Technologist

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” —Pablo Picasso
As a pioneer in the field of analytics, Scott Gehring has been an influential industry leader in defining best practices around global enterprise information system design, implementation, and integration. With 30 years of industry experience, Scott has built hundreds of solutions for companies ranging from small-mid-business to large-scale enterprise organizations, helping to drive process improvement, tighten the link between business and IT, and provide the latest innovations in information technology.

scott gehring

Technology career highlights
Over his career, Scott has focused on providing excellent products and services, moving ideas from inception to reality, and building high-functioning teams.
Scott is a Managing Director for Breakaway Technologies. His current role focuses on professional services management, business development, talent mentorship, and future-forward technology R&D.
Scott was the founder and creator of the BPM Connect Integration Framework in 2006, a rapidly deployable integration-in-a-box solution for analytics systems. The success of BPM Connect was driven by the goal to provide companies with a best-in-class, high-performance data integration solution while simultaneously yielding implementation time and cost savings.
BPM Connect was patented in 2007 (Patent # US20080140692A1), certified by SAP as a best-of-breed RDS solution in 2013, and deployed in many Fortune 500 companies.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Summary of industries Scott has built technology solutions for:
  • Communications
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Financial
  • Food and Beverage
  • Gaming
  • Government Contracting
  • Life Sciences
  • Manufacturing
  • Parking/Real estate
  • Retail
  • Services
  • Technology
Business Process Focus
  • Scott Gehring's business process expertise centers on the following areas:
  • Performance Management – Technologies and methodologies that generate consistency and measurability across finance, HR, marketing, and operations.
  • Planning – Including budgeting and forecasting, predictive forecasting, and management reporting.
  • Consolidations – Legal, statutory, intercompany, and external reporting.
  • Business Intelligence (BI) – Data modeling, visualization, and self-serve analytics.
  • Advanced analytics – Predictive analytics and machine learning, decision tree workflow optimization, and analytical database modeling.
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - Opportunity pipeline management, funnel analytics, connecting forecasts to actuals.
Applied Technologies
  • During his career, Scott has always been hands-on with technology. His knowledge includes both on-prem and cloud-based computing models, distributed and multitenant system architecture. The following list illustrates the depth and breadth of Scott's technical expertise:
  • Enterprise Performance Management: SAP BPC (all versions and platforms), SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), IBM Planning Analytics (TM1).
  • Business Intelligence: SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BW (all versions), Business Objects (4.x series).
  • ERP Integrations: SAP S/4-ECC-R3, SAP Business One, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle Financials, Peoplesoft, Lawson, JDE, Epicor, Infinium, JBA, FDM4, Fourth Shift, Island Pacific, MASS, Great Plains, ADP (payroll), Salesforce (CRM), AppX.
  • Databases: SAP HANA (2.0 and prior), SQL Server (all versions), Oracle 8-19, DB2, Microsoft Access, Progress, FileMaker Pro, Informix.
  • OLAP: Microsoft Analysis Services, SAP BW, IBM TM1.
  • Platforms: Windows (all versions), Linux, AWS, Azure
  • Languages: C#, T/SQL,PL/SQL, HANA SQL. Python, ABAP, JSON, BPC Script Logic & Rules, MDX, WPF, Java Eclipse (Juno, Kepler), VB(4,5,6,.NET), VBA, JavaScript, C++, HTML, XMLA, ActiveX/VBScript, VBA, JQuery, Visual Studio.
  • Protocols: RFC, REST, LDAP, SOAP , HTTP, TCP/IP, SFTP, RDP, WAP.
  • Securtiy: HTTPS, Kerberos, SAML, CORS, SSO, SSL.
  • Web: ASP.NET, IIS, SharePoint, Apache Tomcat, DOM, CSS, AJAX, XSLT, XPATH, XML, JavaScript, HTML, MSGraph.
  • ETL and Data Access: SSIS, BW Process Chains, Data Services 4.0-4.1, RFC, DTS, ODBC, OLEDB, ADO.NET, Data Direct, .NET Managed Providers, JDBC, Datawatch (Monarch, Data Pump).
  • Remoting Technologies: Terminal Services, Citrix, Putty.
  • Object Models: BADI, CLR, DMO, ADO, DSO, ADSI, DNA, DOM, Tkinter.
  • Distributed Technologies: SAP RFC, .NET Web Services, .NET Remote, COM+, DCOM, ActiveX, MQSeries.
  • Desktop: Power Automate, MSOffice; MSAccess (all versions), Excel (all versions), Word (all versions), PowerPoint (all versions), Edge, Mozilla, Chrome, Opera.
Check out Scott's Technology Whiteboard for expressions on advanced and emergent trends in analytics.
The Competing Dualities of Business Analytics and How to Find the Golden Mean
The 7 Types of Spreadsheet Use Cases
The Golden Triangle of Analytics