Well Managed BI

The highly security-conscious information technology division of a large multinational manufacturer and distributor based in Europe wanted to adopt SAP Analytics Cloud to replace their legacy BI solution. They needed to enhance SAC’s Publications capabilities to deliver vendor scorecards to their external stakeholders in a precise format with timely and secure delivery. Reports needed to be filtered on multiple dimensions to ensure partners received information specific to their supplied goods and service level agreements.

Organizations achieving success in advanced analytics need a great depth and breadth of data to analyze, and the need for high-performance live data connectivity between their analytics platforms and data platforms. Many of our customers use APOS Live Data Gateway to connect SAP Analytics Cloud to Snowflake Cloud Data Platform.

A multinational construction equipment manufacturer adopted SAP Analytics Cloud as its Analytics solution and needed to expand live data connectivity beyond their SAP data assets to include data from Microsoft SQL Server, Google Analytics and Salesforce. This added connectivity was needed to create a more complete Analytics and Reporting platform, including a large rear-projection wall screen that is visible to many team members which displays corporate data, as well as sales and marketing data.

A US-based healthcare organization with close to 10,000 staff across hospitals and associated healthcare businesses uses SAP BusinessObjects in conjunction with an Epic EHR reporting system. They needed to find ways to manage SAP BusinessObjects changes efficiently at the object level while increasing flexibility and improving data governance.

A large, Europe-based retailer running multiple chains of retail stores had consolidated legacy financial data from decades of corporate activities and acquisitions in Snowflake Data Cloud. They needed their analysts to have access to this data in SAP Analytics Cloud to extract KPI and other comparative data to drive better business decisions moving forward.

Bristol, a European, Benelux -based 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 Euro Shoe Group’s scheduled sales meetings. Personalization was also critical: each store needed information specific to its previous week’s performance.

Recently, APOS Business Development Manager Jay Murdoch and APOS Solution Consulting Manager Alan Golding joined Mario Rosenfelder from our Austrian partner ConsultNetwork on a webinar to discuss APOS Live Data Gateway. While the webinar content was delivered primarily in English, Mario added a German introduction and presented himself as an excellent resource for our German-speaking customers and potential customers.

APOS COO Allan Pym recently sat down for a CData JOIN podcast to discuss innovations, trends and real-life case studies. CData is a leader in real-time data connectivity and an APOS partner supplying JDBC drivers for a variety of non-SAP data assets. APOS uses CData drivers in conjunction with its APOS Live Data Gateway solution.

In a recent TDWI blog post, “How a Semantic Layer Helps Your Data Teams,” David P. Mariani says “The semantic layer may be the key to making the self-service data revolution a reality for everyone.” We heartily agree.

One of the World’s largest providers of intralogistics goods and services such as material handling equipment, warehousing and material flow engineering services needed to automate scheduling of SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office (AO) monthly and weekly reports to hundreds of suppliers and thousands of internal technical staff. They wanted to replace their existing, internally developed, BEx Broadcaster-based publishing solution, which required continuous and labor-intensive maintenance.

Effective amplification of your Analytics insights requires an enterprise broadcasting strategy. Broadcasting effectively gets information to the right people, at the right time, and in the right format.

APOS Live Data Gateway provides the ability to expand consumption of your Datasphere, Data Warehouse Cloud and BW assets to Power BI through support for Power BI DirectQuery.

The SAP BTP Adoption Program Team recently hosted a presentation and panel on broadcasting for SAP Analytics Cloud. APOS Chief Operating Officer and APOS Solution Consulting Manager Alan Golding delivered the presentation on Enhanced Enterprise Report Broadcasting for SAP Analytics Cloud.

In a recent post, we showed use cases demonstrating How Live Connectivity Is Essential to Analytics Productivity. Data enables analysts to analyze, but their next challenge is communicating their insights to the right people at the right time and in the right format. APOS Publisher for Cloud makes this communication possible.

Western Kentucky University (WKU) uses SAP BusinessObjects as their reporting solution. They are currently running BI 4.2, but will upgrade shortly to BI 4.3. They were challenged by repetitive administrative tasks and change management as manual administration was time-consuming, labor-intensive and prone to human error.

A recent TDWI Executive Q&A on the State of Cloud Analytics notes the rising popularity of Cloud-based Analytics. It cites survey data that demonstrates customers see Cloud-based Analytics as more cost effective, providing faster time to value, easier to use, more functional, and having a democratizing effect on Analytics. However, there are two major limiting factors on the successful deployment of Cloud-based Analytics platforms.

APOS Live Data Gateway helps analysts across the spectrum of business and not-for-profit organizations who are using SAP Analytics Cloud to fulfill their Analytics missions by enabling the inclusion of data from all enterprise data assets in their Analytics. Enterprise data resides in numerous data assets, and APOS Live Data Gateway makes that data available where it resides. Data is live, and remains current, governed and secure.

SAP’s BTP Adoption Program Team recently hosted a presentation and panel on expanding live data connectivity for SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Datasphere. APOS Chief Operating Officer and APOS Solution Consulting Manager Alan Golding delivered the presentation on Expanded Live Connectivity for SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere with APOS Live Data Gateway.