VVijjaay G.M
Vijay G.M, Business & Data Analyst and SAP Analytics leader

15+ years in SAP Data & Analytics

SAP Data Analytics, Solution Architect and Reporting Leader.

I help enterprises modernize SAP Analytics, simplify complex reporting landscapes, strengthen data governance, and bridge business requirements with scalable technology solutions. I bring strategic leadership, stakeholder alignment, and delivery excellence to complex enterprise transformation initiatives. My 15+ years of experience spans SAP BW/BI | ABAP | SAP HANA | Enterprise Reporting | Stakeholder Engagement | Global Delivery | S/4HANA Embedded Analytics | SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) | SAP Datasphere | SAP BW/4HANA | CDS Views | SAP Transformation & Delivery, with an evolving focus on Cloud Data Platforms and AI-Ready Analytics. I combine deep technical expertise with strategic thinking and cross-functional leadership to drive innovation, operational excellence, and measurable business value.

15+
Years in SAP Data & Analytics
10+
End-to-End Implementation
6
Industry Sector Experience
40+
Consultants Mentored

Executive Profile

Professional Overview & Leadership Expertise

I am a Senior SAP Analytics, Solution Architect, and Reporting Professional with 15+ years of experience delivering Enterprise Reporting, Business Intelligence, and Data-Driven Solutions, complemented by strong leadership expertise in driving strategic initiatives, managing cross-functional teams, and overseeing complex enterprise engagements. My expertise spans SAP BW/BI | Business Requirements Analysis | Solution Design | Functional and Technical Specifications | Stakeholder Management | Strategic Leadership & Delivery Governance. I specialize in bridging the gap between business needs and technology execution, simplifying complex reporting requirements, analyzing existing system landscapes, and enabling effective collaboration across business and technical teams. In my leadership capacity, I focus on aligning technology initiatives with organizational objectives, fostering high-performing teams, driving stakeholder engagement, managing delivery commitments, and providing strategic direction to ensure successful business outcomes. With a strong foundation in SAP analytics and a growing focus on modern data platforms and AI-enabled solutions, I am passionate about helping organizations transform enterprise data into reliable insights and measurable business value while driving innovation, operational excellence, and sustainable business transformation.

  • Focus
    SAP Datasphere, BDC, SAC, S/4HANA Embedded Analytics, ABAP CDS View, AI Usage.
  • Industries
    Manufacturing, Retail, Services, Finance, Product and Oil&Gas,
  • Delivery
    Greenfield Implementations, Global Rollouts, Migrations, Support and Enablement
  • Based in
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Career timeline

Career Progression & Leadership Roles

  1. Associate Director: SAP Analytics & Enterprise Reporting Leader

    JUNE 2017 — TILL-NOW

    Deloitte South Asia LLP, Bangalore

    Client Name: Ford, Shell India Marketing Pvt Limited. Bangalore (Xenon), PMI, Unilever PLC

    Team Size: 12

    SAP Environment: cFIN, S/4 HANA On-Premises, Embedded Analytics, CDS views, Dataspheres

    Contributions:

    • Led business discovery workshops and fit-gap assessments to define reporting and analytics requirements for SAP S/4HANA transformation programs.
    • Defined the target-state analytics architecture by assessing SAP BW Extractors, BEx Reports, CDS Views, and SAP Datasphere integration requirements. (Brown-field scope)
    • Evaluated standard SAP Fiori analytical applications and designed extension strategies to address complex business finance, AA reporting needs while maximizing SAP standard capabilities.
    • Established reporting catalogues, data product frameworks, governance standards, and delivery roadmaps across Finance, Procurement, and Supply Chain functions.
    • Provided functional leadership for Embedded Analytics initiatives, driving solution design, stakeholder alignment, requirement sign-off, and successful project delivery.
    • Delivered end-to-end SAC dashboard solutions leveraging embedded analytics on Central Finance (cFIN) for Financial KPIs, including standard and custom CDS view development, complex business logics, and reusable reporting templates.
    • Implemented Classic Account-Based Modeling in SAC to design CxO-level analytical dashboards and operational reports; successfully achieved Historical Trend analysis by designing a custom Z-table, scheduled through a customer program at higher semantic layers.
    • Architected a multi-layered CDS view framework (Base → Composite → Consumption) to optimize SAC integration, enabling advanced blending behavior and interactive features such as radio buttons, dropdown filters, and dark/light mode toggle for improved user experience.
    • Partnered with Finance and Business stakeholders to translate requirements into data models and KPIs, ensuring accuracy, scalability, and alignment with financial reporting standards.
    • Optimized performance of SAC dashboards through query tuning, data volume handling, and semantic modeling for real-time financial insights.
    • Developed reusable templates and design guidelines for SAC dashboards, reducing future development effort and ensuring consistency across reports.
    • Coordinated with cross-functional teams (FI, CO, R&A, IT) to streamline data integration across SAP S/4HANA, CFIN, and SAC ensuring trusted financial insights for decision-making.
    • Hands-on expertise in CDS views (annotations, aggregations, associations, and value help) for exposing data to SAC in real-time live connections.
    • Designed and implemented security concepts (row-level authorizations) in CDS and SAC to align with client’s compliance requirements.
    • Migrated legacy reports from BW/Excel-based solutions to SAC, achieving modernization and faster data-to-decision cycles.
  2. Team Lead: SAP HANA, BW/BI & ABAP Consultant

    NOV 2016 — JUNE 2017

    Tech Mahindra Limited, Bangalore

    Project Name: IBU NESTLE

    Team Size: 12

    SAP Environment: SAP BI 7.5, BW on Hana Modeling 1.15, BODS

    Contribution:

    • Worked as part of SAP BW SCM L3 team, involved under many change requests under Water flow Process.
    • Handled Service manager and service Center and ticket assignment to team by ensuring the appropriate analysis and validation.
    • Precisely worked on SAP BW 7.5 version of Business flow enhancement.
    • Co-ordination between L2 and L3 teams, P2 ticket handling activity, helping the team on technical clarification.
    • Convert Design into deliverables by applying best practices
    • Perform testing, ensure testing standards are followed.
    • Support / Facilitate Application Operations.
  3. SAP ERP Application Delivery Analyst-Business Assist

    JULY 2016 — NOV 2016

    Shell India Marketing Pvt Limited, Bangalore

    Project Name: Business One and Planning One

    Team Size: 3

    SAP Environment: SAP BI 7.4, SAP PPM, BPC 10.1

    Contribution:

    • My role is responsible for all Business one and Planning User to provide necessary business role authorization and supporting.
    • Provide the AMS support on SAP PPM system and BPC system.
  4. Senior Software Engineer: SAP BI Integrated Planning Consultant

    SEP 2014 — JULY 2016

    MINDTREE Limited, Bangalore

    Client Name: Esprit De Corps

    Team Size: 2

    SAP Environment: SAP BI 7.0, ECC 6.0, Retail, AFS

    Contributions:

    • Esprit has implemented industry solution component of AFS and IS-Retail system, are integrated with BI system.
    • Moreover, BI system act as APO system where all planners will do planning operations on different verticals report. (Like Fashion, Body wear, Licensee, Retail, EShop, PSS, WHS products).
    • Most of Assortment and Allocation operation has been implemented through BI_IP application and by customized programs using ABAP OOP's language and Outbound RFC interfaces.
    • Worked on Web based Report of Assortment Planning and Allocation Process, and Manual Allocation Release process.
    • Ability to Delight the Client by clear Communication and Business process understanding and solution and requirement gathering.
    • Handling the BW_IP and OOPS_ABAP Application support and enhancements if required.
    • Implemented and supporting customized planning function types, WebDynpro, APD applications.
  5. Associate Consultant: SAP BW/BI & ABAP Consultant

    MAR 2011 — SEP 2014

    YASH Technologies Pvt Limited

    Client Name: Paragon, Hema’s and Base Corporation , Accenture India Private Limited, Hyderabad Industries Limited

    Project Name: AMS and Development , Unilever Private Limited (U2K2) –Global Support

    Team Size: 27

    SAP Environment: SAP BI 7.0, ECC 6.0.

    Contributions:

    • Ability to handle a pipeline of numerous tickets, in terms of prioritization, categorization between break-fix and enhancements, etc.
    • Responsible for the configuration, operations, and business coordination of a large SAP BW system. demonstrated BW expertise related to designing the infrastructure, designing/building/managing info-cubes, daily operations procedures and trouble shooting.
    • Ability to work closely with clients to find solutions and identify business process improvements.
    • Ability to analyze functional and technical needs and identify gaps and alternative /work around solutions relative to existing design.
    • Involved In Extraction of Source System (SAP ECC) of New General Ledger (0FI_GL_10, FI_GL_14), Account Payable (0FI_AP_4), Account Receivable (0FI_AR_4) Records and IM (2LIS_03_BX, 2LIS_03_BF, 2LIS_03_UM) Using SAP Standard Data Sources.
    • Installed Standard Business Content Objects as Per Project Requirement. Client Interaction about Report Layout Types.
    • Worked Extensively on Data Warehouse Workbench for Modeling Activities and Remodeling.
    • Worked on Customized Info Object, Info Cube, DSO, Data Sources, Transformations and Different Types of DTP.
    • Enhanced the Data Source as per Client Requirement Using the Enhancement Component RSAP0001 to Fill the Data into Enhanced Fields through lookup Method.
    • Created and Developed Multi-Dimensional Reports Based on Info Sets and Multi Provider.
    • Involved in Performance Tuning of Queries by Maintaining Aggregates, Compression, Partition, Repartitioning and Indexing of Info Cubes.
  6. SAP ABAP Trainee

    SEP 2010 - FEB 2011

    JK Info Tech Pvt Limited, Bangalore

    Attended the SAP ABAP training classes, Hand's-on Practices from Corporate Trainer who worked in similar technology for extended years.

  7. Quality Assurance Engineer

    AUG 2008 - JULY 2010

    CENTUM INDUSTRIES PRIVATE LIMITED.

    • Worked for ISRO, VSSC clients.
    • Responsible for Inspection of military grade DC parameters to be followed on devices and testing method, Master Device, Debugging.

Core capabilities

What I Bring to the Table

SAP Analytics & Enterprise Reporting

SAP BW/BI (3.X and 7.X), BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, Bex Reporting, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), AFO, Datasphere and S/4HANA Embedded Analytics.

SAP Transformation & Modernization

Legacy BW landscape modernization, SAP upgrades, Reporting transformation and cloud adoption strategies.

Business & Data Analysis

Business requirement discovery, KPI definition, FS and stakeholder alignment across finance, supply chain and sales departments/product owners.

Data Architecture & Integration

Adopt SAP best practices and methodologies, Enterprise data modelling, ABAP CDS Views for extraction and reporting model , ABAP, cross-platform integration and scalable data solutions.

Delivery & Stakeholder Leadership

Client engagement, solution assessment, technical governance, cross-functional collaboration and global delivery.

Business & Technology Alignment

Translating complex business requirements into practical, sustainable and value-driven technology solutions.

Data Governance & Optimization

Improve reporting efficiency, data quality, transparency and enterprise decision-making.

AI-Ready Enterprise Analytics

Exploring the intersection of SAP, cloud data platforms, automation and AI to enable intelligent, future-ready enterprise solutions.

Technology stack

My Technology Ecosystem

SAP Core

  • SAP BW/BI, BW4HANA
  • SAP HANA
  • SAP ABAP / OO ABAP
  • ABAP CDS Views & AMDP
  • SAP ECC / S/4HANA (On-premises, RISE)

Analytics & Reporting

  • SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
  • BusinessObjects (WebI, Lumira)
  • Bex Query Designer,
  • Power BI, Tableau
  • Excel / Analysis for Office (AFO)

Data & Integration

  • SLT / BODS replication
  • SQL & SQL Script
  • Data modelling (LSA++)
  • ETL design
  • Data Quality & Reconciliation

Project Delivery Tools

  • Agile & Hybrid Delivery
  • JIRA / Solution Manager
  • Requirement workshops
  • Test & Defect Governance
  • Onsite-Offshore Leadership
AI

AI Tools & Usage

I use AI to accelerate delivery, not to replace judgement — from drafting requirements and code assistance to surfacing insights in reporting layers.

Agentic & Generative AI Agents

Draft functional specs, translate business requirements into user stories, and accelerate documentation for SAP programmes. well-versed with Claude Code, AI-workflow Design using Docker.

GitHub Copilot

Speed up ABAP, SQLScript and CDS view development with contextual suggestions and code review support.

Power BI AI features

Use Q&A, key-influencer visuals and anomaly detection to surface insights faster for business users.

Python & Jupyter notebooks

Ad-hoc data profiling, reconciliation checks and exploratory analysis before modelling in SAP.

SAP AI Core / BTP

Explore enterprise AI scenarios such as predictive reporting and intelligent data quality on SAP datasets.

Interactive SAP architecture

Explore the Architecture of a Modern SAP Data Analytics Platform

Consulting framework

How a Engagement Conducted, End to End Delivery

  1. Weeks 1–2

    1. Discovery

    Stakeholder interviews, report inventory, pain-point mapping and a candid view of data quality.

    • · Report inventory
    • · Pain-point map
    • · Quick-win list
  2. Weeks 3–5

    2. Design

    Target architecture, KPI dictionary, data ownership model and a sequenced delivery backlog.

    • · Target architecture
    • · KPI dictionary
    • · Backlog
  3. Sprint cycles

    3. Delivery

    Incremental builds with business validation each sprint, automated regression on core figures.

    • · Working models
    • · Test evidence
    • · Release notes
  4. Go-live +6 weeks

    4. Adopt&Scale

    Persona-based enablement, floor-walking and self-service guardrails so usage actually sticks.

    • · Training kit
    • · Adoption metrics
    • · Support model
  5. Continuous

    5. Optimise

    Usage analysis, performance tuning, retirement of unused reports and a rolling improvement plan.

    • · Usage review
    • · Tuning log
    • · Roadmap refresh

Technology radar

What Works, What’s Emerging & What to Avoid

AdoptPlatforms

SAP Datasphere

Default target for new enterprise data products.

AdoptConsumption

SAP Analytics Cloud

Standard for dashboards and planning stories.

AdoptModelling

ABAP CDS analytical views

Preferred over BEx for S/4-native reporting.

AdoptPlatforms

BW/4HANA

Still the backbone in many estates; keep it healthy.

TrialWays of working

SAP Build Process Automation

Useful for approval-heavy reporting workflows.

TrialPlatforms

Databricks / lakehouse side-car

For non-SAP volume and data science workloads.

TrialWays of working

abapGit / gCTS

Brings real code review to ABAP delivery.

AssessConsumption

Joule & embedded AI analytics

Promising; needs clean semantics first.

AssessModelling

Knowledge graph on master data

Watching for master-data-heavy landscapes.

HoldModelling

New BEx query development

Out of strategic direction; migrate instead.

HoldConsumption

Universe-style shadow extracts

Creates competing numbers; retire them.

Business-domain experience

Cross-Functional and Domain Expertise

Manufacturing

5+ yrs
  • ▸Production & Plant reporting
  • ▸Scrap and yield analysis
  • ▸Inventory Ageing

IS-Retail & CPG

8+ yrs
  • ▸Sales & Margin Analytics
  • ▸Out of Stock, TPR, Coupon, Loyalty,
  • ▸Rebate, Salesman Performance,
  • ▸Assortment Performance
  • ▸Promotion effectiveness

Supply Chain & Logistics

6+ yrs
  • ▸OTIF and service levels
  • ▸Stock coverage
  • ▸Freight cost visibility

FI and Group Reporting

7+ yrs
  • ▸Profitability (CO-PA)
  • ▸Cost Centre reporting
  • ▸Period-close dashboards,
  • ▸Trend Reporting

Procurement

4+ yrs
  • ▸Spend analysis
  • ▸Supplier performance
  • ▸Contract compliance

Sales & customer

6+ yrs
  • ▸Order-to-cash(OTC) analytics
  • ▸Customer profitability
  • ▸Pipeline reporting

Case Studies

Challenges Faced, Solution Delivered

SAP Roadmaps

How a engagements Conducted, phase by phase

  1. 01

    Phase 1

    Discovery & Assessment

    Landscape review, data source inventory, pain points and reporting maturity baseline.

  2. 02

    Phase 2

    Blueprint & Data Model

    Target architecture, KPI definitions, layered scalable model and governance rules.

  3. 03

    Phase 3

    Build & Migration

    Extractors, CDS/AMDP logic, HANA optimisation and migration of legacy reports.

  4. 04

    Phase 4

    Adopt & Scale

    Self-service enablement, dashboard rollout, hypercare and continuous improvement.

Articles

Notes from the field

Teams

The Minds Behind the Solutions

Delivery team reviewing reporting dashboards in a workshop

Every programme in my tenure was delivered by a team — analysts, developers, testers and process owners working across time zones. My role has consistently been to keep that group aligned on one definition of done, numbers the business trusts, delivered on the date we committed to.

  • Onsite-offshore delivery models across global rollouts
  • Structured mentoring for new consultants entering SAP
  • Documentation and handover that outlives the project

CV

Full Curriculum Vitae

Detailed project history, certifications and references — available as a PDF.

Contact

Let's talk about your reporting landscape

Advisory, Programme Delivery, or a second opinion on an SAP Analytics Build and Roadmap — send a note and I'll come back to you.

Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India