December, 2005

 

In This Issue:

RealTime Monitor - New Product Announcement

APOS BI Tools for BusinessObjects XI Release 2

Price Change on APOS BI Tools

BusinessObjects XI Release 2 Web Seminar

APOS Customer Advisory Council

User Groups Participation

Business Objects International User Conference - Report

APOS BI Tools Suite

Custom Development for Unique Requirements

RealTime Monitor for BusinessObjects XI and Crystal Enterprise *Cool new APOS BI Tool

RealTime Monitor, the newest member of the APOS BI Tools suite, is now available in Beta. With this cool new tool, APOS delivers powerful SNMP alerting, monitoring and control of all servers.

Here are just a few examples of 'Alerting' that our customers are asking for, now available with RealTime Monitor:

• Email me if the time to view reports on the system deteriorates

• Page me if any of the server components goes offline

• Let me know if our job server, page server or cache server queues exceed a threshold

• Issue an alert if system login time exceeds a threshold

• Write an event log error message for any alerts generated

• Issue SNMP alerts that our operations management system will pick up

• Write an event log error message for any alerts generated

... there's a lot more ... check it out!

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

RealTime Monitor is now available as a Beta product, to check it out, please contact us.

APOS BI Tools for BusinessObjects XI Release 2 *Development update

With BusinessObjects XI Release 2 now released to manufacturing, we plan to start a beta program with our customers in Q1 2006.

BusinessObjects XI Release 2 provides substantial functional improvements and innovations across the BusinessObjects XI platform and includes 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.

If you're interested in our beta program for APOS BI Tools for BusinessObjects XI Release 2, please let us know.

Price Change on APOS BI Tools *January 1, 2006

Please note that effective January 1, 2006, prices for all of our APOS BI Tools will be increasing. Our new prices will reflect the current costs of development and support. As our product suite grows, we continue to strive for excellence in our solutions while assisting our customers maximize their business intelligence investment.

If you'd like a price quote now to make sure you qualify for current pricing before year-end, please contact us.

BusinessObjects XI Release 2 Web Seminar *Dec 7, 2005

Come see first-hand the latest capabilities of BusinessObjects XI Release 2, the industry's most advanced and complete business intelligence platform.

Learn how BusinessObjects XI Release 2 delivers significant enhancements across the entire product line and brings intuitive simplicity to your end users.

It provides future value by providing everything you need to consolidate your tools and standardize on a single business intelligence platform. Your entire organization will always have access to trusted information and a single version of the truth.

Sign up now for the BusinessObjects XI Release 2 web seminar on Wednesday December 7, 2005 at 11am PST, 1pm CST, 2pm EST REGISTER NOW!

APOS Customer Advisory Council *Providing advice and guidance

We're excited to announce a new initiative for 2006 . . . the APOS Customer Advisory Council.

We're thrilled that 15 of our key customers and supporters have already agreed to participate . . . for the purpose of sharing thoughts and gathering feedback on our business intelligence solutions.

APOS Customer Advisory Council . . .
 • comprised of approximately 15 key customers
 • meets via conference call 2 or 3 times a year
 • provided information on APOS plans and direction
 • members provide feedback on our plans
 • members provide advice and guidance for new initiatives
 • influences APOS BI Tools development and professional services priorities

We promise to listen and make our best efforts to use their suggestions and feedback to improve our products and services.

User Groups *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

Notes from Business Objects International User Conference *A Blast!

The Orlando User Conference was great! We enjoyed meeting a lot of old and new customers, select the picture at the right to see our booth.

The winner of our Zen Portable Media Center w/20 Gb Hard Drive draw is:

        Daniel Fields

      Zenith Insurance

Woodland Hills, California

       Enjoy it Daniel!

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

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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