Well Managed BI

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.

A large international retail bank, insurer and cooperative based in France needed to streamline their quarterly regulatory reporting workflow to ensure timely management of audit controls across regional and local branches. Data from their SAP Financial Consolidation module was essential to this effort, and they needed to replace time-consuming manual data consolidation processes by establishing live data connectivity between SAP Analytics Cloud and their SAP Financial Consolidation data in Microsoft SQL Server.

A “push” methodology places your Analytics in the path of people who need it to perform their duties. This methodology takes into account where your information consumers are, when they need the information you are supplying, and what format best suits how they need to use that information.

Automate UNX migration to UNX and repointing of Web Intelligence reports. View use cases showing how customers have used APOS Migrator for Web Intelligence to automate this process.

A leading provider of software, data and analytics for mortgage and home equity lending and loan servicing uses SAP BusinessObjects to schedule and send timely reports internally and to their nearly 2,000 customer financial institutions. They needed to find ways to automate and monitor report scheduling and take remedial action when necessary to ensure the timely and accurate flow of information to stakeholders.

For our purposes, the working definition of broadcasting in the context of SAP Analytics Cloud is “a data driven process for generation and delivery of report content that is customized for each targeted consumer.” This process is also often known as bursting.

Hunt LNG needed a publishing solution to push management information out on a scheduled basis to both SAC and non-SAC users, in the office and in the field, as well as to provide automation to ensure that immediate attention is given to critical operational data and events.

The Hörmann Group sends more than 1,000 Web Intelligence reports in different export formats and languages with actual sales figures to their locations and partners all over the world. They needed to reduce the manual effort and the volume of mail produced.

APOS Chief Technical Officer Ofir Gil recently sat down with SAPInsider’s Kumar Singh to discuss the importance of seamless data connections in analytics, the challenges organizations face in this area, and the imperative to invest in data connection gateways.

Digital transformations come in all shapes and sizes, but the one thing they all have in common is the need to expand and transform data connectivity. Analytics can be transformative, but only if analysts have access to all pertinent data sources. Download the whitepaper to learn how APOS Live Data Gateway opens up non-SAP data sources to SAP Analytics Cloud to create greater analytics opportunities.

APOS Insight is a comprehensive solution that gives you the knowledge you need for effective and efficient SAP BI system management, including detailed system metadata for thorough system auditing, system monitoring, query surveillance, and BI report testing.

A global leader in human and animal nutrition innovation and distribution with hundreds of facilities and tens of thousands of employees implemented SAP Analytics Cloud as part of their ongoing digital transformation, but needed additional connectivity to meet their analytics objectives.