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April, 2007
In This
Issue:
Sales of APOS BI Tools Set New Records
Business Objects Announces APOS Award
Webinar - APOS BI Tools
Overview
Sharing Special APOS BI Tools Reports - Win an iPod
Object Manager for BusinessObjects XI
Release 2 - New Features
User Group Participation
APOS BI Tools Suite
Custom Development
for Unique Requirements
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Sales of APOS BI Tools Set New Records
* More
customers, more solutions than ever
More customers than
ever are investing in APOS software solutions - for the last two
consecutive APOS business quarters, the sales of APOS BI Tools
reached all time highs.
"Since the 1999
launch of Instance Manager, our first APOS BI Tool, the APOS BI
Tools suite of solutions has steadily expanded to become the most
comprehensive in the industry.
We appreciate the
confidence that our customers place in our team and our solutions.
Our success is a
testament to the creative development and commitment exhibited by
our whole APOS team" . . . Dan Clements, President, APOS Systems.
Business Objects Announces APOS
Award
*Recognition
March 7, 2007
SAN JOSE, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Business Objects
(Nasdaq:BOBJ)(Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 - BOB), the
world’s leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions,
today announced its 2007 Americas Partner Excellence Award winners.
The Business Objects Partner Excellence Awards recognize Business
Objects partners for their tremendous contributions to deploying
solutions based on Business Objects technology, as well as for their
leadership, innovation, and commitment to helping companies reap the
business-transforming benefits of business intelligence. The awards
were formally presented at the annual Business Objects Americas
Partner Summit, held last week in Charleston, South Carolina.
“Business Objects has an unmatched
organization of global partners, which we rely on to bring specific
industry expertise, deployment experience, and a rich history of
developing innovative solutions for customers looking to leverage
the power of intelligent information,” said Janet Wood, senior vice
president of global partnerships and sales enablement at Business
Objects. “Each year, we recognize a select group of these companies
with our Partner Excellence Awards, which are presented to those
organizations that stand out among their peers for drive,
dedication, and thought-leadership in the business intelligence
industry.”
At the Partner Summit awards ceremony,
Business Objects honored top partner performers from the Americas in
a variety of categories, including:
Most Innovative Use of Technology:
Distinguishes the partner that leveraged or integrated Business
Objects technology with other applications in the most innovative
way to solve challenging customer requirements. This year’s award
went to APOS Systems for their outstanding efforts in creating an
Integration Kit that unites BusinessObjects XI Release 2 with ESRI,
the #1 GIS mapping software.
Visit here to review the complete
press release.
APOS BI
Tools Overview Webinar
*Learn more about current APOS solutions
Webcasts - Thurs, Apr 26 or Thurs, May 10
Join us
for one these
webcasts covering an overview of the APOS BI Tools
suite for the BusinessObjects XI platform.
The main purpose of these webinars is to
provide high level information to help you better assess the range
of current solutions available.
Learn how APOS BI Tools can help
you leverage and extend the value of your business intelligence
investment.
Date: Thursday, Apr 26, 2007
Time: 10 am PST, 1 pm EST, 6 pm GMT
Date: Thursday, May 10, 2007 
Time: 10 am PST, 1 pm EST, 6 pm GMT
Speakers:
Allan Pym, VP Sales - Eastern Region, APOS Systems Inc.
Warren Kobbeltvedt, VP Sales - Western Region, APOS Systems Inc.
Sharing
Special APOS BI Tools Reports
*Win
an iPod
Background
Many of our customers develop their own reports or customizations to
supplement our various APOS BI Tools. We'd like to encourage our
customers to share these reports or customizations with each other.
To support this approach, we're pleased to announce a new public
domain resource area on the APOS web site, becoming available soon.
The purpose of this resource area is to allow our customers using
APOS BI Tools to share some of their development with each other.
Contest Details
To launch this new initiative, you may be eligible for a free iPod
in return for sending us some of your work that you agree to share
with other APOS BI Tools customers. Consider entering the contest if
you are a current user of either of these APOS BI Tools and have
created some reports of your own:
KPI - metadata for
analysis - who's viewing which reports, license analysis,
server activity monitoring, etc
RealTime Monitor -
powerful SNMP
monitoring & control of servers, with alerts.
How to Win
All submitted reports will be judged for the 'most informative
and compelling report' between now and June 15, we'll announce the
winner in our July newsletter.
Make a Submission to Enter the Contest
To enter, simply email your sample reports to
reports@apos.com. All submitted entries will be made
available as public domain via our web site. Unless you
wish to be anonymous, we will include the contributor's name and
company name.
Please include a short
and long description for each report submitted.
For more information on the contest or the reports sharing program, please
send a note to us at
reports@apos.com.
Object Manager for BusinessObjects XI
Release 2
*Powerful new features added
Object
Manager now includes a host of new features to add to its reputation
as the ultimate power tool for managing objects within
BusinessObjects XI!
Here's an
overview of recently added new features:
Performance
•
3 new search types in Object Manager's main filter for faster
object retrieval
•
"Location - Exact" search filter to bring back all objects in
the exact specified location without
bringing back objects that may exist in
child folders of the specified location,
resulting in dramatically faster location
searches
Object
Management
• 'Use options saved with report' and 'Create bookmarks from
group tree' are now supported
•
Group Maintenance and Retry Properties can now be maintained
•
reschedule all recurring instances for the selected reports
from the database logon screen
•
query 'Owners' of instances - search for multiple owners
using a comma-delimited list of user names
Preferences
Management
•
displays all three preference strings for the desktop,
WebIntelligence and
Desktop Intelligence
settings
•
'Log user off when browser closes' option of InfoView support
•
'Interactive Viewer' for WebIntelligence settings support
User Maintenance
• Desktop Intelligence and WebIntelligence settings can now be
edited on the Advanced Role options security screen
•
when exporting users to XML the id's and names of the groups the
user are now exported
Report Promotion
• promote a single item to the same enterprise location
multiple times creating multiple copies
• parameter values will now be promoted with report
objects when promoting from one CMS to
another
• when exporting the user list using XML the group name
will also be exported as well as the group
id
• support for promoting
WebIntelligence
& Desktop Intelligence objects from a folder
to a CMS
• support for promoting
WebIntelligence
&
Desktop Intelligence
objects from one CMS to another
• ability to use the Report Title during promotion
rather than the file name
Visit here
to view more information about Object
Manager.
To check
out how Object Manager can help your organization,
please
visit here
to request demo download instructions and
our current price list.
User Group
Participation *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 us at
apos@apos.com.
We're scheduled to participate
in these user groups in the near future:
•
April 13 - Crystal Developers User Group, Vancouver, BC
• May 21-25 - Berlin, Germany, European Business
Objects User Conference
• June
18-22 - San Diego,
California, ESRI International User Conference
• October 15-18 -
Orlando,
Florida, North America Business
Objects User Conference
• October
28-30 -
Sydney, Australia, AsiaPac 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
Distribution
Server
- powerful
post processing capabilities, zip support, password security and
more
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 . .
.
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 . .
.
Dynamic
Parameters -
SQL-based, user-specific pick lists, cascading
parameters
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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