Well Managed BI

The most effective processes in business are data-driven. That’s why it is important to put your Power BI Analytics insights into the hands of the people who will use them as data to drive their business processes. It’s also why you should consider using data-driven processes to distribute your Power BI reports in a timely and secure manner.

Bechtle AG was looking for ways to achieve secure reporting of financial controls and expanded communications to larger groups via daily emails. Their report distribution volume and frequency needs could not be met with the functionality provided by SAP Analytics Cloud Publications. See how APOS Publisher for Cloud met their scheduling and broadcasting needs.

Most of you will have heard the news already: Microsoft is ending support for Office 2016 as of October, 2025, and SAP will consequently sunset BEx Excel-based tools – BEx Analyzer, BEx Workbooks, and BEx Broadcaster. For your convenience, we have published a resources page to help you navigate the complexities of the BEx sunset and replacement of BEx workflows.

To manage an immense volume of data across their international operations, this bank uses SAP S/4HANA. They draw on Exasol data virtualization, in-memory technology and massively parallel processing to create a high-availability data environment for SAP Analytics Cloud, their analytics and visualization platform of choice. Problem: SAP Analytics Cloud does not support live data connectivity with Exasol.

The new SAP Analytics Business Intelligence Statement of Direction (SOD) has just been released. With more than 30 years of innovations, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform (SAP BusinessObjects BI) equips thousands of companies which reliably manage enterprise reporting use cases at scale. Our revised maintenance strategy guarantees Mainstream Maintenance until at least end of 2031 which secures your investments on the long run, whether you want to deploy on premise or in a private cloud.

APOS Publisher for Cloud is designed to overcome limitations inherent in SAP Analytics Cloud Publications. By design, SAP Analytics Cloud encourages “Pull” communications, in which users log in to view their reports and dashboards. While SAP Analytics Cloud Publications addresses basic SAC report scheduling & distribution needs, it is not suitable for “Push” communications, in which reports and dashboards are distributed, often in high volumes, and generally by email.

In April, SAP’s Steve Bickerton joined us for a webinar on SAP Analytics Cloud, and how APOS Publisher for Cloud helps his customers overcome limitations inherent in SAP Analytics Cloud Publications. He followed up on his webinar content with a post to the SAP Community Network.

SAP stopped investment in BEx Reports and BEx Broadcaster long ago, and the latest verion of Office supported by BEx is Office 2016. The deprecation of Office 2016 is another reason BEx users need to find an alternative solution.

United Pharmaceutical Distributors (UPD), a division of the Clicks Group, is South Africa’s leading full-line wholesaler to pharmacies, hospitals, dispensing doctors, health services and affiliated healthcare channels. The inability to schedule reports on a live data connection to SAP Datasphere, as well as volume limitations, greatly complicated the process of pushing timely reports out to recipients.

A private, not-for-profit healthcare network based in California and operating numerous facilities needed to convert their UNV universes to UNX and repoint their reports to the new universes, but they found that manual repointing and validation of reports is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to human error.

An administrative department within the executive branch of a US state government, responsible for corrections, including prisons and community supervision needed to automate the time- and labor-intensive process of repointing and testing their Web Intelligence reports.

APOS Publisher for Cloud’s new web-based user interface simplifies scheduling and broadcasting, allowing you to extend broadcasting capabilities to business users and other non-technical personnel. You do not need technical skills to schedule a bursting definition. Because it is a web-base UI, no server access is required, and there is no application to be installed. User authentication is achieved via the browser.

APOS Live Data Gateway now has the ability to consolidate live connections from multiple data sources into a single view for consumption in SAP Analytics Cloud, allowing SAP customers to extract value from multiple data sets.

A G7 federal government agency organizing the funding for scientific and technological research, supporting discovery and innovation, and working with universities, colleges, businesses and not-for-profit organizations to remove barriers and develop opportunities.

This company is the largest and most diversified Australasian marketer, wholesaler and distributor of healthcare, medical & pharmaceutical Products. The company was engaged in a business transformation project with migration to SAP S/4HANA, implementing SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud as their analytics and reporting solution.

A Europe-based global healthcare company deployed Snowflake Data Cloud to harmonize diverse data on a single platform for use with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and for general analytics reporting and visualizations. However, SAP Analytics Cloud does not support live data connectivity with Snowflake Data Cloud, and import connectivity was impractical because large quantities of data create performance and data latency issues in SAP Analytics Cloud.

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.