Accelerating IT to the speed of business

Many organisations are facing the same challenge: finding funds and capacity to accelerate innovation and digital transformation. The landscape is constantly evolving, and IT departments face increased operating costs and limited capital, the loss of skills through the ‘great resignation,’ and limited access to modern innovations.

How are successful organisations managing the complexity and demands of their current enterprise software environments without compromising on their ambitions for the future?

Join Rimini Street experts, Ronen Fox, Service Solution Architect, SAP, Anthony Griffin, Manager, Business Solutions Finance — EMEA and Gordon Smith, Director, SAP Applications Support for a practical guide to support and services for business-critical applications. They’ll provide real-world examples of the multitude of options available to you and show how you can take control of the journey your organisation is on.

Get further insight into:

SAP Roadmap: Your options for innovation: Focus on your business needs, maximise your current investment, and accelerate your innovations. Move at your own pace and according to your priorities
Smart Path Forward: Learn how to Optimise, Evolve, and Transform your SAP applications to stay ahead of the curve and define the business of tomorrow
Customisation: Learn about the possibilities in application support for mission-critical code customisations that you’d never receive from software vendors
Resourcing: The alternative to your vendor’s preventative maintenance services and how this can empower you to reallocate IT resources to where you need them most
Tax and Legal Compliance: How can you stay informed and help ensure compliance with every tax, legal, and regulatory change in all your operational jurisdictions?

Speakers

Ronen Fox

Service Solution Architect, SAP
Rimini Street

Ronen Fox is an expert in the implementation and management of SAP solutions with nearly 25 years’ experience working in Israel for SAP and onsite at customers in diverse industries, including oil and gas, media and the food industry.

Ronen joined Rimini Street in 2019 and is a Service Solution Architect for SAP products, helping customers to optimize and transform their existing applications to ensure stability and deliver value to the business.

Prior to Rimini Street, Ronen held a variety of roles working with SAP applications. Most recently, he was a Workflow Consultant at an SAP partner implementing SAP projects for a wide variety of clients, allowing them to better manage and monitor their business processes. He also held roles at various SAP customers defining new strategies, leading development and implementing teams to adopt new technologies, as well as becoming an instructor in the local SAP training center teaching courses on SAP technology and SAP business workflow.

Ronen was a team leader at SAP’s Israel operation for four years managing the local support and localization teams. This was a period of significant growth in SAP projects in Israel and Ronen’s team supported each version with a compatible country version as SAP transitioned from 4.6 to the ECC versions of its business applications.

Anthony Griffin

Manager, Business Solutions Finance – EMEA
Rimini Street

Anthony is the Business Solutions Manager for EMEA Financials at Rimini Street, overseeing the creation of Tax and Regulatory Updates for SAP and EBS clients. He has been with Rimini Street for 6 years, prior to which he implemented ERP systems across Europe for a variety of public and private organisations. A Certified Scrum Master and with an accounting background, he strives to promote quality in the updates we create to keep our clients legally compliant.

Gordon Smith

Director, SAP Applications Support
Rimini Street

Gordon Smith has played an integral role within the SAP function at Rimini Street for the last 8 years, holding the title of the Director of SAP Applications Support at Rimini Street for the last three. He is responsible for overseeing consistency and continued excellence of the delivery of the SAP Support model, including training and mentoring of regional SAP service leaders to ensure Rimini Street continues to meet the highest standards of support within the industry. Prior to Rimini Street, Gordon was a Certified Principal SAP Logistics Execution / Materials Management Consultant and Instructor at Rosethistle IT, and Logistics Execution Consultant, instructor and Team Leader at SAP (UK).