July, 2008
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SAP PartnerEdge | APOS is Now an SAP Software Solution Partner
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 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - June 13, 2008 - APOS Systems Inc. today announced that it joined SAP's PartnerEdge Partner Program as an SAP PartnerEdge Software Solution Partner.
- "We are pleased to further solidify our relationship with SAP. As a long-time Business Objects Technology Partner, we anticipate that this new partnership will help us extend our relationships with SAP and Business Objects clients, with our award-winning APOS BI Tools."
- Dan Clements, President and CEO, APOS Systems Inc.
View our recent Press Release for more details.
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From the Blogosphere... | David Taylor's "Missing Piece"
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- "Business Objects has many great partners, but probably none better than APOS. In January of this year, APOS was awarded the Business Objects Technology Partner of the Year Award for 2007. They have used the BusinessObjects SDK more extensively than any other BusinessObjects partner. They don't offer just one solution.
Their tools provide dozens of potential missing pieces that might fit your BI puzzle.
- My Favorite APOS Tools
- So what's so great about APOS? Well, here are my top 3 list favorite solutions..."
...View the entire blog entry here.
David Taylor is a Business Objects Principal Sales Consultant, and has been with Business Objects for seven years. He contributed to Cindi Howson's book, BusinessObjects XI - The Complete Reference.
Report Bursting: The Holy Grail of BI | Mark Cooper, EMEA Technical Account Manager
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 The idea of report bursting has been around for many years but has not been a built-in feature of many enterprise reporting systems, and solutions are much sought after.
The most common example of a report bursting requirement is to run a large report once with an automated process sending filtered copies of the report to individual users. For example; a report is run daily for the Sales Manager which details profit and loss for a number of cost centres.
Rather than schedule the report to run hundreds of times via multiple schedules a bursting solution will run the report once
and then use a set of defined rules to split the report by cost centre and make sure each cost centre manager receives a personalized copy of his report.
While this example is often cited, there are a plethora of options for extending this simple but necessary concept.
For customers implementing BusinessObjects Enterprise, APOS has consistently added value with their solutions to deliver just about every conceivable type of report burst.
Following are some of the popular features enabled by APOS report bursting solutions:
- Single and multi-pass to repository, email, and network file location
- Support for Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence or Crystal Reports
- Add view/edit passwords to DOC, XLS, or PDF output
- PDF output security - restrict editing, printing options and more
- ZIP (with password) multiple files (multiple versions of the same report in multiple formats) into one file or individual files
- Send email as content with text and html parts for better email client compatibility
- Report consolidation to PDF with security and encryption
- Consolidate all reports in a report package in XLS, DOC, RTF, or TXT format
- Generate an automatic email notification on successful or failed processing of the report package as a whole
See our new whitepaper on Report Bursting in BusinessObjects here.
For more information on our bursting solutions, please contact us or download full evaluation software here.
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APOS BI Tools Overview Webinar | Learn More About Current APOS Solutions
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WEBINAR - July 22nd, August 26th
Join us for an overview of the APOS BI Tools Suite for the BusinessObjects XI platform.
This webinar will provide high level information to help better assess the range of current solutions available. Learn how APOS BI Tools can help leverage and maximize the BusinessObjects XI platform.
- Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Time: 8am PDT, 11am EDT, 4pm BST
Speaker:
Allan Pym, Vice President, Business Development, APOS Systems Inc.
- Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Time: 8am PDT, 11am EDT, 4pm BST
Speaker:
Warren Kobbeltvedt, Vice President, Sales, APOS Systems Inc.
Register for this valuable webinar!
Integration Kit for Microsoft Outlook | Now Available in Japanese
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Our Integration Kit for Outlook XI 3.0 now supports Japanese, in addition to English, French, German, and Spanish. Our UI, server, and administration module has been translated to all of these languages, as well as our documentation and white paper.
This powerful solution will enable your Microsoft Office users to maximize your BusinessObjects investment. Right from Microsoft Outlook as their Business Objects XI portal, users can:
- access and view all authorized BusinessObjects folders and reports
- schedule reports while connected on-line to BusinessObjects XI
- schedule reports even while not connected to BusinessObjects XI
- view and analyze reports off-line - take reports with you for off-line analysis
- Webi, Deski, CR, Office, Xcelsius report formats are supported
- schedule or reschedule reports (with parameters)
- choose report output format
- request notification of scheduling success or failure
- request an email with the report instance
- automatically "refresh" their local Outlook BI data
- download instances and export in multiple formats
- choose to zip downloaded files - separately or together in one zip file - password protected
Integration Kit for Microsoft Outlook supports BusinessObjects XI, BusinessObjects EDGE, BusinessObjects Crystal Decisions and Crystal Reports Server. The APOS Integration Kit for Microsoft Outlook has been certified as a Microsoft 'Office Business Application' (OBA).
For detailed solution information, evaluation software, and online web demo, visit here.
Results from Our Migration Survey | Customer Comments
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We recently surveyed our customers regarding their current BusinessObjects systems and migration plans. We try to focus our development efforts to support our customers, and we always appreciate their responsiveness and input in letting us know their needs. Here are the survey results:
What BusinessObjects platform are you using today in production?
 BusinessObjects XI 3.0 - 0.9%
BusinessObjects XI R2 - 63.2%
BusinessObjects XI R1 - 10.3%
Crystal Enterprise V10 or prior - 21.4%
BusinessObjects 6.5 or prior - 4.2%
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When are you planning to migrate to a newer BusinessObjects platform version?
 Within 3 months - 12.4%
Within 6 months - 21.0%
Not until next year - 28.5%
No migration plans - 38.1%
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When you do migrate, to which BusinessObjects platform?
 BusinessObjects XI 3.0 - 62.8 %
BusinessObjects XI R2 - 12.4%
BusinessObjects XI R1 - 1.0%
Other - 4.8%
Undecided - 19.0%
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Add your voice to our survey here.
Business Objects and SAP Events | See Us There!
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 Reporting & Business Intelligence with SAP and Business Objects seminar in Chicago
July 21-23, 2008
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 San Francisco Bay Area Business Objects Crystal User Group (BABOCUG) Meeting
July 23, 2008
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 Kentucky Business Objects-Crystal User Group (KBOCUG) Meeting
July 25, 2008
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APOS BI Tools Suite | Maximize BusinessObjects XI
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Visit here to request evaluation software download instructions for our ever-growing suite of BI Tools.
Instance Administration and Scheduling . . .
Archive Manager - report instance archiving, with restore capability!
InfoScheduler - power batch scheduling from Microsoft Excel
Instance Manager - administrator power tool for managing instances
Instance Monitor - email notification of failed instances
System Management and Monitoring . . .
Object Manager - report promotion, object & security management
RealTime Monitor - powerful SNMP monitoring & control of servers, with alerts
KPI - metadata for analysis, who's viewing which reports, license analysis, server activity monitoring
RunTime Manager - set availability time windows for Job Servers, Page Servers, etc.
Enhanced Report Distribution . . .
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
Application Integration . . .
AddressBook Gateway - integrate Outlook/Exchange with ePortfolio/InfoView 'schedule to email'
Integration Kit for crystalreports.com - schedule Webi, Deski, Crystal Reports to crystalreports.com
Integration Kit for ESRI GIS - two-way integration between BusinessObjects and ESRI GIS
Integration Kit for Microsoft Outlook - connect to BusinessObjects XI from Outlook, offline report viewing
Row Level Security . . .
View Time Security - row level data security without C++ development
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