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A recent APOS webinar revealed a number of customer success stories from different industries, each illustrating that you need not be intimidated by your upcoming UNV conversion project, regardless of its size. Here are some videos based on that webinar’s content.

SAP Analytics Cloud report broadcasting has become a hot topic. As organizations develop new capabilities and analytics strategies, they also need to communicate insights to larger audiences in a timely and secure manner. APOS Publisher for Cloud fills this need.

Broadcasting, also known as bursting, is the amplification of your Analytics content to a defined set of recipients who have specific needs and preferences concerning the timing, location, content and formatting of reports. Here is the process in a nutshell.

How do APOS solutions complement and extend SAP Analytics Cloud capabilities for the Intelligent Enterprise? That was SAP podcaster Malavikha’s question for APOS COO Allan Pym in this recent podcast.

APOS Publisher for Cloud lets you get the right information to the right people at the right time and in the right format with push distribution, dynamic flexibility, personalized distribution, strategic timing, tailored messaging, and tailored destinations.

SAP’s redefined roadmap is bringing renewed attention and enthusiasm for the road ahead for SAP BusinessObjects deployments. Organizations are regrouping – refreshing their plans and repositioning for continued and expanded BI value from existing BI assets. In this whitepaper, we present a roadmap for embracing the future of SAP BusinessObjects, taking you through the steps that will lead you to a future-proof deployment.

APOS Live Data Gateway has been a key piece for many of our customers seeking to establish a scalable, flexible architecture for data management, access, governance, and security as described by James Kobielus in his State of Analytics report, which leverages TDWI’s analytics maturity model. APOS Live Data Gateway expands, simplifies and unifies data connectivity for SAP environments and other analytics landscapes to leverage the important benefits of live data connectivity.

Aspris’s digital transformation has taken them from static Web Intelligence reports with SAP BusinessObjects to real-time dashboards with SAP Analytics Cloud, combining 21 SaaS business applications plus core MIS operational systems, a Databricks ETL to Azure SQL warehouse, and an SAP Analytics Cloud front end.

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.