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The exciting news that APOS Publisher for Cloud now supports SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office report scheduling and broadcasting removes a significant barrier to SAP Analytics Cloud adoption. In a series of blog posts, we explore what these new capabilities mean for your organization.

Scheduling Analysis for Office reports is critical to ensuring that content has been refreshed in a timely manner to suit the needs of stakeholders. APOS Publisher for Cloud delivers an efficient scheduling environment that enables users to organize and execute the timely processing of their Analysis for Office reports, including time-based report scheduling with hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly report processing, as well as event-based and conditional report scheduling to meet tactical processing needs. Publisher for Cloud’s Web User Interface makes SAC story, SAC application, and AfO report scheduling very simple for all users.

Aqipa GmbH, an Austria-based company, specializes in the distribution and marketing of premium consumer electronics products and accessories, covering multiple categories, including audio, active lifestyle products, imaging and home electronics. They needed robust SAP Analytics Cloud broadcasting to externall stakeholders.

A global developer, manufacturer and distributor of mechatronic systems use APOS Publisher for Cloud for data-driven, timely, personalized SAP Analytics Cloud report broadcasting.

APOS Publisher for Cloud has been the solution of choice for many organizations seeking robust scheduling and broadcasting of SAP Analytics Cloud reports, and now APOS has extended these capabilities to SAP Analysis for Office reports. Organizations can now move their AfO reports to SAP Analytics Cloud, then schedule and broadcast them with Publisher for Cloud.

APOS Publisher for Cloud provides the means to centralize and unify your SAP Analytics Cloud stories, SAP Analytics Cloud applications, and SAP Analysis for Office reports, improving data governance and the reach of your analytics.

A European, Benelux -based, manufacturer and retailer specializing in shoes, clothing and accessories uses SAP Analytics Cloud as its Analytics platform. They needed a timely means of distributing personalized sales reports in PDF format to store management on a weekly basis. The timing of report delivery was critical for the organization’s scheduled sales meetings. Personalization was also critical: each store needed information specific to its previous week’s performance.

Legacy BI workflows can be moved to SAP Analytics Cloud, where they are complemented by new workflows for visualization, dashboards, planning and much more. One notable exception is report scheduling and broadcasting, for SAC stories and applications, and for Analysis for Office (AfO) reports. APOS Publisher for Cloud fills this gap.

A Europe-based provider of life science research and diagnostics solutions to allow scientists to explore and innovate at molecular, cellular and microscopic levels needed to establish a connection to an Azure SQL database to report on customer data retained there.

SALT Analytics is an APOS partner with deep expertise in modern SAP Data Warehouse and Analytics technologies. They help their customers to find and deploy the right strategy and technology to realize the full potential of their data and gain strategic insights for a competitive edge.

In a recent webinar, DataSense, APOS, and Need4Viz combined to provide a clear picture of the road ahead for SAP BusinessObjects, and what it means for organizations committing to following that road.

A Europe-based producer of baked goods and natural snacks marketed internationally under multiple brands, produced in numerous facilities across Europe, Africa and the Americas, with annual sales over €.5 billion needed live data connectivity between SAP Analytics Cloud and Microsoft Azure Analysis Services.

The IT systems division of a heavy equipment manufacturer and distributor provides information services to its dealer community, enabling that community to manage equipment lifecycles, and enabling the parent company’s finance and accounting services to analyze and report on a complete picture of enterprise transactions.

Whether you are advancing on your SAP Analytics Cloud journey, or revitalizing your SAP BusinessObjects deployment and committing to its future in BI 4.3 and BI 2025, there are on-demand webinars to help you see what’s possible and give you perspective on your plans.

The recently released (May 2024), updated SAP Analytics Business Intelligence Statement of Direction (SOD) gave SAP BusinessObjects enthusiasts much to cheer about, starting with an updated roadmap that shows support for the venerated BI platform continuing to the edge of the page and beyond.

Expertum is a Benelux-based consulting company that implements end-to-end SAP solutions to streamline workflows, simplfy processes, and empower their customers to achieve their business objectives. They provide services in the following categories: strategy, licenses, processes, environment, experts, support. Expertum works with its customers through roadmapping, prototyping, execution, and monitoring their SAP solutions.