About

Arun Aravapalli is an accomplished techno-functional professional with around 18 years of experience, specializing in SAP Analytics. He has extensive hands-on experience in activities of BW like modeling, reporting, and extractions. Arun has worked on 11 implementations, 6 upgrades, 16+ support engagements, 1 migration & 1 rollout project, and has led 6 SAP BW implementation projects. He has good knowledge of BW, BWonHana, BW/4HANA, SAP BO-WEBI, Lumira, Fiori, SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud), CRM, and Solution Manager. Arun has worked on Business Information Warehouse modeling, extractions, and reporting areas and has extensive experience in Business Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing, Migration, and Support areas of Enterprise Applications of SAP BW, SAP R/3, and SAP HANA-Live. He has a thorough understanding of SAP HANA, FI & CO, SD, MM, CRM, and SAP BO-WEBI. Arun is an expert in performance tuning, evaluating statistical performance using BW Statistics, and suggesting recommendations to Basis support for optimization. He has improved data load and query performance by doing Compression, creating Aggregates, and Rollups. Arun has excellent interpersonal & communication skills to work cross-functionally with other enterprise team members and ensure all applications & reporting solutions are clearly integrated and synchronized. As an Offshore Lead, he has been responsible for providing solutions to technical issues, meeting development schedules, and ensuring the delivered solution meets the technical specifications and design requirements. He has worked in BW Support environment meeting SLA, resolution of tickets, and service delivery management, and has an excellent working knowledge of BW Front End Tools, Query Designer, BEX Analyzer, and Business Objects Web Intelligence tool. Arun has excellent interpersonal, analytical, troubleshooting, negotiation, and team-building skills and abilities in planning and managing resources. He has extensive experience in support, Data loads, Validation and troubleshooting of transaction data and Master data, Change management, Transport Management, Roles & Security, System Checks, Performance tuning, and process chains. Currently, Arun is working as a Solution Architect - Analytics at Dickinson + Associates, a Navisite company. He is involved in requirements gathering for Dashboards and their development. He has developed Analytical Applications using SAP Analytics Cloud and made use of Live and Import connections to get data from source systems. Arun has trained users on how to navigate and