Well Managed BI

Converting UNV universes to UNX and repointing Web Intelligence is a large IT project for organizations with 10s and 100s of throusands of reports. Automating UNX adoption gives such organizations the opportunity to complete a timely and ordered transition to UNX while managing their content and resources and avoiding disruptions.

Data security continues to be the highest priority for organizations, but tighter security is generally accompanied by higher administration costs for IT and BI teams. A major US university recently revised its security policies to increase the frequency with which database passwords must be changed. For the BI team, this change meant that they needed to make changes to thousands of SAP BusinessObjects reports, instances and schedules frequently, creating an untenable manual process that ate into its available resources.

With the new APOS Publisher for Cloud Enterprise Edition, multiple departments and groups can now collaborate and share data on a centralized and secure enterprise system and achieve the same personalized, tailored and targeted SAP Analytics Cloud broadcasting capabilities.

BTP CTO Iver van der Zand’s recent TechTalk, posted to the SAP Community blog, provides a very clear and concise vision of the path forward for the SAP Community and for organizations using SAP Analytics in particular. BTP draws together the resources and capabilities such organizations need to formulate a comprehensive Analytics strategy and roadmap for digital transformation.

Snowflake’s David Richert reacts to APOS Live Data Gateway returning SAP Analytics Cloud query against a 288 billion row Snowflake table in under 2 seconds.

In a recent webinar, we discussed the steps organizations should take to prepare their SAP BusinessObjects environments are ready for their next steps into the future of BI and Analytics. Here we present three videos based on that webinar’s content.

In a recent webinar, we discussed the steps organizations should take to prepare their SAP BusinessObjects environments are ready for their next steps into the future of BI and Analytics. Here we present three videos based on that webinar’s content.

BI 2024, the newly announced continuation of on-premise SAP BusinessObjects, is exactly what many organizations were hoping and lobbying for. If your organization is committed to maintaining your on-premise BI, then now is the time to start considering your upgrade path.

A major European company involved in automotive import, distribution, leasing and fleet management services needed timely distribution of SAP Analytics Cloud report content to key business stakeholders. Their information requirements included monthly distribution of reports to internal business users and externally to their partner network.

APOS Publisher for Cloud has become the go-to solution for SAP Analytics Cloud customers looking to expand the reach of their analytics through publishing and broadcasting, much as APOS Publisher has filled that role for SAP BusinessObjects customers. Both solutions feature personalized data, targeted distribution, strategic timing, tailored formats, and dynamic flexibility.

In a recent white paper in their TDWI Solution Landscape series, Enterprise Data Governance, author James Kobielus lays out the data governance difficulties faced by organizations re-imagining their IT infrastructure in the Cloud. We look at how APOS solutions for cloud-based analytics platforms stack up against the metrics and functions established by Kobielus.

TDWI data management maturity and analytics maturity models identify trends and place heavy emphasis on establishing sound data architecture and data governance. APOS Live Data Gateway's data virtualization and self-service modelling capabilities can help organizations meet many of their data management and analytics challenges.

A global, church-based, charity confederation working to alleviate hunger and poverty uses SAP Analytics Cloud to report on internal cost allocations to controllers, managers and directors. They needed to expand their analytics with access to SAP Finance and Controlling (FICO) data located in Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SSAS. They were looking for high-performance, live data connectivity that would give their reports rapid drill-down capabilities into line items.

Using live data analytics, you can examine the current state of your enterprise data at any time, regardless of where that data is stored. APOS Live Data Gateway provides virtualized data connectivity to connect SAP Analytics Cloud and other analytics solutions to relational and OLAP, cloud-based or on-premise data assets, and even application-based data sources such as SAP Ariba.

A Europe-based food ingredient manufacturer doing nearly €1 billion in annual sales deployed SAP Analytics Cloud with data from SAP BW/4HANA, but needed to expand live data connectivity for SAP Analytics Cloud to Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (MSAS) and Microsoft SQL Server. These expanded data connectivity needs focused on important data related to sales statistics, as well as customer incident tracking data, to be used for sales, operational, and executive steering committee management needs.

A major electronics manufacturer and software developer planned to move their SAP BusinessObjects data source from a legacy system to Snowflake Data Warehouse Cloud. Like other organizations attempting similar migrations, they found UNV compatibility issues.

While the ability to push content in this manner is extremely important, there are other fundamental requirements for broadcasting, bursting and publishing, including formats, destinations, filtering and scheduling.