1. Name Nishikant Reddy Alla
Mobile +44 (0) 7550179300
Key Skills
 BI Architecture / Stake Holder Mgt.
 BI Governance / Deployment
 BI Strategy / Project Management
Background Overview
11+ years of experience in SAP BW/BI Analytical solutions, leading service , governance and Architecture of several Business
Intelligence projects in UK and global BI reporting solutions across the world.
 Current responsibility is the Global SFC for Supply and R&D area, leading feasibilities through strategic assessment, specifying
information architecture for global projects (e.g.: Global SPM & Veritas projects) ensuring technical alignment with MARS IS standards
as well as fulfilling project management role.
 Was responsible as solution architect for the simplification of existing CAS TPM template resulting in 80% reduction in sizing and data
load times. Worked closely with the key stakeholders to influence on modern ways of working and future BI technologies.
 Responsible within MARS IS as solution architect for the design and delivery of Global SPM Metrics, Global Daily Business Position,
Sales Reporting and re-deisgn of various existing BW solutions.
 Was BI QA for various BI Systems, BI Governance and solutions for some of the biggest BI systems in UK and Europe.
 Responsible for the creation and management of 24/7 offshore BW service team at Boots.
 Holds masters degree in International Business (affiliated to Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) New Delhi, India).
• Role: SFC Information Delivery lead -Supply and R&D (Aug 2016 – to date) Company: MARS IS
Responsible: Involved as SFC from the initial stages of new requests to ensure the conformance to functional and architectural
strategy. This ensures the foundations for new requests are fit for future strategic global deployments. Collaborating with
functional business partnership team on requirements and defining the strategic information needs, liaising with key stake
holders and enterprise architects. Leading feasibility study and PoC for strategic BI initiatives on Global SPM project, Wrigley
Integration and Veritas project.
• Role: Lead Deployment Analyst / BI Solution Architect (Nov 2009 – Aug 2016) Company: MARS IS
Responsible: Involved as deployment analyst/solution architect from requirement gathering, architecture of local reporting
solutions, detailed design, deployment of various BI Supply chain Metrics, DBP & various sales reporting solutions through
market deployments such as ATLAS-UK, Nordics, Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Compass and Iberia. Responsible for BI
design solution, sizing, simplification of architecture, delivery of template BI solutions and transitioning of the deployment to BI
Service teams.
• Role: SAP BI Architect (Oct 2008 – Oct 2009) Company: Premier Foods plc
Responsible: Delivery of the reporting in areas of SAP PM, IM, WM, CCA. Responsible from Requirement gathering  design
delivery of robust BI solution that enabled plant maintenance engineers to monitor equipment efficiency, process orders,
warehouse management and finance business users on Cost Centre Accounting.
• Role: SAP BI Architect (Apr 2008 – Oct 2008) Company: Ofcom
Responsible: Stabilization of BI system and alignment of BI System Landscape. Responsible for the upgradation of the existing
system BI infrastructure, Alignment of BI Landscape and to stabilize existing service structure / support process.
• Role: SAP BI Architect (Feb 2008 – Apr 2008) Company: Burberry Group Inc.,
Responsible: Integration of data from SAP R/3 and SAP Retail systems to one BW model. Responsible for the design and
delivery of reporting solution to merge data from various systems to enable decision making.
• Role: SAP BW Architect / BW Performance QA (Jan 2008 – Feb 2008) Company: WHSmith Plc.,
Responsible: QA lead for the performance tuning of the BW Design, reporting solution for the biggest BI system in the UK at its
time in size (nearly 20tb). Responsible for the review of the BW Technical Design in the Information Exploitation Project and
proposed several build strategies and options for the sizing of the application and options for disaster management of BW
System.
• Role: BW Consultant/Service SPOC/BW QA (May 2005 – Dec 2007) Company: Alliance Boots GmbH (formerly Boots UK Plc.,)
Responsible: Design lead for the MI strategic reporting using waterfall approach(BW), responsible for the disaster management
of the biggest BI system of its time, reporting solution and design of underlying architecture to facilitate reporting to support
more than 3000+ BW User base.
 SAP BW Consultant – Nov’06 – Dec’07
 SAP BW Associate Consultant – May’05 – Oct’06
Previous Organization: Steria (formerly Xansa)E-mail nishi_bw@yahoo.com
Grade A7 (Senior Applications Consultant)
Company Capgemini UK Plc.,  A7 - Senior Applications Consultant - Dec’11 - Current
 SAP BI Technical Architect - Jan’08 – Dec’ 11
MARS IS Current role: SFC Supply and R&D
Relevant Work Experience
Industries
 FMCG
 IS-RETAIL
 RETAIL
 MANUFACTURING
 COMMUNICATIONS
 PHARMA
Functional Areas
SAP SD, MM, PM, QM, FI, CO, RETAIL, TM, Real
Estate, Master Data, PCA, CCA, CM, SEM, Space &
Range, CAS (TPM) & SPM etc.,
Address Melton Mowbray, UK