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Keatts talks about IBM ' s SAP practice in the Americas
should look like , actually implement it for them and get them to that state of utopia that they seek ,” he says . “ And even from a business perspective to be able to manage that both at an application and from an infrastructure perspective , we ' re very unique in the SAP partner ecosystem that we can do all of those things . There ' s not a partner out there that has the offerings to do the strategy , work , the implementation , the run from an application and an infrastructure perspective .”
Keatts is obsessed with data cleanliness , and suggests that in the past data was moved around to the extent that it was effectively massaged before reaching decision makers . “ Today , the business user is seeing that data in its raw state in an instantaneous fashion . We know getting that data into these environments in a very clean and continuously governed state is critical for business operations and program success . It ’ s incredibly important for both the expectations and the outcomes the business desires , and to see successful delivery of projects .
Truth in data “ There ’ s less appetite from business users to be held from the truth today than ever . They want to understand where the issues are . They want to get to them quickly , and they want to be able to identify those issues before they become a major problem . They want the opportunity to fix them in flight versus having to initiate some sort of project 1 , 3 or 12 months later .”
IBM was awarded the SAP North America Award for Partner Excellence for 2021 . For someone who has spent his entire career in the orbit of IBM and SAP , Keatts has a granular understanding of the partnership . He sums it up as “ alignment of objectives ”. “ We ’ re both about helping our clients be
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