Each year, Inside SAP asks our readers who the most influential people in the ANZ SAP community were in the previous year. Here is the 2010 top 10, named in January.
1. Keith Wallis, Total Asset Management Solutions
Named as our Most Influential Person in SAP for 2009, Keith Wallis exemplifies a trend he sees gaining momentum in the SAP space – a move towards niche consulting companies with a commitment to providing quality resources and outcomes in their particular field of expertise. Wallis is head, solutions, strategy and development of Total Asset Management Solutions (TAMS), a consulting firm established in 2006 to focus solely on infrastructure, services, mining and capitalintensive industries. TAMS was created to address what Wallis believed was a lack of services and solutions in the marketplace relevant to SAP, and because “the quality of solutions being delivered had diminished” through a drop in the level of consultants’ business experience. Wallis himself has 13 years’ experience with SAP, but gained a solid background in business prior to this. He is passionately committed to getting things right for his clients, demonstrated through some of his career highlights, which include an ongoing asset implementation project for Energy Australia, with 30 maintenance systems replaced and 70 million asset records tracked in the system, as well as the Australia Post SAP upgrade in 1999, which was completed in just two months – despite doubts it could be achieved. Other successful projects in 2009 include implementations for TAB, Sydney Olympic Park and CBH.
Click here to read the full article in the October 2010 edition of Inside SAP.
