Robert Holland
Cloud Leader, WIS & ERP Today
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Cloud Platform and Technology
ERP Today Expert Exchange – Season 1
In the first three episodes of ERP Today – Expert Exchange, host Robert Holland explores how leaders are transforming their businesses with Acumatica Cloud ERP. From strengthening financial resilience at Tester Construction, to building a truly connected enterprise at Tech...
Cloud Platform and Technology
How Cloud ERP Empowers Frontline Managers
Robert Holland speaks with Matt Shamp, Executive Director at Carlson Levine Construction, about leading the company’s transition to Acumatica Cloud ERP in 2021 and the lasting impact since go-live. Matt explains how moving away from rigid, IT-gatekept systems empowered frontline managers to shape their own processes, access real-time data, and create custom reports without costly customizations or delays. He highlights how this flexibility improves client relationships, supports lean operations, and scales with business needs through consumption-based pricing. Matt also reflects on managing generational differences in technology adoption, the importance of setting boundaries around system flexibility, and how technology fluency is becoming as essential for leaders as financial literacy—reshaping executive roles for the future.
Cloud Platform and Technology
How Cloud ERP Creates a Truly Connected Business
Robert Holland talks with Manish Chandrak, President & CEO of Tech Electronics, about the company’s rapid move to Acumatica Cloud ERP and how it’s already transforming their operations just four months post–go live. Manish highlights the hidden costs of disconnected systems, from redundant communication and delayed responses to inefficiencies in licensing and reporting, and explains how Acumatica’s connected, real-time data now empowers field technicians, streamlines workflows, and improves customer experience. He also shares why ERP success depends on a business-first mindset and leadership engagement, and looks ahead to how open platforms, IoT, and AI will further shape the future of connected enterprises.
Cloud Platform and Technology
How Cloud ERP Builds Financial Resilience in Construction
Robert Holland sits down with Jay Feynman, CFO of Tester Construction, to discuss how moving from QuickBooks to Acumatica’s cloud ERP transformed the company’s operations. Jay shares how the pandemic forced them to rethink outdated, paper-heavy processes and how real-time data, stronger controls, and streamlined reporting gave the business agility to weather disruption, improve efficiency, and support project teams in the field. He explains how better financial insight, faster month-end closes, and reduced overhead have not only strengthened resilience but also positioned Tester to adapt quickly to future challenges. Watch now to hear how Acumatica helped turn disruption into long-term competitive advantage.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Rami Amkieh
ERP Today’s Robert Holland sat down with Rami Amkieh, Senior Vice President Middle East and Africa at SNP, to discuss the challenges faced by customers in the Middle East and Africa, how SNP is working with those customers to support their transformation goals, and the technologies that SNP is using to facilitate those transformations.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Don Mahoney
Robert Holland from ERP Today sat down with Don Mahoney, Chief Customer Officer at SNP, to talk about the challenges that customers face in finding the right approach to transformation, the preparations they can make regardless of a final transformation decision, and what makes successful transformation projects different.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Richard & Daniela Bühler
Richard Bühler, Head of Global IT at Cerdia, and Daniela Bühler, Head of IT Applications at Cerdia, sat down with Robert Holland of ERP Today to talk about their move to SAP S/4HANA. Having a long history with SAP, beginning with SAP R/2 and SAP R/3, and following a launch as a standalone company in 2019, Cerdia needed to move their SAP landscape from their SAP ECC 6 system. They have now completed their move to SAP S/4HANA, going live in April on RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Saleha F. Al-Kuaisi
Robert Holland from ERP Today talked with Saleha Al-Kubasi, Head of SAP at Qatar Chemicals, and Ravi Mahalingam, Managing Director of SNP Middle East, about Qatar Chemicals’ recent move to SAP S/4HANA on RISE with SAP. With over 20 years of history with SAP, Qatar Chemicals needed to update their systems, user experience, and transition to the cloud.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – SNP Japan & Accenture Japan
Robert Holland from ERP Today sits down with Shuhei Hotosanhi, Managing Director of SNP Japan, Mitsuhiro Wake, Managing Director of Accenture Japan, and Hiroki Irisawa, Associate Director of Accenture Japan, to talk about the unique challenges faced by Japanese customers, how SNP and Accenture are collaborating to support digital transformation journeys, and what considerations will be most important for customers over the coming year.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – SNP ANZ & IBM Australia
Robert Holland of ERP Today sat down with Richard Checketts, Managing Director ANZ at SNP, and Marcus Scott, SAP Practice Lead at IBM Australia, to talk about how the unique factors impacting customers in Australia and New Zealand and how SNP and IBM are collaborating for success.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Adriana Bassi
ERP Today’s Robert Holland talked with Adriana Bassi, IT Executive Manager at Raizen about the company’s crucial transformation to SAP Business Suite on HANA. Coming from a situation where their existing SAP ECC 5.0 deployment has been running without mainstream maintenance for over a decade, including the associated cybersecurity and business continuity risks, the strategic move also aimed to help the organization create a path for a future deployment of SAP S/4HANA.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Stronger Together
ERP Today’s Robert Holland sat down with SNP CEO Jens Amail at SNP Transformation World in Heidelberg, held from June 25-26, to understand what SNP is doing to support customer transformation and understand how the company is building on their...
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Sandrine Pons
ERP Today’s Robert Holland sat down with Sandrine Pons, Managing Director of SNP France and General Manager of SNP Iberia and BeNeLux at SNP Transformation World, to talk about the unique challenges faced by the customers in the regions she...
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Tara von Metzen
SNP’s Head of Products and Innovation, Tara von Metzen, sat down with ERP Today’s Robert Holland to talk about new developments that have been launched over the last year as well as what is on the roadmap for the future. Kyano brings together the data migration capabilities that have been available for years in SNP CrystalBridge and enhances them with everything from enabling business agility to continuous assessments.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Tim Garippa
Tim Garippa, Transformation and Innovation Lead at Adobe Technology, sat down with Robert Holland of ERP Today to discuss Adobe’s recent transition to SAP S/4HANA including a migration from a very large source system and a short deadline for completion. Garippa appeared on stage during the SNP Transformation World keynote along with other SNP customers to talk about Adobe’s success and the role that SNP played in their project.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Thomas Pfiester
Following his participation in the opening keynote at SNP Transformation World, ERP Today’s Robert Holland talked with Thomas Pfiester, Head of Global Customer Engagement and Services and Member of the Extended Board of SAP, about the transformation and innovation journey to SAP Business Suite, how SAP is helping customers get to the point where they can use AI in their day-to-day operations, and SAP’s relationship with SNP.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Jens Amail
ERP Today’s Robert Holland sat down with SNP CEO Jens Amail at SNP Transformation World in Heidelberg, held from June 25-26, to understand what SNP is doing to support customer transformation and understand how the company is building on their Kyano platform to make it a fully composable platform to enable business agility and integrate data management, migration, and continuous business assessments.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Robert Schmaltz
DHL Group is currently undertaking a global SAP S/4HANA transformation program, with Robert Schmaltz, Global Head of Process Standards and Governance, overseeing the process model and ensuring its fit for various entities. DHL has a long history with SAP, including legacy systems from R2 to R3 migrations, and is now transforming a "very customized, very grown SAP system".
Cloud Platform and Technology
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SAP
Cloud Platform and Technology
SAP appoints Sebastian Steinhaeuser COO alongside leadership changes and strong 2024
SAP's FY2024 earnings call not only showcased strong financial performance with significant increases in cloud revenue and profitability but also revealed a new leadership structure including the appointment of Sebastian Steinhaeuser as Chief Operating Officer and the introduction of an Extended Board.
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Security
SAP and Onapsis collaborate to provide security incident response
SAP customers hold essential responsibilities for threat detection and incident response in both on-premise and cloud environments, necessitating a clear understanding of roles and collaboration with SAP for effective cybersecurity incident response management.
ERP Strategy and Planning
What Julia White’s appointment to CMO means for AWS and SAP
Amazon has appointed Julia White, formerly of SAP and Microsoft, as its new CMO and VP of AWS, where she is expected to leverage her extensive cloud and AI experience to strengthen AWS's position in the competitive cloud market, particularly against Microsoft Azure, while potentially deepening the partnership with SAP.
ERP Strategy and Planning
SAP now Europe’s Tech MVP with Q3 showing: The Expert View
SAP announced a strong Q3 performance and raised its annual revenue and earnings guidance performance, gaining $26bn in market value to grab the top spot as Europe’s most valuable tech company.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Oracle announces a new era of collaboration at CloudWorld
Oracle CloudWorld heralded a flurry of announcements, focusing on the need to cater to customer demand and accelerate overall cloud adoption.
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