Well Managed BI
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Setting up SAP BI security for a new deployment is relatively straightforward. If you keep some important principles in mind, and understand fully the impact of each decision, your defined security model should be adequate to the task.
As vendors within the SAP partner ecosphere, we don't have to choose between SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BusinessObjects. But then again, neither do SAP's customers, because, for the foreseeable future, both are available, compatible, and able to run in parallel.
APOS Administrator is one of our core solutions. It provides the help you need for most of your daily SAP BI administrative needs, as well as your major initiatives, including:
Thursday, February 7, 2019
APOS well managed BI solutions provide intelligent alternatives that unleash the power of your BI, Analytics, and Hybrid BI deployments, while simplifying platform management, maintenance, and administration.
If you are introducing SAP Analytics Cloud, you will need to make some very important decisions about data connectivity.
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
APOS Storage Center is your electronic vault for SAP BI report objects and instances, and all other system objects (e. g. , universes, connections, calendars) that need safeguarding.
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Unlock live data with the APOS Live Data Gateway.
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Flexible, Automated Bursting & Distribution for SAP Analytics Cloud
You may congratulate yourself if you regularly anticipate administrative bottlenecks and make resources available to resolve issues before they affect your service level agreements. You're being proactive, and that's good as far as it goes, but you're not necessarily being progressive.
Compliance with the EU's new General Data Proctection Regulation (GDPR) continues to be on the minds of many as we get ever closer to the May 25, 2018, deadline.
Under the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the inspection, protection and retention of the personal data of EU data subjects are the responsibilities of the organizations that control and process that data. In practical terms, a large part of that responsibility falls on the BI team, because the BI system touches on, and processes data from, a large proportion of the enterprise's data sources.
If you're preparing for compliance with the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into full force on May 25 of this year, the first thing you need to focus on is the rights of data subjects, because those rights are at the core of the legislation. Here is a fairly detailed, though not exhaustive description of the rights of data subjects under the GDPR. Data subjects have the right:
Friday, November 17, 2017
Based in Minneapolis MN, Allina Health cares for patients from beginning to end-of-life through its 90+ clinics, 12 hospitals, 15 pharmacies, specialty care centers and specialty medical services that provide home care, senior transitions, hospice care, home oxygen and medical equipment, and emergency medical transportation services.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
There are a number of common motivators driving healthcare organizations to establish proactive BI system storage strategies. Motivators can be legislative or corporate, or based on the need to maintain information availability, reliability, and consistency with (usually) limited BI administrative resources.
Is the Internet a public utility? Do providers have a responsibility to treat their customers' content equally? Should healthcare Internet traffic have priority over other Internet traffic?
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Back in April, 2014, the FBI issued a Private Industry Notification (PIN) warning the healthcare sector that its vulnerability to attack remains high, primarily because it is a lucrative target for criminals. Why are healthcare data breaches so lucrative?A Reuters report on the FBI PIN indicates numerous reasons:
Forrester's Nick Hayes recently posted a summary of a new Forrester report, Dissecting Global Risk Perceptions and the Effects of Customer Obsession. In his summary, he writes of a shift in the perception of governance, risk management, and compliance that is occurring in "customer-obsessed" organizations -- organizations that take the need to improve customer experience seriously.
The latest update to APOS Storage Center for SAP BusinessObjects 4. 1 includes some great new features and improvements. For example, you can now use the familiar SAP LCMBIAR file technology to back up your standard, system and application objects. You also have the option to include object level security in your LCMBIAR backups. However, unlike the standard SAP LCMBIAR method, the APOS Storage Center LCMBIAR backup method allows you to restore objects selectively. It also overcomes any volum...