProviders & Process chains as per design and
the documents.
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Setting-up of the extraction processes for Logistics and Finance Modules (FI-GL/AP/AR) using
the standard as well as Generic extractors.
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Designing the Data Flows (Master Data, Hierarchies, & Transaction Data) in SAP BW to get
the Data from different source System.
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Worked extensively on all the Bex Query development components like Structure’s, Restricted,
Calculated Key figures, and Variables…etc.
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Designed Web intelligence Reports and Used Bex to create reports with exceptions,
conditional formatting, restricted key figures & calculated Deliverables
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Involved in Info Cube maintenance i.e., Compression, Roll-up. Setup the Statistical
the LO-Cockpit and used the V3 Update for Delta Management.
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Extracting Master & Transaction Data using Generic Data Sources from OLTP.
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Implementation of various Layers as LSA Architecture.
Setup for
Solution Deliverables
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1) Market to Cash 2) Field to fridge 3) Material to Product. Solutions covers about 60
Reports, Data flows (BW-15, HANA-15) &10 Interfaces (BODS-5 & PI-5)
Adobe – (US, Europe & APAC Markets)
Company
TCS
Client
Duration
Jun 09 – Nov 10
Was this a full project lifecycle: Y
Position
Technical Lead
Background: Adobe, Incorporated is a Fortune#601 rank has about 13.5K employees with revenue of 4K
Millions. Decided to implement SAP Business analytics for its worldwide operations.
Responsibilities
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Manage 20+ member team (BW, BPC, BO, ABAP) across multiple places and deliver the
solution Worked on SAP DW and created info sources, info objects, ODS, cubes,
transfer/update rule process chains. Involved in SAP upgrade project from BW 3.5 to BI 7.0.
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Lead responsible for meeting the SLA’s for all the Data to Decision (D2D) activities related to
BW in AMEA and Europe region. Includes loads monitoring, Incidents, Service requests etc.
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Leading all the performance initiatives to improve the BW landscape taking into
consideration the early watch reports, BW Statistics, Housekeeping stuffs etc. Presented
several key initiatives in these areas to the client.
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Close coordination with the Project team /Development for various developments pertaining to
Australia and China Markets.
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Technical Cutover lead for Different Markets such as China, Australia etc.
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Created complete flow right from Generic extractor using FM till Bex Queries etc. for the Europe
region (Russia).
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Coordinating/assisting L2/L3 leads pertaining to AMEA and Europe region for various customer
raised issues and cutovers.
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Replication of various ECC Tables into HANA and Creation of various views such as Attribute,
Analytics and Calculation views as a part of POC.
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Consumption of HANA Views using BOBJ i.e. IDT, Analysis Office etc.
Deliverables
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Maintained 100% SLA consistently for almost all months which was appreciated by Client and
managers.
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Provided 48 hours continuous support during Technical Cutover and proactively resolved many
critical incidents after TCO and together with the team did Production synchronization in very
less time which got much appreciated by Client.
 Created good rapport with client at onsite and discussed improved ways of working which was
accepted and appreciated by client.
Company
Capgemini Consulting
Client
Duration
May 07 – Oct 08
Was this a full project lifecycle: Y
Position
Technical Lead
COCA COLA U.S.A.
Background: COKE is a Fortune#57 rank has about 130K employees with revenue of 46 Billion. Has SAP
based business analytics in place. Our goal is provide support and enhance the existing solutions to cater
their ongoing and expanding business needs.
Responsibilities
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Manage 20+ member team (BW, PI, ABAP)Handling and taking care of all the BW/BO/BPC
Developments including Requirement Gathering, Analyze, Design, Development, Testing,
Deployment, Support and Enhance.
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Successful Implementation of ‘Global Sales Order’ relevant to Sales incorporating several
additional logics as per the requirement. Includes development of Generic Extractor using FM
delta based, Info providers , various Start and field routines , Currency conversion ,Bex Queries,
BO Explorer info space etc.
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Successful implementation of “ITSM: Service Manager Tool” used for monitoring Incidents,
Service requests, Problem ticket etc. relevant to all the technologies used in the project. All the
developments are done in BW.
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Leading the project for Bex to BO migration.
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Created TS and supporting all the team members in resolving various complex issues
related to BW Support. Includes working on complex Tickets & Change management.
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Lead for all the Technical Cutovers, Support packs upgrade etc.
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Performing the role of DPA (Defect Prevention Analysts) in Quality related stuff for the Project.
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Leading all the Performance tuning and Housekeeping initiatives in BW space including
implementation of Early Watch reports, Statistics etc.
Deliverables
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Maintained 100% SLA consistently for almost all months which was appreciated by Client and
managers.
 Established good rapport with client at onsite and discussed improved ways of working which
was accepted and appreciated by client.
General Electric –Energy (USA)
Company
GE India Technology Centre
Client
Duration
May 04 – Jun 06
Was this a full project lifecycle: Y
Position
Offshore Development Team member
Background: General Electric is a Fortune#9 rank has about 300K employees with revenue of 146
Billion. Decided to enhance their EDW architecture for their Energy business area (SAP + Oracle +
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Sybase).
Responsibilities
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Involved in the reconciliation of data between BW & R/3 systems and Trouble Shooting.
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Involved in the scheduling and monitoring of info packages to load data from R/3 and flat files.
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Activation of standard Info Cubes and definition of new Info Cubes.
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Modified Update rules, transfer rules, update routines and transfer routines as per client
requirements.
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Analyse, design, and deploy data flows for global data load (daily, weekly and monthly).
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Ownership in defining the Naming Conventions document for BW Technical Objects.
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Active involvement in defining Transport Standard and Guidelines document.
Deliverables
 Maintained 100% SLA consistently
Company
InfoTech Enterprises
Client
Duration
Oct 02 – April 04
Was this a full project lifecycle: N
Position
SAP Team Member
Pratt & Whitney (Canada)
Background: Pratt &Whitney is a Fortune#45 rank has about 31.5K employees with revenue of 14.5
Billion. Our goal is to provide support for the existing business solutions on SAP BW.
Responsibilities
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As part of Production Support Activities, involved in the activities monitoring, raising and
resolving the tickets related to issues (errors)
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Involved in Daily Data Load Monitoring through Control M Tool.
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Data upload for both Master data and Transactional Data from the different source systems
through Process Chains into the SAP BW.
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Accepted and dispatched the tickets raised by the markets using Clarify Tool.
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Monitored the periodic global data load (daily, weekly and monthly).
Deliverables
 Maintained 100% SLA consistently
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Date
Company Name
Role
Jan 15 – Till now
HCL Technologies
Senior Technical Specialist
Jan 13 – Jan 15
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Project Manager Technical
Jun 11 – Jan13
Accenture Services
Solution Architect
Jun 09 – Nov10
TCS
Senior Consultant - SAP
May 07 – Oct 08
Capgemini Consulting Services
Senior Consultant - SAP
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Date
Company Name
Role
May 04 – Jun 06
GE – India technology Centre
Engineer
Oct 02 – May 04
InfoTech Enterprises Limited
Gr Engineer
QUALIFICATIONS
Level
PDTD
Subject
College / University
Design Engineering
Central Institute of Tool Design
CERTIFICTIION
Onsite Experience
Certification
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Canada, USA, France & Malaysia
1. Six Sigma Green Belt
2. Agile Scrum Master
3. Technology Architect