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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.

Britvic plc has embarked on a mission to consolidate data into a centralized Snowflake data lake to extend the value of internal data by complementing it with external data. They implemented SAP Analytics Cloud as their data visualization tool, but soon ran into performance issues with importing data from Snowflake into SAP Analytics Cloud.

A global provider of precision instruments and services for many applications in research and development, quality control, productions, logistics and retail. They needed precise control over their report distribution. In particular, the Sales and Marketing departments needed to replace 10,000+ report broadcasts served with SAP BusinessObjects Publications capabilities..

A division of a major African retail and wholesale group has hundreds of stores in multiple countries, and is a leader in the general merchandise, liquor, home improvement and wholesale food markets. Their challenge was to communicate timely information using SAC visualizations and reports to their network of store managers and executives for better, data-driven management. They found that the Publications capabilities of SAC made report broadcasting complex and time consuming.

APOS Data Gateway and SAP Analytics Cloud are integral parts of the IT landscape at Aspris. The combination of SAP Analytics Cloud, APOS Data Gateway, and Azure SQL is known internally at Aspris as “Aspris Insight,” and this combination is helping Aspris toward a culture of data literacy within the organization, leading to higher service levels for the young people in their care, better management of education, and greater accountability amongst their staff.

A multinational company at the forefront of aerospace innovation, including the design and manufacture of commercial aircraft, defence contracting and space engineering needed to schedule and execute emails with filtered SAC reports as automatically customized PDF files detailing performance metrics for all manufacturing and assembly facilities.

APOS Publisher for Cloud report broadcasting uses the “push” communications concept, which places information into the daily workflow of recipients in the format that is most useful to them.

Reporting is a critically important supply chain element for an intralogistics organization that optimizes material handling, warehousing, and material flow for its customers. Suppliers receive reports on expected inventory delivery timelines and locations.