Well Managed BI

The Hörmann Group sends more than 1,000 Web Intelligence reports in different export formats and languages with actual sales figures to their locations and partners all over the world. They needed to reduce the manual effort and the volume of mail produced.

APOS Chief Technical Officer Ofir Gil recently sat down with SAPInsider’s Kumar Singh to discuss the importance of seamless data connections in analytics, the challenges organizations face in this area, and the imperative to invest in data connection gateways.

Digital transformations come in all shapes and sizes, but the one thing they all have in common is the need to expand and transform data connectivity. Analytics can be transformative, but only if analysts have access to all pertinent data sources. Download the whitepaper to learn how APOS Live Data Gateway opens up non-SAP data sources to SAP Analytics Cloud to create greater analytics opportunities.

APOS Insight is a comprehensive solution that gives you the knowledge you need for effective and efficient SAP BI system management, including detailed system metadata for thorough system auditing, system monitoring, query surveillance, and BI report testing.

A global leader in human and animal nutrition innovation and distribution with hundreds of facilities and tens of thousands of employees implemented SAP Analytics Cloud as part of their ongoing digital transformation, but needed additional connectivity to meet their analytics objectives.

A leading supplier of specialty minerals for industry deployed SAP Analytics Cloud as their analytics platform, but needed additional live data connectivity and drill-down capabilities for their Redshift Cloud data warehouse, which consolidates financial and billing data. Their deployment also included Amazon Athena’s interactive query service and Amazon S3 storage. Their goal was to streamline their financial workflows and create more responsive billing processes.

As organizations move forward with their analytics plans, they face the need for governed connectivity to numerous data sources from numerous data source vendors. Through our interactions with these organizations, we have formed a pretty good understanding of their governance concerns and challenges, and APOS Live Data Gateway is designed to address those concerns and meet those challenges.

APOS Export Data Gateway is designed to meet strategic requirements for data extracts from a data source, which are then saved to a static file (CSV) and distributed to a targeted location or user.

A leading, highly diversified, agricultural sciences manufacturer has been using BEx Broadcaster with SAP BW to keep its large network of customers, partners and resellers informed. The company planned to move their SAP BW deployment to SAP BW/4HANA, and needed to replicate BEx broadcasting capabilities on the new platform.

We recently published a post to the SAP Community site discussing the role of non-SAP data assets in SAP analytics in particular and digital transformations in general. The point of the post was to highlight the importance of non-SAP data assets in BI and analytics, and how these assets need to be considered in every organization’s digital transformation.

APOS has been an active member of the SAP partner ecosystem for a couple of decades now, and we have helped many organizations achieve their strategic and tactical BI and analytics objectives over that time. The SAP partner ecosystem continues to play a vital role in the digital transformation of many SAP customer organizations.

Our webinar series on simplifying your SAP BusinessObjects upgrade addressed the issue of ongoing quality assurance, and how you can use what you have learned in your upgrade preparation, execution and validation to improve that ongoing quality assurance.

All in all, this year’s statement of direction achieves an inspiring vision of the future, provides a clear path to that future, and minimizes the trepidation of those organizations that wish to tackle digital transformation at their own speed.

Typically, Analytics development processes are created in a separate environment, then migrated to the live, or production, environment. You can use APOS Live Data Gateway to create views on your data in your development, testing, or QA environment, and then migrate those views to your production environment.

If geospatial visualizations are a key ingredient in your analytics, then chances are that some or much of the data you need for these visualizations in SAP Analytics Cloud resides in non-SAP data sources.

We recently hosted a series of webinars on simplifying your SAP BusinessObjects upgrade. You can watch all of these webinars on demand.

A top-ranked global reinsurance organization was undertaking a multi-year finance transformation project, and one of their top priorities was to provide real-time financial reporting to stakeholders Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) data cubes.

SAP BusinessObjects systems have layers, and these layers must be restored in the proper sequence so that each new layer creates and maintains its relationships with the previously restored layers.