Customer Case Study: A Unified Data Foundation for Self-Service Analytics and Future AI

Paul Laverty

Asia Leader for Modernization | Cloud and AI Platform · Microsoft

Paul Laverty leads Microsoft’s Modernization Global Black Belt team across Asia, helping organisations transform legacy environments into scalable, AI-ready platforms. He works closely with customers, product engineering and the partner ecosystem to accelerate cloud adoption and enterprise modernisation. With experience across Microsoft, Google and VMware in EMEA and Asia, Paul brings a broad perspective on technology transformation. He contributed to the foundations of Office 365 and led Azure’s go-to-market strategy in EMEA during its early development. A regular industry speaker, Paul shares practical insights on cloud strategy, modernisation and how organisations can prepare their technology environments to capitalise on AI.

Simon Schultheiss

Strategic Partnership Lead · Microsoft

Simon Schultheiss is Strategic Partnership Lead at Microsoft.

Dimitri Zarganakis

Practice Director Analytics · NTT DATA

Dimitri Zarganakis leads the national Data and Analytics practice at NTT DATA Business Solutions APAC. He has 27 years of experience implementing SAP analytics solutions and helps organisations develop practical data strategies, connect SAP data with platforms such as Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake, and give business teams the tools to run their own analyses.

Chitrarth Kastwar

National Practice Lead Analytics Portfolio · NTT DATA

Chitrarth is National Practice Lead for Analytics at NTT DATA Business Solutions Australia. A senior BI solution architect, he has more than 14 years of experience designing and delivering SAP analytics solutions, including SAP HANA, SAP BW/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Analytics. He advises organisations on analytics architecture, governance and roadmaps, and helps business teams adopt self-service reporting. He has led analytics work on SAP implementations and transformation projects across industries including retail, utilities and automotive.