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Amick Brown Awarded SAP Consulting Contract with the City of San Diego

Karen Gildea — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 21:06:27 +0000

Amick Brown awarded a Contract with the City of San Diego to provide SAP Consulting Services

Amick Brown has been awarded a 5-year contract with the City of San Diego to provide SAP Consulting Services. This contract follows the prior contract awarded to Amick Brown in 2015. We are so proud to be able to assist the City with their SAP program and look forward to a continued successful partnership through 2025.

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Get to Know Amick Brown! Meet Arun Sullia

Karen Gildea — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 17:31:14 +0000

SPOTLIGHT – Arun Sullia, Partner and Principal Consultant

As a Partner and Principal Consultant at Amick Brown, Arun is responsible for business development, maintaining trusted relationships with customers and providing solutions and direction. Arun served as a Solution Architect at AT&T and then Accenture with a focus on SAP ERP, Data Analytics and Technology Architecture. Arun joined Amick Brown to lead its first ever project and has since then worked with our partner companies helping to win and execute work for Amick Brown. Arun, along with the other Amick Brown partners, has been successfully working on the expansion of Amick Brown’s business into the public sector and the Cloud domain. He is also responsible for establishing and overseeing Amick Brown’s subsidiary, Amick Brown India.

Arun has all-around experience in the IT industry across functional and technical domains throughout his 24-year career. He has experience in functional areas such as Finance, Supply Chain, Human Resources and Real Estate providing support in Architecture, Strategy, Vendor Selection and ERP and Analytics Solutions. He has performed various roles covering the entire software development lifecycle and numerous technologies from the development and management of complex technology landscapes to the nitty gritty troubleshooting of technical issues.

Arun has been an avid hiker since his college days and continues even now with many hiking and backpacking trips. In 2019 he has done several hikes in the California Sierras including the feat of climbing Mount Whitney in one day. He has a keen interest in history, economics and the financial markets. He also likes to spend time on sports, cooking, winemaking and music. He is a hobby guitarist and enjoys playing rock, blues and jam music.

Arun lives in San Ramon, California, with his wife of 18 years and two children who are also budding musicians.

Follow Amick Brown at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/amick-brown-llc

Connect to Arun through Arun’s LinkedIn Profile. We hope to hear from you.

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Amick Brown, LLC Awarded SBA 8(a) Small Business Certification

Karen Gildea — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 19:57:44 +0000

San Ramon, CA, September 25, 2018

Amick Brown has been certified by the US Small Business Administration (SBA) as an 8(a) Certified Small Business. Entrance into the SBA’s 8(a) business development program was granted after Amick Brown successfully completed a rigorous application process to ensure that we met the SBA 8(a) program standards.

The 8(a) certification with its associated business development opportunities has a nine-year contract period and will allow Amick Brown to pursue sole source federal and state government contracts as well as set-aside contracts allocated to 8(a) certified companies. We look forward to new opportunities to serve our customers in the government sector.

Anitha Brown, Managing Partner and Co-Founder commented saying “This is an exciting opportunity for Amick Brown. Our company has had steady growth since its establishment in 2010. Achieving 8(a) certification at this point in our history offers the potential for significant growth over the next few years.”

Amick Brown also offers the following technology services under GSA Schedule 70: SIN 132 51 – Information Technology Professional Services (NAICS 541511, 541512, 541513, 541519)

Amick Brown, LLC is an Information Technology consulting company providing IT consulting and staffing services with a focus on Cloud & Network Technologies, SAP and Business Intelligence. We are also an SBA Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and are certified by the Women Business National Council (WBENC) as a Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE). We are an SAP Services Silver Partner and are IS0 9001-2015 certified.

The company was formed in 2010 by a team of experienced IT professionals. We are headquartered in San Ramon, CA and have an additional office in Sacramento, CA. Our experienced IT professionals support customers nationwide in the commercial and public sectors. Our team has mature processes, established infrastructure and the ability to scale which enables us to quickly provide resources matching our customer’s requirements.

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Amick Brown Receives Notification of Intent to Award

Karen Gildea — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 00:19:10 +0000

Amick Brown was recently notified by the County of Sacramento of an Intent to Award for Request for Proposal #8540 to provide IT Staffing services to the County in support of their IT requirements and projects. The County’s purchasing division received 59 responses with 33 being selected. Amick Brown fell just behind IBM in the ranking.

We are excited to get to work!

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Amick Brown Receives ISO 9001 Certification

Karen Gildea — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 23:12:40 +0000

July 17, 2018 Amick Brown is proud to announce that we have been awarded ISO 9001 certification. The ISO 9001 standard is the world’s most widely recognized quality management system (QMS) certification. With more than 1 million companies certified in over 170 countries, ISO 9001 defines requirements for companies who want to ensure that their products and services consistently meet customer requirements and to continually improve their business processes. ISO 9001:2015 is the current version of the standard that can be applied to any size company in any industry. This standard is based on a number of quality management principles including a strong customer focus, risk based thinking, the commitment of top management, the process approach and continual improvement.

Our decision to pursue ISO 9001 accreditation supports our commitment to providing high-quality services to our clients and to our goals of continual improvement. We have developed our quality management system in order to improve overall performance, to maintain a high-level of quality with regard to our services and to focus on customer satisfaction.

To become ISO 9001 compliant, Amick Brown developed key process plans and documentation, a quality manual, measurement, communication and purchasing plans, as well as processes to track non-conformances and corrective actions. We would like to acknowledge The Core Solution.com – ISO Experts for Small Businesses (www.thecoresolution.com) for helping us to understand the standard, providing training to our team and guidance as we built processes to ensure our compliance.

Amick Brown underwent two comprehensive audits by Perry Johnson Registrars, Inc. (www.pjr.com) in order to achieve the certification. We are proud to say that there were no non-conformances noted.

We look forward to providing high quality services to our clients and to continual improvement.

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Amick Brown Makes the SF Business Times’ Fast 100 List for the 4th year in a Row!

Karen Gildea — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:15:33 +0000

For the 4th year in row, Amick Brown will be listed on the San Francisco Business Times’ Fast 100 list representing the top 100 fastest growing private companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. We also will be listed on the San Francisco Business Times’ list of 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the East Bay. As part of this coveted award, we will be featured in a special publication on October 20^th, as well as celebrated at a private awards event on October 17^that the Four Seasons San Francisco.

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Amick Brown a Sponsor at the SAP Innovation Day in San Diego

Karen Gildea — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 19:40:00 +0000

Amick Brown a Sponsor at the SAP Innovation Day in San Diego on August 30, 2017.

This day-long event, attended by as many of 700 people, showcases SAP solutions that the City of San Diego has implemented or is the process of implementing. In addition to serving as a sponsor of the event, Amick Brown is showcasing our SAP Analytics solutions and answering attendee questions regarding SAP BI and HANA. Come see us at the event!

Lots of activity at the Amick Brown table!

Arlo Magpantay, ERP Functional Manager poses with himself!

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Sameer Gandhi Presents at ASUG Conference

Karen Gildea — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 19:21:43 +0000

Building a Successful Business Intelligence Road Map

Sameer Gandhi presented at the Minneapolis Chapter ASUG Meeting on April 6, 2017

Presentation Abstract:

You thought you did everything right. You bought those fancy business intelligence tools, spent all that money to implement them, and deployed the required reports and perhaps a few dashboards.

However, your users think:

BI is not working
Your BI team appears to keep reinventing the wheel
You still don’t seem to get the required information in a timely manner, or
You are simply wondering how you should define an appropriate BI roadmap for your organization.

This session will provide you necessary information about building a BI road map by considering four key areas: People, Process, Data, and Technology.

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Forrester Consulting Study Finds 171% ROI on SAP BusinessObjects Analytics

Sheri Tate — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 23:48:23 +0000

By Anita Gibbings, SAP Sr Director BI Product Marketing

You know that there is plenty of money locked up in your data. But does your investment in analytics really pay off? Isn’t SAP too expensive to provide a great return on investment? The answer is a resounding ‘NO.’ In fact, Forrester Consulting found a pay-back period of under six months. Now if only all your projects had that kind of result!

You imagine what it would be like to have the right insights at your fingertips. To be able to see into the future with your real-time data and to predict the results of your decisions. The SAP BusinessObjects Analytics portfolio can get you there.

That’s why we commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct in-depth interviews with four customers on the value of an SAP analytics investment. Their financial analysis found that investing in SAP BusinessObjects Analytics had a risk-adjusted 171% return on investment and a net present value of $10.24 million for a three-year analysis period. (See this infographic of the highlights.)

In addition, SAP provides a complete, unified solution of all analytics capabilities for every line of business—data discovery, visualization, planning, predictive, and governance—avoiding all the problems with the creation of silos.

So How Did These Customers Achieve Such Outstanding Results?

1)Transformative Business Process Improvement

Forrester’s results found a 60% cost savings on tasks when the customer was able to visualize the data across multiple silos and identify best practice processes. One of the customers interviewed was able to take a task that on average used to cost $10,000 down to only $4,000 and as a result achieved risk-adjusted savings of $2.4 million annually. Being able to achieve 360° transparency can enable completely re-thinking processes, find ways to innovate, and help transform your business.

2)Predictive Power

What if you could predict the future and reduce your risks and incidents by 30%? An example in the study is of a transportation company who is using their data to predict which drivers are at risk of an accident through assembling real-time risk variables. By intervening with those drivers, they have been able to reduce the number of accidents and, in risk adjusted terms, save $3.2 million annually.

In doing so, they had achieved an unexpected benefit of an additional $1.9 annual savings because driver turnover dropped due to this practice of taking care of employees. Every industry is different, but I am sure you can imagine the risks and associated costs for your industry and imagine how seeing into the future could help you mitigate those risks.

3)Self-Service Time Savings

Do you have an image of SAP as not user-friendly and agile? Well, it’s time to revisit your assumptions! Forrester Consulting found that by using SAP BusinessObjects Analytics, customers were able to reduce report creating time to 1 hour.

One customer that they surveyed pointed to saving 28,800 hours, which would be the equivalent of about 14 full-time employees. Imagine all of the additional insights and cost savings those people could find when they can visualize data so quickly.

4)Integrated Planning and Financial Consolidation

SAP offers a complete end-to-end solution that provides many benefits. If you want to read more about how companies that have integrated their business intelligence and planning actually experience far fewer problems than those using different software tools. The Forrester study discusses a company that virtually eliminated 200 hours of financial consolidation and normalization time using the SAP BusinessObjects planning functionality.

There’s a reason that SAP is the market leader in analytics with more than 65,000 customers and a brand that you can trust to deliver a solid return on your investment.

– See more at: http://blog-sap.com/analytics/2017/01/05/forrester-consulting-study-finds-171-roi-on-sap-businessobjects-analytics/#sthash.T20LOmf4.dpuf

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BI Software Vendors Choose Their Strategies: On Premises, Cloud, or a Hybrid Approach?

Sheri Tate — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 19:42:08 +0000

by Iver van de Zand, Business Analytics Lead BeLux SAP

Where should we deploy our analytics and business intelligence (BI)? In the cloud or on premises? It’s a question that is thrown at me frequently. Most software vendors expect only 20% of the enterprises to run full cloud analytics in 2020. What about the rest? And what do you decide today? Is there an easy answer? It might seem not …..but a hybrid BI approach is!

The Evolution of Cloud Analytics

Before understanding why there is a discussion for cloud analytics and/or on-premises analytics anyway, we need to recap on the market situation a bit. When it comes to analytics, our world has changed dramatically and is still in this changing process. It is all part of digital transformation—where we initially shifted into renewed business networks with things like video collaboration, mobile devices, connected things and what have you, we’re now moving into insights-driven experiences using structured and unstructured data in real time and online. This change is massive.

Today we connect everything—devices, people, data, and processes. Enterprises, of course, undergo similar experiences; it changes the way they are competing. Data is their key asset in this competition and as such enterprises make data their strategic differentiator. Data becomes the new gold.

In the same time technology also emerged. Besides in-memory computing, we also got stable cloud platforms that leverage in-memory computing and boost performance tremendously. These platforms were welcomed a lot in today’s massive data generation. The cloud platforms are hugely attractive, given that maintenance and support efforts are limited down significantly, and in addition the platforms deliver the scalability that enterprises need today.

Analytics vendors got on top of this and provided cloud analytics tooling. SAP BusinessObjects Cloud is one of the best examples that even went a step further in answering the needs of enterprises by providing both monitoring, planning, and predictive capabilities all in ONE tool— the so-called closed loop portfolio.

The Perpetuation of On-Premises Analytics

Yet ….. it is expected that in 2020 only 20% of the enterprises will run full cloud analytics. Why only 20%? That is either because not everybody applies to today’s use cases to run analytics and business intelligence in the cloud, or because cultural differences mean that certain areas don’t feel ready to shift to cloud analytics.

So what about all the others? They still run on-premises analytics highly successfully. Software vendors keep on innovating the on-premises software, allowing it to handle the latest needs for agility, data volume and complexity, and real-time capabilities. And they succeeded in it. In the long term, we’re pretty sure all enterprises will shift to cloud analytics, but that will take another 7-10 years. In the meantime, analytics techniques need to further evolve to answer to the need of insights-driven experience and data-driven strategies. Now the question is, what should software vendors do? Should all the focus be on cloud analytics or should they continue to innovate the on-premises solutions?

The Shift from Descriptive Analytics to Predictive Analytics

To answer our question of whether software vendors should focus their developments on cloud analytics or on premises, some other elements are important too. These are the intentions of enterprises and their strategy on data insights. With enterprises using data as their core assets to be competitive, we see them shifting from the more traditional descriptive analytics (the typical monitoring) into predictive analytics. Simply put, where descriptive analytics answers “what happened” and “how did it happen,” predictive analytics tell us “what could happen.”

In the long term, this shift will further evolve towards pre-emptive analytics, quantum analytics, or even adaptive analytics:

Pre-emptive analytics: analytics focused on anticipating a certain outcome
Quantum analytics: machine intelligence and mathematics are used to “ask” the data questions (both automated and most relevant) for insights
Adaptive analytics: the ultimate goal towards fully adaptive enterprises where enterprises can predict which of the available analytical insights are really valuable

This shift to predictive analytics says a whole lot which we will discuss in other articles, but one thing is sure—it will definitely mean that we all need to bring analytics to where the data is created. That’s the place where we can create the data intelligence algorithms, so that the enterprise can predict what it needs to ask in terms of analytics questions, making them adaptive enterprises. Everything must be analytics-enabled.

We must have integration for predictive models and machine learning for a closed loop system. If we can all accomplish that, the world is ready for the opportunity of monetization and designing business models for subscribing to the outcomes of data.

Bringing the analytics to the data, means enabling almost any application with analytics. Given that the future of applications is in the cloud anyway (companies will also start using applications to their needs – a typical cloud model), we can also conclude that the future of analytics is in the cloud.

The Hybrid Approach Strategy

Enterprises, however, drive the speed and adoption towards adaptive organizations. They might shift iterative or in chunks. As such, they also drive the bigger part of the decision by software vendors to either focus on cloud or on premises. Therefore, the immediate answer is the hybrid analytics focus (it must be!).

This means that enterprises must innovate the on-premises software tooling in parallel with evolving the cloud analytics offerings. It also means that enterprises should whenever possible align them and make them interoperable. Cloud analytics must be able to interconnect with the vendor’s on-premises analytics and the other way around.

The long-term strategy of analytics vendors should be on cloud analytics. However, the adoption of cloud analytics is at a speed that in 2020 we can expect only 20% of all enterprises to be running full cloud analytics and the vast majority will still—partially—be running on premises.

Digital Transformation, however, keeps on going and enterprises need to go forward using their data insights as a competitive advantage. Short and midterm strategy for software vendors can thus only be hybrid.

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This post originally appeared on Iver van de Zand’s blog and has been republished with permission.

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