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January, 2006
In This Issue:
APOS Signs as ESRI Developer Partner
Add-In Wrapper for
Crystal Reports XI Release 2
APOS Freeware
RealTime Monitor - New
Product Announcement
APOS BI Tools for
BusinessObjects XI Release 2
InfoScheduler - New
Features
Instance Manager - New
Features
User Groups
Participation
APOS BI Tools Suite
Custom Development for Unique Requirements
APOS Signs as ESRI™ GIS Developer Partner
*GIS and mapping solutions
Jan 3, 2006 . . . APOS Systems is pleased to
announce its
recent signing as an ESRI GIS Developer
Partner. In this exciting new venture, we
plan to work on the development of
integration solutions between
BusinessObjects™ XI and ESRI GIS. For more information about the
ESRI Developer Partner program that we are
now part of, please
visit here.
ESRI Overview
ESRI is the world leader in the 1.1 billion
GIS software market. To learn more about
ESRI, ESRI products and services, plus see
some examples of how GIS is utilized in
various industries,
visit here.
APOS and ESRI Plans
APOS is currently working on some new
product solutions to facilitate integration
between the BusinessObjects XI/XI Release 2
platform with the ESRI ArcIMS/GISServer
platform. If you're interested in
contributing some input to our development,
please
let us know!
Also, if you're attending the
ESRI Federal User
Conference in Washington, DC on
Jan 31 - Feb 2, please drop by and visit
with us in the Business Objects booth!
Add-In
Wrapper
for Crystal Reports™
XI Release 2
*Our first tool for Crystal Reports
The Crystal Reports Add-In interface allow
third party software to integrate with
Crystal Reports through menu items. Crystal
Reports will ask each add-in for its list of
menu items and then display those items on
its menus. When the user selects one of the
add-in menu options, the add-in is called
with the ID of the menu item and the file to
apply it to. This allows the third party
add-in to act on the file Crystal Reports is
working with.
The APOS Add-In Wrapper for Crystal Reports
XI Release 2 is comprised of a DLL
(c2cBridge.dll) which encapsulates all the
nitty gritty "C" code required to build the
menu system. Developers can write their
applications which will be invoked from the
Crystal Reports menu in any COM supporting
language, like Visual Basic®, or Visual
Studio .NET ®.
The APOS Add-In Wrapper bridge DLL
(c2cBridge.dll) provides COM compatible
wrappers for all the parameters that need to
be passed between Crystal Reports and your
application. Use it to add in-house add-ons
to Crystal Reports that facilitate your
company business processes or development
requirements, or write your own killer app
for Crystal Reports.
To check out how APOS Add-In Wrapper for
BusinessObjects XI Release 2 can help your
organization, please
visit here
to request demo download instructions and
our current price list.
APOS Freeware
*Yes, it's true, software, no charge
We've developed a variety of useful tweaks
and solutions for BusinessObjects XI and Crystal Enterprise that
we offer on our web site. Note
that APOS Freeware is provided complimentary
and without support.
Password Changer
Utility
*New freeware item
Now available for both BusinessObjects XI
and Crystal Enterprise - a utility that
allows an administrator to change any user's
password. A real time saver for those
painful situations that come up from time to
time!
Visit here
to download this or any APOS freeware
solutions.
RealTime Monitor
for BusinessObjects XI and Crystal
Enterprise
* Cool
new APOS BI Tool
The initial
positive feedback we've received on this
new APOS BI Tool involves 'Alerts' . . .
many of our customers want to be
'Alerted' if certain system conditions
occur. Here are some examples of alert
conditions that RealTime Monitor can
monitor for you:
•
Cache Server - too many queued requests
•
CMS
- online or offline
•
CMS
- slow login
•
CMS
- too many concurrent licenses
•
CMS
- too many connections for a user
•
Input/Output Server - disk space warning
•
Job
Server - maximum jobs level reached
•
One
or more XI services enabled or disabled
•
One
or more XI services online or offline
•
Page Server - threads vs. connections
ratio too high
•
Page Server - too many queued requests
•
RPT
Viewer - error
•
RPT
Viewer - slow performance
• WEBI - too many connections
In
addition to these powerful alerting
capabilities, RealTime Monitor also
delivers:
•
Auditing Log Analysis - view the
auditing log live or filter
the log for specific
information
•
Graphical View of System Activity
- live or historical analysis
•
Server Control - analyze and control all servers
from one command
•
Off-Line Historical Activity
Analysis - metadata about system
operational activity
Please
visit here
to see a Web Demo of RealTime
Monitor for BusinessObjects XI and
Crystal Enterprise.
RealTime Monitor is available now as a Beta product,
please
visit here
to request demo download instructions and
our current price list.
APOS BI Tools for
BusinessObjects XI Release 2
*
Beta sites needed
We're now looking for beta sites for our APOS BI
Tools for BusinessObjects XI Release
2. If you're interested in our
beta program
for APOS BI Tools for BusinessObjects XI
Release 2,
please let us know.
BusinessObjects XI Release 2 provides substantial functional
improvements and innovations across the
BusinessObjects XI platform. Now included is
full platform-level support for Desktop
Intelligence™ (formerly BusinessObjects full
client) to allow a smooth transition path
for all existing customers who have invested
in that technology.
InfoScheduler
for BusinessObjects XI and Crystal
Enterprise
*Powerful new features added
InfoScheduler
adds powerful Excel-based batch scheduling
capabilities to BusinessObjects XI and
Crystal Enterprise.
Some recently added new features:
Event-Based Batch Scheduling
•
schedule 'Events' can now be included in the
batch for each report scheduled
•
set an
'Event to Trigger' after successful batch
item scheduled
XML Support
•
Export batch schedules to an XML file
•
Import batch schedules from an XML file
(Instance Manager, InfoScheduler or other)
Please
visit here
to see a Web Demo of InfoScheduler for
BusinessObjects XI and Crystal Enterprise.
To check out how InfoScheduler can help your
organization, please
visit here
to request demo download instructions and
our current price list.
Instance Manager
for BusinessObjects XI and Crystal
Enterprise
*Powerful new features added
Instance Manager
is an administrator power tool for managing
large instance systems,
some powerful new
features have recently been added . . .
XML Support
• export properties to
InfoScheduler structure in XML format
Reschedule with Edit
• 'Print Settings' can now be
changed when rescheduling
• 'Retry Attempts' and
'Retries Allowed'
can now be changed when rescheduling
• string parameters now allow
blank spaces to be entered as valid
parameter values
To check out how Instance Manager can help
your organization, please
visit here
to request demo download instructions and
our current price list.
User Group
Presentations
*Ongoing participation
APOS often provides a speaker for regional
user groups throughout North America,
presenting a topic "Extending
BusinessObjects XI and Crystal Enterprise".
If your local users group would like to
request a speaker for one of your upcoming
meetings, please contact Warren Kobbeltvedt
at
warrenk@apos.on.ca
or 604-864-0766.
Upcoming User Group Participation
We're scheduled to participate with these
user groups in the near future:
January 17 – Atlanta, Georgia
January 20 – Waukesha, Wisconsin
March 23 - Charlotte, North Carolina
APOS
BI Tools Suite
*Extend BusinessObjects XI and Crystal Enterprise
One of our challenges is keeping our
customers and colleagues current on the APOS
BI Tools suite as it grows.
Visit here
to request demo download instructions and our current price list.
Administration - System Monitoring . . .
Instance
Monitor
- email notification of failed instances
RealTime
Monitor
-
powerful SNMP monitoring & control of
servers, with alerts
KPI
- creates metadata for analysis - who is viewing which reports, license
usage analysis, server activity monitoring
and more
Administration - Scheduling . . .
Bursting Manager - burst a large
instance into small ones, burst one report
to many
InfoScheduler
- power batch scheduling from Microsoft
Excel
Administration - Instance Administration
. . .
Archive
Manager
-
report instance archiving with business
rules, with restore capability!
Instance
Manager
- administrator power tool for managing
large instance systems
Administration - System Administration
. . .
Object
Manager
- report promotion, object management,
security maintenance
RunTime Manager
- set availability time windows for Job
Servers, Page Servers, etc.
Extending the User Interface
. . .
AddressBook Gateway
- integrate Outlook/Exchange with
ePortfolio/InfoView
'schedule to email'
Dynamic Parameters
- SQL-based,
user-specific pick lists, cascading
parameters
Extending Distribution
. . .
Report Package Booster
-
consolidate
reports to password protected pdf/xls and
distribute
Distribution
Server
- email link,
email content, failure notification,
distribute on alert
Subscription Manager
-
allow users
to manage their own report subscription
Row Level
Security . . .
Processing Extension RAD
- fast track
processing extension development
View Time
Security
- row level data security without C++
development
Crystal Reports
BI Tools . . .
Add-In Wrapper for BusinessObjects XI
Release 2
- Crystal
Reports Add-In menu fast track integration
Custom Development
for Unique Requirements
If you have a
unique reporting system requirement, let us
know. We love to work on special projects
and regularly save our customers a lot of
time and money by using APOS BI Tools as a fast-track foundation for a specific
customized solution.
Head Office: 285 Fountain Street
South, Cambridge, ON, Canada N3H 1J2
Tel: 519.653.APOS(2767) - Fax:
519.653.8511
Branch Office:
#10 - 35537 Eagle Mountain Drive,
Abbotsford, BC V3G 2Z4
Tel: 604.864.0766 No Toll:
866.629.APOS(2767) Fax: 604.864.4291
Email:
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www.apos.on.ca
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