RichardLichtenstein
President
With over 35 years of experience in Executive Management in the IT community, Richard recently led the Global SAP Alliance for VMware.
With over 35 years of experience in Executive Management in the IT community, Richard recently led the Global SAP Alliance for VMware.
Patrick is responsible for the company’s strategic orientation as it aligns with the evolution of clients' needs and market trends both in the United States and Canada.
Pierre graduated from the Université du Québec à Montréal and began his career as an auditor for PWC. A member of the Quebec Order...
With over 25 years SAP experience and focused in the area of the virtualization and cloud enablement of SAP, Matt is deeply skilled in SAP development.
Seeking a dynamic individual who has a proven Information Technology (“IT”) Professional Services background with emphasis on customer success and building a services delivery organization for the ESI Group of Companies affiliates Solsys and Civatree.
MIAMI, FL - Civatree Technologies, the leading provider of services and solutions for SAP on VMware today, announces a new partnership with IBM Cloud. Customers moving their SAP workloads to VMware on IBM cloud will reduce operations efforts by two-thirds, improve application availability (avoiding downtime), and achieve improvements in performance and latency. TCO savings of up to 70% are possible for customers utilizing a hybrid approach to their SAP or SAP S/4HANA.
Civatree’s President Richard Lichtenstein said, “Civatree is proud to be at the center of this exciting solution. 54% of SAP customers surveyed are planning to deploy S/4HANA leveraging VMware technologies, and IBM cloud will allow for further savings when customers reduce their data center costs by an average of 40% over three years.”
According to IBM’s Public Cloud Partner Specialist, Mark Gels, “IBM has a differentiated value proposition in the market around both SAP and VMware running on IBM Cloud. Civatree is a trusted partner that can provide value added services to a client looking to migrate their SAP services running on VMware to the public cloud. Very few partners possess the capability and deep expertise that Civatree brings to our joint clients.”
“Civatree’s industry leading SAP on VMware design and migration services extend to IBM Cloud hybrid offering. Our customers continue to look for cost cutting while keeping VMware’s platform. This combination delivers that,” states Lichtenstein.
"IBM Cloud has the widest portfolio of SAP-certified, high performance IaaS services that can be combined with specialist expertise from Civatree. Our clients leverage IBM Cloud to meet current business needs, including data center exits of SAP on VMware,” adds Gels.
Civatree, IBM and VMware presented the benefits of the solution at VMworld 2021. On demand download of the presentation is available via VMware.
Civatree Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of ESI Technologies, is the leading SAP on VMware services partner and the preferred SAP services organization of Dell Technologies. Civatree offers solutions to meet customers’ needs wherever they are in their SAP or SAP HANA journey, providing services and products that modernize SAP deployments, from migrations to cloud enablement, automation, and disaster-recovery. Whether it is designing and architecting or conducting a health-check to help improve and transform an existing environment, Civatree is the trusted advisor throughout the journey. Through Civatree’s collective experience, they deliver innovative solutions that greatly reduce costs and enable customers to capitalize on solving today’s SAP efficiency challenges.
Civatree is based in Toronto, Ontario and Miami, FL.
Civatree Technologies, the leading provider of services and solutions for SAP on VMware today, announces a new partnership with IBM Cloud.
MIAMI, FL, USA, July 13, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Civatree Technologies, the leading provider of services and solutions for SAP on VMware, Migration and Automation today announces a joint partnership with Xceleon, LLC, a global technology-consulting firm that provides application lifecycle management services for enterprise level firms and government entities across the globe. They are jointly building out their new Design Center, which will be an extended SAP S/4HANA solution including application lifecycle management (ALM) and Civatree’s existing SAP on VMware platform services.
Civatree’s President Richard Lichtenstein said, “As customers are rolling out their new SAP S/4HANA solutions, Civatree and Xceleon services accelerate the rollout of SAP S/4HANA over 80% quicker than industry standards.”
Part of this exciting new offering is Xceleon’s XTA Dell Appliance which also incorporates all the great features of Dell’s SAP HANA technology.
Allen Clingerman, Chief Technology Strategist for PowerEdge at Dell Technologies said, “Dell Technologies is very excited by this new joint offering with two of our most valued and trusted SAP partners. The XTA Appliance we recently launched with Xceleon incorporates the software and skills necessary to assess, design and train customers throughout the lifecycle of their SAP S/4HANA Application suite. Combine that with Civatree’s 10+ years of experience at some of the largest SAP customers in the world, this dynamic team is best positioned to help our customers achieve successful SAP migrations, deployments and business outcomes. Together these two organizations are creating significant customer value by automating the entire SAP ecosystem with VMware and the entire lineup of Dell Technologies aligned VMware solutions.'
Craig Brown, Xceleon’s Chief Transformation Architect & Chief Value Officer said, “Transforming SAP environments to S/4HANA can be a daunting task for customers. Leveraging a proven process including SAFe and a pre-configured Dell application lifecycle management bundle, Xceleon and Civatree look forward to working together to help enterprise level organizations transform their SAP environment to an intelligent enterprise.”
SAP customers will be able to realize over 50% of TCO savings with this combined solution. Over the next days and months, Civatree and Xceleon will produce informational videos and other training materials to help customers understand how this solution can work for them. Civatree’s popular Art of the Possible sessions will also open to collaborate with Xceleon, further engaging customers.
Civatree Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of ESI Technologies, is the leading SAP on VMware services partner and the preferred SAP services organization of Dell Technologies. Civatree offers solutions to meet customers’ needs wherever they are in their SAP or SAP HANA journey, providing services and products that modernize SAP deployments, from migrations to cloud enablement, automation, and disaster-recovery. Whether it is designing and architecting or conducting a health-check to help improve and transform an existing environment, Civatree is the trusted advisor throughout the journey. Through Civatree’s collective experience, they deliver innovative solutions that greatly reduce costs and enable customers to capitalize on solving today’s SAP efficiency challenges.
Civatree is based in Toronto, Ontario and Miami, FL.
Civatree Technologies, the leading provider of services and solutions for SAP on VMware, Migration and Automation today announces a joint partnership with Xceleon, LLC,
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, February 2, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Civatree Technologies is now offering free “Art of the Possible” custom whiteboard sessions to current and future SAP HANA & S/4 HANA customers, wherever they are in their SAP operational journeys. These virtual meetings enable all levels, from technical to decision maker, to discuss best practice solutions with Civatree’s SAP on VMware experts, with a focus on better business outcomes, including reducing TCO of SAP.
Civatree began offering private “Art of the Possible” meetings to select VMware and Dell clients running SAP in early 2019, both onsite and online – the offering gained popularity during the Covid pandemic, and Civatree is now offering them to a wider audience in a virtual-only format. Civatree launched a public [5-minute video] on February 1, 2021 detailing their Art of the Possible sessions, suggesting potential 1-hour topic ideas commonly requested by current and past clients – these include Automating SAP on VMware, Enhanced Disaster Recovery for SAP, SAP Specific Cloud Enablement Options, Keeping SAP on VMware Healthy, and the Road to SAP HANA.
“Art of the Possible” sessions are not sales calls, webinars, or seminars – they are interactive sessions. Civatree experts start with a Q&A session to get a baseline picture of where an organization is and where they want to be. Then the team sketches solutions specific to the business based on other SAP client experiences utilizing industry best practices. Sessions focus on solving today’s efficiency challenges as well as cost savings.
Civatree’s ‘Art of the Possible’ is grounded in best-practices and is customized to unique business requirements and operational realities. This is not a one-size fits all approach but is a purpose built, scalable architectural design and deployment methodology that delivers real world success and real-world business benefits.
Businesses with SAP HANA or S/4 HANA, or those working toward moving databases to SAP HANA, are encouraged to submit requests for Art of the Possible to info@civatree.com, or inquire with their VMware or Dell contacts.
Civatree Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of ESI Technologies, is the leading SAP on VMware services partner and the preferred SAP services organization of Dell Technologies. Civatree offers solutions to meet customers’ needs wherever they are in their SAP or SAP HANA journey, providing services and products that modernize SAP deployments, from migrations to cloud enablement, automation, and disaster-recovery. Whether it is designing and architecting or conducting a health-check to help improve and transform an existing environment, Civatree is the trusted advisor throughout the journey. Through Civatree’s collective experience, they deliver innovative solutions that greatly reduce costs and enable customers to capitalize on solving today’s SAP efficiency challenges.
Civatree is based in Toronto, Ontario and Miami, FL.
Civatree Technologies is now offering free “Art of the Possible” custom whiteboard sessions to current and future SAP HANA & S/4 HANA customers, wherever they are in their SAP operational journeys.
WATCH VIDEOVideo series features SAP industry experts
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, November 16, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A new web series, “Civatree Talks”, created by PSO Civatree Technologies, begins airing in November 2020 on www.civatree.com and will distributed across social media outlets YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter. The series features industry experts who partner with Civatree, talking SAP topics and more with Civatree’s President, Richard Lichtenstein, in short, 15 to 20-minute “fireside chat” style videos.
The series aims to talk about emerging trends, answer questions on popular topics and talk in the context of business outcomes on SAP-related topics like virtualization of SAP, migrating SAP HANA ahead of the 2027 SAP support cutoff, and implementing cloud and hybrid cloud strategies.
The first episode debuted on 11/13/20 (View Link) and is part 1 of a 3-part segment with VMware’s SAP Global Alliance Director, Dominic Uliano. Uliano is a recognized and highly regarded expert within the SAP Ecosystem who leverages his extensive SAP knowledge and expertise to create VMware’s strategic SAP Technical Vision and Roadmap at VMware. He works closely with SAP to ensure the highest level of collaboration and joint execution between SAP and VMware on strategic initiatives such as virtualized HANA, Mobility, End User Computing, and Cloud.
Civatree looks forward to sharing the VMware segments with Uliano throughout the month of November, which have completed filming, followed by a series with Dell Technologies.
Richard Lichtenstein, Civatree’s President and host of the series, said, “We are excited to team up with our great partners like VMware to share the latest information to help SAP customers understand options that will allow them to understand the blueprint to modernize while realizing great savings.”
Civatree Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of ESI Technologies, is the leading SAP on VMware services partner and the preferred SAP services organization of Dell Technologies. Civatree offers solutions to meet customers’ needs wherever they are in their SAP or SAP HANA journey, providing services and products that modernize SAP deployments, from migrations to cloud enablement, automation, and disaster-recovery. Whether it is designing and architecting or conducting a health-check to help improve and transform an existing environment, Civatree is the trusted advisor throughout the journey. Through Civatree’s collective experience, they deliver innovative solutions that greatly reduce costs and enable customers to capitalize on solving today’s SAP efficiency challenges.
Civatree is based in Toronto, Ontario and Miami, FL. civatree.com
A new web series, “Civatree Talks”, created by PSO Civatree Technologies, begins airing in November 2020 on www.civatree.com and will distributed across social media outlets YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter.
WATCH VIDEOMiami, FL May 4, 2020 – Civatree Technologies (headquartered in Toronto, ON Canada), a leading provider of services and solutions for SAP virtualization, migration and automation, announces the expansion of their business in the United States. Civatree Technologies USA, Inc. opened its US headquarters in downtown Miami, FL in November 2019. Within months of launching, Civatree Technologies USA’s Dell certification was accelerated to Dell Gold Partner distinction.
“We are excited to expand our offerings in the US,” stated Richard Lichtenstein, President, Civatree Technologies. “As one of the leading SAP infrastructure and virtualization consultants, Civatree is completely dedicated to the Dell Technologies solutions stack, including VMware, and we continue to work with Dell Technologies on turnkey SAP solutions. This will help customers gain large cost savings and eliminate risk.”
As part of its expansion, Civatree also relaunched a newly redesigned website on May 1, 2020. “It’s a creative and clean site that will allow us to build on to our other branding efforts”, said Lichtenstein. “We wanted a polished look to our brand that reflects our established leadership position in the industry as we expand to newer markets.”
The site debuted to Civatree and its partners on April 30, 2020. It highlights a new partner portal that allows partners like VMware and Dell Technologies to privately access shared resources to support and accelerate the sales process. The overall website is more user friendly with well-planned information architecture and effective navigation and clean code, all of which creates a strong user experience for both customers and partners.
Civatree Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of ESI Technologies, is the leading SAP on VMware services partner and the preferred SAP services organization of Dell Technologies. Civatree offers solutions to meet customers’ needs wherever they are in their SAP or SAP HANA journey, providing services and products that modernize SAP deployments, from migrations to cloud enablement, automation, and disaster-recovery. Whether it is designing and architecting or conducting a health-check to help improve and transform an existing environment, Civatree is the trusted advisor throughout the journey. Through Civatree’s collective experience, they deliver innovative solutions that greatly reduce costs and enable customers to capitalize on solving today’s SAP efficiency challenges. Civatree is based in Toronto, Ontario and Miami, FL. www.civatree.com
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Civatree Technologies (headquartered in Toronto, ON Canada), a leading provider of services and solutions for SAP virtualization,...
Montréal, Québec, June 14, 2018 – ESI Information Technologies today announced the acquisition of Civatree Technologies, a leading provider throughout North America of services and solutions for SAP virtualization, migration and automation.
“ESI’s acquisition will allow Civatree to expand its services to SAP clients including our cloud offerings”,stated Richard Lichtenstein, President, Civatree Technologies. “We look forward being part of the ESI family and their long term legacy of driving client solution excellence.”
“Civatree’s expertise and experience deliver business outcomes to clients looking for cost-effectiveness for their SAP environment. Civatree adds value to ESI’s purpose to manage, protect and transform data. This addition to ESI’s portfolio brings a new value to our current expertise, while enabling us to offer our servicesto new customers across Canada and the US.” said Greg Rokos, President and CEO, ESI Technologies.“We are very excited about the new opportunities that this acquisition brings to both Civatree and ESI andare confident that adding Civatree’s expertise in SAP on VMware will complement our current service offering.”
Delivering value-added virtualization services to Fortune 100-500 companies, Civatree has been laser-focused on virtualization of SAP on VMware since the company’s inception, including associated advisoryworkshops, planning and design of the infrastructure, database and SAP migration efforts. Civatree isVMware’s partner of choice for virtualization of SAP. Civatree is also partnering with VMware to offer hybridcloud solutions by using VMware Cloud on AWS. To learn more about Civatree, visit www.civatree.com
ESI Technologies helps accelerate businesses by connecting the critical areas of data transformation into knowledge. ESI’s mission is to provide innovative and quality solutions to manage, protect and transformthe data generated by its customers activities. ESI offers cutting-edge technology expertise and a deep understanding of business challenges to gain real value from data volumes to make them a tangible competitive advantage in an ever-changing market. Based in Montréal, ESI also has offices in Québec City and Toronto. To learn more about ESI, visit www.esitechnologies.com
“ESI’s acquisition will allow Civatree to expand its services to SAP clients including our cloud offerings”, stated Richard Lichtenstein, President, Civatree Technologies. “We look forward being part of the ESI family and their long term...
On behalf of David Gallant, ISBU, Product Management and the Integrated Systems Business Unit, we are very pleased to announce the General Availability of VMware Adapter for SAP Landscape Management 1.4.1.
VMware Adapter for SAP Landscape Management integrates SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) with VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) technologies, allowing SAP BASIS administrators, VMware administrators, SAP project and business stakeholders to automate provisioning and management of SAP landscapes running on VMware’s SDDC. The adapter is a key component of VMware private cloud solution for SAP, which defines the software stack to virtualize, secure and automate SAP environments leveraging VMware’s software-defined architecture. At its core, it includes VMware vSphere, VMware NSX, vRealize Automation and the VMware Adapter for SAP Landscape Management and will help to bring SAP Consumers closer to IT Providers, by leveraging for instance an optional service portal to perform SAP system deployments and management tasks instead of using administrator and system tools.
This release of the adapter is a very important maintenance release. With this release, we continue to enhance support for vRealize Automation and the system automation application interface (SA-API). These enhancements pave the way for additional customers to adopt SAP LaMa, and VMware’s SDDC.
For customers interested in deploying the Adapter in production SAP landscapes, we are introducing the option to purchase Production-level support from VMware GSS.
A free community edition of the Adapter will continue to be available for non-production environments.
Visit the VMware Adapter for SAP Landscape Management Product Page
VMware Adapter for SAP Landscape Management integrates SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) with VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) technologies,...