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January, 2007
In This
Issue:
2006 - Our Best Year Ever
What Makes Bursting Manager Special?
Webinar - APOS BI Tools
Overview
APOS Systems Nominated as VAR Business Partner
of the Year
Business Benefits of APOS BI Tools
Strategic Professional Services
for APOS BI Tools
Integration Kit for ESRI - Latest Developments
City of Troy Testimonial - Recorded Webinar
User Group Presentations
APOS BI Tools Suite
Custom Development
for Unique Requirements
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2006 - Our Best Year Ever
*APOS BI Tools set industry
standard
We're
happy to announce that calendar year 2006 was the best ever for APOS
BI Tools!
"On behalf of the whole APOS team, thank
you to all our customers for their continuing support. It's
wonderful to see that APOS BI
Tools are now being used by more customers, in more countries
worldwide, than ever before", said Dan Clements, President, APOS
Systems Inc.
"Stay tuned for more good things coming from APOS in the future, the
best is yet to come", said Ofir Gil, Development Manager, APOS
Systems Inc.
What Makes Bursting Manager Special?
* APOS
BI Tool of the year for 2006
Bursting Manager was our most popular product in calendar year
2006 . . . some reasons why:
• burst
one big Web Intelligence report into smaller ones and distribute
• burst one big Crystal Report into smaller ones and distribute
• more
powerful Desktop Intelligence bursting
• create
one set of business rules for bursting Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence
and Desktop Intelligence reports
•
bursting is not limited to Business Objects users – you can
burst to external destinations as well
• with the
burst, password protect PDF files or zip any available output
formats and password protect it
• business
rules are easily managed in a database, instead of loading user profiles
and constraints one by one in the Central Management
Console
Visit here
to view a web demo and review more information about Bursting
Manager.
To check out how Bursting Manager can help your organization,
please
visit here
to request demo download instructions and
our current price list.
APOS BI
Tools Overview Webinar
*Learn more about APOS solutions
Webinar - Wed, Jan 17 at 10 am P ST
(1 pm EST)
Join us for this
webinar overview of the APOS BI Tools
suite for the BusinessObjects XI platform.
The main purpose of the webinar is to
provide high level information to help you better assess the range
of solutions available.
Learn how APOS BI Tools can help
you leverage and extend the value of your business intelligence
investment.
Date: Wednesday, Jan 17, 2006 
Time: 10 am PST, 1 pm EST
Speakers:
Allan Pym, VP Sales - Eastern Region, APOS Systems Inc.
Warren Kobbeltvedt, VP Sales - Western Region, APOS Systems Inc.
APOS Systems Nominated as VAR Business Partner of the Year
*Recognition
Business Objects recently nominated APOS Systems as
VAR Business
Partner of the Year, in the Solution Innovation category.
For more information on
why we were nominated,
visit
the
varBusiness web site and select
the list of Solutions Innovation nominees, and then on the APOS
Systems link.
Although APOS did not win this category, as they say at the Oscars -
we're honored to have been nominated!
Business Benefits of APOS BI Tools
* Typical
reasons customers invest in APOS BI Tools
APOS
BI Tools address many needs of varying types for Business Objects
customers. To help you better assess the business benefits of our
various offerings as expressed by our other customers, we've
organized them into four groups.
Check out the main business benefits of APOS BI Tools in these major
categories:
Instance Administration and Scheduling
System Management and Monitoring
Extending the Platform
Integration Kits
Strategic Professional Services for APOS BI Tools
*New
professional services
For 2007, APOS now has more ways than ever before to help assess
needs, design solutions and help implement APOS BI Tools. Consider allowing us help you fast track one of
these specific areas of interest:
APOS
BI Tools Scoping Engagement - On Site
Choosing the right solution for your needs may involve a number of
APOS BI Tools, or possibly some customization as well. Before
investing in
any of our solutions, an APOS senior consultant will come to your
facilities, meet with your stakeholders, gather requirements,
consider appropriate solutions and finally, make recommendations.
Designed to fast track your assessment and decision making process,
here's an
engagement overview explaining more
details.
APOS BI Tools Proof of Concept - On Site
If getting started with an APOS BI Tools solution involves a
proof-of-concept phase, consider APOS consulting services to assist.
APOS
BI Tools Consulting - On-Site or Remote
APOS BI Tools consultants will come to your facilities, to help with
any aspect of design or implementation of APOS BI Tools within your
Business Objects system. We will also provide assistance remotely as
required as well.
APOS consultants are all certified Business
Objects senior consultants as well APOS BI Tools experts, how can we
help? Please
contact us at any time for more
information.
Integration Kit for ESRI
GIS
*New
developments
Our new
Integration Kit for ESRI GIS is generating a lot of interest as a powerful two-way bridge
between two industry-leading business intelligence solutions – ESRI
GIS and Business Objects XI R2.
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Classroom
Training Course
Now available, a comprehensive, classroom training course covering
all aspects of the design, installation and implementation of the
APOS Integration Kit for ESRI GIS.
Contact us now for more
information.
Multilingual Support
Originally developed for English, other languages are now supported.
If you're interested in a version in French, German, Spanish or other
language, please
contact us for additional
information.
QuickStart
Designing and implementing a solution integrating ESRI GIS and
Business Objects involves expertise, planning and work effort.
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 City of Troy Testimonial
- Recorded Webinar
Watch and
listen to this new
6 minute recorded segment of a
recent Webinar.
Alex Bellak, GIS
Administrator discusses their needs and how the APOS
Integration Kit provided the key integration between ESRI GIS and
Business Objects that the City of Troy requires.
To view a more complete web demo of the Integration Kit and how it works, please
visit here.
To request a demo download version, please
visit here.
User Group
Presentations *Getting the message out
APOS often provides a speaker
for regional Business Objects user groups throughout North America, presenting this
topic:
"Extending BusinessObjects XI Without Custom
Programming"
If your
local users group would like to request a speaker for one of your
upcoming meetings, please contact Warren Kobbeltvedt at warrenk@apos.com or
604-864-0766.
Upcoming User Group Participation
We're scheduled to participate
in these user groups in the near future:
• February 8 -
Columbus, Ohio,
Mid-Ohio Business Objects User Group
• May 21-25 - Berlin, Germany, European Business
Objects User Conference
• June
18-22 - San Diego,
California, ESRI International User Conference
• October 22-23 -
Sydney, Australia, AsiaPac Business
Objects User Conference
• November 5-8 - North America Business
Objects User Conference
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.
Instance Administration
and Scheduling . . .
InfoScheduler - power
batch scheduling from Microsoft Excel
Instance
Manager -
administrator power tool for managing instances
Archive Manager -
report
instance archiving, with restore
capability
Instance
Monitor - email
notification of failed instances
System Management and Monitoring . . .
Object
Manager - report
promotion, object management, security
maintenance
RealTime Monitor -
powerful SNMP
monitoring & control of servers, with alerts
KPI - metadata for
analysis - who's viewing which reports, license analysis,
server activity monitoring etc
RunTime Manager - set availability time windows for
Job Servers, Page Servers etc.
Extending
the Platform . . .
Bursting
Manager - burst a large instance into small ones, burst
one report to many
Report Package
Booster
-
consolidate reports to password protected
pdf/xls and distribute
AddressBook
Gateway -
integrate Outlook/Exchange with ePortfolio/InfoView 'schedule to
email'
View Time
Security - row level data security without
C++ development
Processing Extension
RAD - fast
track processing extension development
Integration
Kits
. . .
Integration Kit for ESRI -
two-way integration between Business Objects and
ESRI GIS
Crystal Reports BI Tools . .
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Add-In Wrapper for
BusinessObjects XI Release 2
- Crystal Reports Add-In menu fast track
integration
Solutions supported only
for Crystal Enterprise v.10 and prior . .
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Dynamic
Parameters -
SQL-based, user-specific pick lists, cascading
parameters
Distribution
Server - email
link, email content, failure notification, distribute on
alert
Subscription Manager
- allow users to
manage their own report subscription
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.
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