BackOffice
Associates, LLC, a worldwide leader in data
migration and information
governance, today announced a newly established BackOffice Center of
Excellence for SAP HANA as part of the company’s initiative to help
clients achieve a single data platform with the SAP
HANA® platform. SAP HANA can now be deployed in a number
of ways – on premise, in the cloud, or both. BackOffice Associates has
proven expertise in data quality, migration and governance, which are
essential components to help ensure that mutual clients of SAP
AG (NYSE: SAP) and BackOffice can gain the full benefits of SAP HANA
and achieve fast time to value with business-ready data in their
real-time business environments.
BackOffice also announced expanded consulting services in big data
strategy for its clients, and readiness assessments for SAP HANA.
Clients can obtain both SAP HANA and the new consulting services
directly from BackOffice as a result of its value-added reseller (VAR)
and other partner relationships with SAP.
“We are distinctly qualified to help achieve successful deployments of
SAP HANA, due to our ability to aggregate and harmonize data from over
100 different legacy data sources and ability to leverage
state-of-the-art data quality tools from SAP,” said Mark
Logan, chief sales officer, BackOffice Associates. “We provide the
highest-quality data to populate our clients’ systems running SAP HANA
as part of their strategic initiatives.”
The revolutionary in-memory computing enabled by SAP HANA means faster
access and processing of critical business data. Leading companies to
realize the importance of immediate access to business information and
the need for the highest levels of data quality.
“BackOffice’s strategy for a single data platform on SAP HANA is
expected to help organizations make real-time business decisions to
obtain competitive advantage,” said Steve
Lucas, president of global platform solutions at SAP. “BackOffice
has already delivered hundreds of successful migrations to SAP
environments. We welcome the launch of the BackOffice Center of
Expertise for SAP HANA, through which it will leverage its global data
expertise to focus on environments running SAP HANA.”
BackOffice is also investing in making its solutions and services
enabled and ready for SAP HANA. To drive this effort, BackOffice
announced the appointment of Elizabeth
Schenker as vice president of the business unit at BackOffice for
data effectiveness and real-time analytics with SAP HANA. Ms. Schenker
will be responsible for sales operations for BackOffice solutions and
services that are enabled by and ready for SAP HANA.
Ms. Schenker has significant experience in many regulated and big data
environments in industries such as public sector, utilities and retail.
“I am delighted to join BackOffice as it applies its deep domain
knowledge and methodology to SAP HANA and big data projects,” said
Schenker. “There is a growing need to address data quality and
information governance at the point of intersection with real-time
analytics, and BackOffice is perfectly poised to lead this market.”
About BackOffice Associates
BackOffice
Associates is a worldwide leader in data
migration and information
governance solutions, with a concentration on enhancing ERP data
quality since 1996. Our range of solutions and services address the
needs of business and IT users seeking to unlock the value of their data
assets. BackOffice Associates is a global corporation headquartered in
Massachusetts with additional offices in the US, Canada, Mexico, UK,
Singapore, Dubai, India and Australia. Company information is available
at www.boaweb.com.
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