Inside this issue: » Driving Efficient Management of BI Platform » Report Bursting: New Features, On-demand Webinar » Forrester Analyst Joins Webinar on Driving ROI in BI Platform » Realizing the Potential of Geographic Business Intelligence » Live Mapping in Dashboard Builder 3.1 » Practical Solution Webinars

APOS Solutions News - Maximizing Business Objects with APOS Solutions

April, 2009

In this issue:

Driving Efficient Management of BI Platform - New whitepaper on key trends impacting the execution and management of BI deployments available for download. Read more

Report Bursting: New Features, On-demand Webinar - Bursting Xcelsius documents, self-recovery mechanisms and more features just added to one of the products in our Publisher Solution, Bursting Manager. Read more

Driving Efficient Management of the BI Platform: Forrester Webinar - Special session with Forrester Research Analyst Boris Evelson discussing key considerations for BI platform managers; drive value, reduce TCO, and bring agility to SAP BusinessObjects deployments. Read more

Realizing the Potential of Geographic Business Intelligence - View this compelling webinar recorded by ESRI UK. Read more

Live Mapping in Dashboard Builder 3.1 - View this webinar on ESRI GIS Integration hosted by the SAP BusinessObjects Community. Read more

Practical Solution Webinars - 3 upcoming sessions you won't want to miss: "APOS Publisher - Bursting and Distribution for SAP BusinessObjects," "Driving Efficient Management of the BI Platform," and "APOS Solutions Overview." Read more


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Driving Efficient Management of the BI Platform | New White Paper!

This new white paper clarifies key value drivers and points of impact which APOS Solutions bring to SAP BusinessObjects deployments. Read about:

  • White Paper - Driving Efficient Management of the BI PlatformChallenges of BI adoption and utilization
  • Key trends impacting the execution and management of BI deployments
  • APOS Solutions for growing BI challenges
  • Impact of APOS Solutions on reducing the TCO of SAP BusinessObjects deployments

Request this white paper here.

For an in-depth discussion on driving value, reducing TCO, and bringing agility to SAP BusinessObjects deployments, join our special session with Forrester Research Analyst Boris Evelson discussing key considerations for BI platform managers: April 23 - register here.

Bursting Manager | New Features, On-Demand Webinar

Bursting Manager - new featuresBursting Manager is the powerful report bursting product in our Publisher Solution.

New features just added and coming soon include:

  • Support for emailing the viewer url in the notification email when a large bursting definition is burst
  • Burst Desktop Intelligence reports and have the selection formula applied to multiple tabs
  • Burst Xcelsius documents
  • Self-recovery mechanism - every burst will mark the items that were successfully bursted (or not); will be able to automatically schedule a rerun of the failed items, or allow for a manually scheduled rerun of the failed items

View a webinar on "Simple, Powerful Reporting Bursting with SAP BusinessObjects XI" here.

Try it out! Request an evaluation download to see how Bursting Manager can help your organization.

Driving Efficient Management of the BI Platform | Webinar Session with Forrester Research Analyst Boris Evelson

Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 8:00am PDT/11:00am EDT

Forrester Research Analyst Boris Evelson will join our webinar session to discuss key considerations for today's BI platform managers and bring focus to the critical importance of effective management of the BI platform and the delivery of BI content.

Agenda:

» Ever increasing importance of BI

» Complexity of BI applications

» BI best practices

» 80/20 BI rule

» Best practices for BI content management and delivery

Realizing the Potential of Geographic Business Intelligence | Recorded Webinar from ESRI UK

This webinar discussed how the integration of GIS (Geographical Information Systems) and BI applications are broadening and deepening the use of geographic information throughout an organization and why public sector organizations can't afford to ignore the added value that comes from using geography intelligently.

Realizing the Potential of Geographic Business Intelligence

View the webinar here. Learn more about the APOS Integration Kit for ESRI GIS here.

Live Mapping in Dashboard Builder 3.1 | Recorded Webinar from SAP BusinessObjects Community

Live Mapping in Dashboard Builder 3.1 | SAP BusinessObjects "How-To Half Hour" Webinar

APOS presented this webinar on integrating live mapping into SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Builder to enhance the analysis capabilities of your dashboard and improve the data representation to reveal new insights and solutions.

View this recorded webinar here.

Practical Solution Webinars | Upcoming Sessions

These are customer-facing webinars which you can invite customers to attend, or attend yourself to learn more about APOS Solutions:

APOS Solutions Overview
An overview of the APOS Solutions Suite for the SAP BusinessObjects XI platform. Learn how APOS Solutions can help leverage and maximize the SAP BusinessObjects XI platform. We will provide high level information to help better assess the range of current solutions available.
More detail and registration here.
Register for Upcoming Webinars

April 28

APOS Publisher - Bursting and Distribution for SAP BusinessObjects
This session will focus on how this APOS Solution will:
  • Handle all post processing needs
  • Burst reports in multiple ways to multiple destinations and in multiple formats
  • Consolidate multiple reports to a single document (i.e. PDF) with custom headers and table of contents or schedule individual reports to multiple destinations and formats using a single schedule

More detail and registration here.

Register for Upcoming Webinars

May 19, 20

Driving Efficient Management of the BI Platform
Special session with Forrester Research Analyst Boris Evelson discussing key considerations for BI platform managers; drive value, reduce TCO, and bring agility to SAP BusinessObjects deployments.
More detail and registration here.
Register for Upcoming Webinars

April 23

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