APOS Storage Center - Backup, Archive,
Selective Restore
APOS Storage Center automates the backup, archive and selective restore functions in your SAP BusinessObjects deployment. It helps you:
- Manage the document lifecycle through rules-based backup, archive, versioning and selective
restore functionality.
- Safeguard data privacy through selective restore.
- Achieve regulatory compliance by maintaining "document-of-record" integrity throughout the
backup,
archive, restore, and migration processes.
- Improve system performance by removing or limiting access to archived documents.
APOS Storage Center Architecture
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APOS Storage Center features:
- Rules-based backup, archive, versioning, selective restore
- Offline and online archiving
- Extract and export
- Intelligent report purging
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SAP BusinessObjects Online and Offline Backup & Archive
APOS Storage Center is a full-client solution that provides comprehensive, rules-based, backup and archive functionality for SAP BusinessObjects. You can use Storage Center in online mode, offline mode, or both to balance disk space, performance and audit requirements.
Note: The difference between backup and archive services is that archive removes the instance, while backup simply copies the instance and leaves the original in place.
SAP BusinessObjects Selective Restore
Whether you archive online or offline, you can restore individual document instances to a location of your choice. This feature is extremely useful when selected "documents of record" must be provided for audit in accordance with legislated or internal requirements. You can comply quickly while ensuring data privacy by restoring only the documents in question to a controlled location.
Web Intelligence Report Versioning
If your organization makes extensive use of Web Intelligence reports, you know that their convenience for users leads to some administrative inconvenience.
Formal report development goes through development, QA, and production cycles. If you lose a report object, you can easily restore it from an earlier development or QA cycle. However, Web Intelligence reports are by their nature ad hoc: they are designed and built by users. APOS Storage Center gives you the ability to back up report versions, ensuring reporting continuity. Because archived reports can be written to numerous formats that do not depend on original data sources, you can guard the "document-of-record" status of reports.
Intelligent Purge
Because Web Intelligence reports are user-generated, report instances tend to proliferate. Storage Center's archive capabilities also allow you to purge instances with confidence to improve system organization and performance.
APOS Storage Center and Preventive BI
APOS Storage Center is your electronic vault for SAP BusinessObjects document instances. Its backup, archive and selective restore capabilities make it invaluable to organizations concerned with the integrity of their document instances. The proactive use of Storage Center is a preventive BI best practice for the prevention of problems and the timely resolution of issues.
This solution should be a key ingredient in any SAP BusinessObjects disaster recovery plan, and its extract and export features make it an essential tool for partial or complete migration of instances between BusinessObjects deployments.