Well Managed BI

In a recent webinar, we discussed the steps organizations should take to prepare their SAP BusinessObjects environments are ready for their next steps into the future of BI and Analytics. Here we present three videos based on that webinar’s content.

BI 2024, the newly announced continuation of on-premise SAP BusinessObjects, is exactly what many organizations were hoping and lobbying for. If your organization is committed to maintaining your on-premise BI, then now is the time to start considering your upgrade path.

A major European company involved in automotive import, distribution, leasing and fleet management services needed timely distribution of SAP Analytics Cloud report content to key business stakeholders. Their information requirements included monthly distribution of reports to internal business users and externally to their partner network.

APOS Publisher for Cloud has become the go-to solution for SAP Analytics Cloud customers looking to expand the reach of their analytics through publishing and broadcasting, much as APOS Publisher has filled that role for SAP BusinessObjects customers. Both solutions feature personalized data, targeted distribution, strategic timing, tailored formats, and dynamic flexibility.

In a recent white paper in their TDWI Solution Landscape series, Enterprise Data Governance, author James Kobielus lays out the data governance difficulties faced by organizations re-imagining their IT infrastructure in the Cloud. We look at how APOS solutions for cloud-based analytics platforms stack up against the metrics and functions established by Kobielus.

TDWI data management maturity and analytics maturity models identify trends and place heavy emphasis on establishing sound data architecture and data governance. APOS Live Data Gateway's data virtualization and self-service modelling capabilities can help organizations meet many of their data management and analytics challenges.

A global, church-based, charity confederation working to alleviate hunger and poverty uses SAP Analytics Cloud to report on internal cost allocations to controllers, managers and directors. They needed to expand their analytics with access to SAP Finance and Controlling (FICO) data located in Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SSAS. They were looking for high-performance, live data connectivity that would give their reports rapid drill-down capabilities into line items.

Using live data analytics, you can examine the current state of your enterprise data at any time, regardless of where that data is stored. APOS Live Data Gateway provides virtualized data connectivity to connect SAP Analytics Cloud and other analytics solutions to relational and OLAP, cloud-based or on-premise data assets, and even application-based data sources such as SAP Ariba.

A Europe-based food ingredient manufacturer doing nearly €1 billion in annual sales deployed SAP Analytics Cloud with data from SAP BW/4HANA, but needed to expand live data connectivity for SAP Analytics Cloud to Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (MSAS) and Microsoft SQL Server. These expanded data connectivity needs focused on important data related to sales statistics, as well as customer incident tracking data, to be used for sales, operational, and executive steering committee management needs.

A major electronics manufacturer and software developer planned to move their SAP BusinessObjects data source from a legacy system to Snowflake Data Warehouse Cloud. Like other organizations attempting similar migrations, they found UNV compatibility issues.

While the ability to push content in this manner is extremely important, there are other fundamental requirements for broadcasting, bursting and publishing, including formats, destinations, filtering and scheduling.

A large international retail bank, insurer and cooperative based in France needed to streamline their quarterly regulatory reporting workflow to ensure timely management of audit controls across regional and local branches. Data from their SAP Financial Consolidation module was essential to this effort, and they needed to replace time-consuming manual data consolidation processes by establishing live data connectivity between SAP Analytics Cloud and their SAP Financial Consolidation data in Microsoft SQL Server.

A “push” methodology places your Analytics in the path of people who need it to perform their duties. This methodology takes into account where your information consumers are, when they need the information you are supplying, and what format best suits how they need to use that information.

Automate UNX migration to UNX and repointing of Web Intelligence reports. View use cases showing how customers have used APOS Migrator for Web Intelligence to automate this process.

A leading provider of software, data and analytics for mortgage and home equity lending and loan servicing uses SAP BusinessObjects to schedule and send timely reports internally and to their nearly 2,000 customer financial institutions. They needed to find ways to automate and monitor report scheduling and take remedial action when necessary to ensure the timely and accurate flow of information to stakeholders.

For our purposes, the working definition of broadcasting in the context of SAP Analytics Cloud is “a data driven process for generation and delivery of report content that is customized for each targeted consumer.” This process is also often known as bursting.

Hunt LNG needed a publishing solution to push management information out on a scheduled basis to both SAC and non-SAC users, in the office and in the field, as well as to provide automation to ensure that immediate attention is given to critical operational data and events.