APOS Well Managed BI Solutions

The APOS suite of "well managed BI" solutions provides an integrated approach to BI platform management and location intelligence for SAP BusinessObjects. APOS solutions are built to automate, simplify, complement, enhance and extend the capabilities of your BI system.

APOS solutions are of two types:

BI Platform Management Solutions
Location Intelligence Solutions

You implement BI to optimize your business processes. You implement these APOS solutions to optimize your BI processes.

BI Platform Management Solutions

APOS Administrator

Agile BI Platform Management for SAP BusinessObjects

APOS Administrator provides administrative capabilities that automate, simplify, complement and enhance SAP BusinessObjects' document instance and object management and scheduling features:

Suitable for BI solution architects, BI platform managers, BI technicians and SAP BusinessObjects power users
Saves valuable administrative time by automating and streamlining tasks and reducing human error
Provides the agility and flexibility needed to meet the changing needs of enterprise information consumers

APOS Insight

System Monitoring and Auditing for SAP BusinessObjects

APOS Insight provides enhanced metadata management, system monitoring, and timely alerts, helping administrators and platform managers meet the business intelligence needs of information consumers across the enterprise. Insight's metadata management features complement SAP BusinessObjects' Audit and MDM applications by:

Providing both statistical and functional analysis of all SAP BusinessObjects services
Issuing threshold-driven alerts
Initiating automated remedial activities
Insight monitors and audits your SAP BusinessObjects services from outside, ensuring that such monitoring and auditing is not compromised by problems within the system.

Insight's auditing capabilities provides "slice in time" or snapshot view of what is happening in your system, showing you not just which reports have run, but the parameters used to run them, and provides valuable information about the integrity of your BI system.

APOS Intelligent Data Access Controller (IDAC)

Monitor, Manage and Audit BI Data Connectivity

The APOS Intelligent Data Access Controller (IDAC) lets you see who is doing what, where and when, and lets you interact remotely with these processes. The multi-threaded IDAC processes log BI query metadata to achieve tight monitoring and control of query processes between your BI system and numerous datasources.

Monitor and audit BI queries
Manage BI queries automatically and manually
Integrate with premium databases / data warehouses such as Teradata

The IDAC metadata monitoring solution provides actionable deep intelligence of system use.

APOS Storage Center

Archive & Selective Restore for SAP BusinessObjects

APOS Storage Center automates the archive and restore functions in your SAP BusinessObjects deployment, helping you to manage the document lifecycle, safeguard data privacy, and achieve regulatory compliance. It provides:

Automatic backup, selective restore, and versioning
Both online and offline storage capabilities, letting you balance disk space, performance and audit requirements
Extract and export features that simplify the migration of instances between BusinessObjects deployments
Storage Center should be a key ingredient in any BusinessObjects disaster recovery plan.

APOS Publisher

Bursting & Distribution for SAP BusinessObjects

APOS Publisher is a complete SAP BusinessObjects publishing solution for organizations with complex distribution requirements with multiple report format and destination types. APOS Publisher extends the capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects through:

Robust bursting management
Post-processing distribution service
Report package management
Report compression and encryption
Assured delivery

Publisher automates these tasks while providing personalized reporting to your information consumers.

SAP BusinessObjects platform managers and technicians value the flexibility and agility that Publisher's custom properties, flags and settings add to their scheduling, bursting and distribution efforts.

APOS Location Intelligence Solutions

APOS Location Intelligence Solution

Bi-directional integration between GIS and business intelligence

Location intelligence is the new wave of business intelligence, combining geospatial and tabular information to create a better understanding of the significance of both. The great benefit of location intelligence is that it communicates business intelligence effectively and efficiently, creating greater "speed to insight," allowing you to make quicker and more confident business decisions, and thus generating operational efficiencies and competitive advantage for your organization.

The APOS Location Intelligence Solution (APOS LIS) creates full bi-directional integration between Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Business Intelligence (BI) systems, enabling side-by-side comparison and "what-if" analysis from either side of the solution. Planners, analysts and marketers use LIS's data visualization capabilities to increase "speed to insight." LIS's industry-specific thematic mapping capabilities create competitive advantage by:

Enhancing communication of strategic and operational information
Providing faster "speed to insight"
Radically improving decision making at all levels

A variety of APOS LIS solutions are available, including Cloud-hosted and Teradata premium database configurations.

Well Managed BI Solution Whitepapers, Webinars, Demos

Download whitepapers, webinars and demos to see how the APOS suite of well managed BI solutions automate, simplify, complement, enhance and extend the BI platform management and information delivery capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects.

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White Paper: Well Managed BI: Managing Your BI Platform for ROI