Monday, December 8, 2025
Customer Success -APOS Publisher for Cloud - Hörmann Verkaufsgesellschaft
High-performance bursting of personalized SAP Analytics Cloud reports
Hörmannis a family business and Europe's leading supplier of doors. Since its foundation in 1935, Hörmann has produced and delivered more than 20 million doors worldwide. Over 6,000 employees work in over 40 specialised factories in Europe, North America and Asia to develop and produce high-quality doors, frames and operators, as well as perimeter protection and storage space systems, for use in private and commercial properties. The headquarters of the globally active Hörmann Group is located in the East Westphalian municipality of Steinhagen, near Bielefeld, Germany. This family business, now run by the fourth generation, recently recorded an annual turnover of more than 1 billion euros.
As a family-owned, pan-European distributor, Aqipa collaborates with brands like GoPro, Marshall, JBL, Pure, and JLAB. The company offers a comprehensive range of services across the value chain, which includes warehousing, account management, merchandising, channel marketing and e-commerce solutions with a focus on the B2B sector while also addressing B2C clients.
Today, the Hörmann Group is managed by the fourth generation, the great-grandsons of company founder August Hörmann, and is Europe's leading supplier of doors. The personally liable partners are Martin J. Hörmann and Christoph Hörmann.
Landscape & Core Challenge
Hörmann KG Verkaufsgesellschaft has been a long-time SAP customer and has been using APOS for several years. They started with using APOS Publisher with SAP BusinessObjects and SAP BW 7.5 to generate and distribute personalized reports in PDF format for their global operations. New reports are built in SAP BW/4HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud. However, they discovered that SAP Analytics Cloud's Publications capabilities were not flexible enough to meet their needs.
Problem: SAP Analytics Cloud Publications did not meet their needs for volume, personalization and timeliness.
Without enhanced broadcasting capabilities, they could not meet their enterprise service level expectations.
Requirements
- Report personalization
- High-performance bursting
- PDF generation and bursting from SAP Analytics Cloud reports
Report Consolidation Barriers
SAP Analytics Cloud Publications limitations:
- Personalization using bookmarks is time consuming
- Timely delivery of reports is uncertain due to low priority of publications within SAC processes
- No support for report consolidation
Outcomes
APOS Publisher for Cloud delivered:
- Timely, high-performance broadcasting
- Personalized broadcasting using variables and filters organized in simple databases which are easy to maintain
- PDF and Excel bursting
- Consolidation of multiple reports in a single report
"With APOS, we are able to automatically broadcast our reports to different users with different filters on a regular base."
Marlene Knigge, BI Team Lead
"APOS allows us to enable key-users to maintain the list of recipients themselves."
Sandra Schneemann, SAC and SAP BW consultant