Rate My Professor Bipin Prabhakar

Bipin Prabhakar is a Clinical Professor of Information Systems in the Operations and Decision Technologies Department within the Business & Economics faculty at Indiana University Bloomington's Kelley School of Business. He holds the Fettig/Whirlpool Faculty Fellowship and serves as Chair of Information Systems Graduate Programs and Chair of the Plus Kelley program. Prabhakar joined the Kelley School in 2008 following an 11-year tenure at the University of Cincinnati starting in 1997, where he held positions as Academic Director for the MSIS program and Director of Information Technology for the College of Business from 2002 to 2007. Designated as a SAP Fellow in Enterprise Systems from 2004 to 2008 at Cincinnati, he led the university's SAP initiative funded by a $675,000 grant from SAP America, fostering faculty expertise in ERP systems and establishing a SAP enterprise systems lab. His academic credentials include an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering, master's and doctoral degrees in information systems, CISSP certification, and accreditation as an Amazon AWS Academy instructor.

Prabhakar's research interests focus on technology adoption and the evolution of information systems job skills. His areas of expertise encompass Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP), information systems security, IT risk management, business transformation using information technology, cybersecurity, and digital core. He teaches courses in enterprise systems, IT architecture, cloud computing, and information systems security. Notable publications include co-authorship of the book “Business Process Configuration with SAP ERP” (with Simha R. Magal, Raymond Boykin, and Mary Beth Goodrich) and the forthcoming “Business Process Configuration with SAP S/4 HANA,” along with a chapter contribution to “Readings on ERP Systems.” He has published “The Paradox of Soft Skills versus Technical Skills in IS Hiring” in the Journal of Computer Information Systems (2004, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 69-76). Awards and honors include the Dr. James E. Mumford Excellence in Extraordinary Teaching Award (Indiana University, 2021), Microsoft ACE Security Fellowship (2005), EXCEL Graduate Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate Education (University of Cincinnati, 2005), and several teaching awards from the University of Cincinnati. From 2014 to 2019, he chaired the SAP University Alliances Program North American Academic Board.