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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.

A leading supplier of specialty minerals for industry deployed SAP Analytics Cloud as their analytics platform, but needed additional live data connectivity and drill-down capabilities for their Redshift Cloud data warehouse, which consolidates financial and billing data. Their deployment also included Amazon Athena’s interactive query service and Amazon S3 storage. Their goal was to streamline their financial workflows and create more responsive billing processes.

As organizations move forward with their analytics plans, they face the need for governed connectivity to numerous data sources from numerous data source vendors. Through our interactions with these organizations, we have formed a pretty good understanding of their governance concerns and challenges, and APOS Live Data Gateway is designed to address those concerns and meet those challenges.

APOS Export Data Gateway is designed to meet strategic requirements for data extracts from a data source, which are then saved to a static file (CSV) and distributed to a targeted location or user.

A leading, highly diversified, agricultural sciences manufacturer has been using BEx Broadcaster with SAP BW to keep its large network of customers, partners and resellers informed. The company planned to move their SAP BW deployment to SAP BW/4HANA, and needed to replicate BEx broadcasting capabilities on the new platform.

We recently published a post to the SAP Community site discussing the role of non-SAP data assets in SAP analytics in particular and digital transformations in general. The point of the post was to highlight the importance of non-SAP data assets in BI and analytics, and how these assets need to be considered in every organization’s digital transformation.

APOS has been an active member of the SAP partner ecosystem for a couple of decades now, and we have helped many organizations achieve their strategic and tactical BI and analytics objectives over that time. The SAP partner ecosystem continues to play a vital role in the digital transformation of many SAP customer organizations.