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APOS Live Data Gateway Premium expands, simplifies, and unifies data connectivity and data consumption options for SAP Analytics Cloud and across the SAP solution landscape. With LIVE mode connection for SAP Analytics Cloud this middleware platform provides virtualized data connectivity which enables live-mode connectivity to data from strategic SAP applications, such as SAP Ariba, Concur, Fieldglass, SuccessFactors, and other Cloud applications or niche data sources.
Simplified self-service BI
A unified semantic layer removes the complexity of strategic SAP applications data structures, which enables easier report creation by a broader range of users
Pre-built analytics extractions
Live Data Gateway provides predefined SAP applications data extraction options for fast time to value
Optimized data access & processing
Minimize stress on the application system, while dramatically enhancing performance with optimized, efficient query responses for SAP Analytics Cloud and other consumers
Aggregate multiple application sources
Leverage data combined from multiple sources blended into a single broad, enriched, comprehensive business view of your SAP application data
Customizable analytics extractions
Expand on pre-built processes to customize data extractions using an interactive UI to explore SAP application data
Governed self-service BI
The unified semantic layer also enables controls over what SAP application data is exposed to report creators
This APOS solution was extremely easy to deploy, simplifying the process of connecting to Google BigQuery and our other data sources. We were also pleased with live data connecting using the APOS Live Data Gateway because it kept all data within the corporate firewall for an added level of security.
Sunil Kumar, SAP Enterprise Architect WR Grace
W.R. Grace established direct data connectivity in live mode to Oracle, SQL Server and Google BigQuery for more informed analytics - Read more
In today's data landscapes it is critical that there is strong processing performance for large and growing data environments including Cloud and Big Data platforms. Live Data Gateway has been designed to thrive with such scenarios. See how the APOS Live Data Gateway performs with large data sets in Snowflake (288 billion rows - 10TB data set) and Google BigQuery (196 million rows)
Data caching minimizes stress on endpoint API provider, while dramatically enhancing performance with optimized, efficient query responses for SAC and other consumers.
Frequent data caching updates allow current data access with no data acquisition limitations. Data as fresh as you want it.
View data combined from multiple sources into a single broad business view of your data.
In addition to the strategic SAP application connectivity, APOS Live Data Gateway Premium allows access to an extensive list of data. See the full list of over 150 supported data sources
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Expand and transform data connectivity to include all pertinent data sources in your Analytics.
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Leveraging data is an imperative, but we also know that it has its challenges, such as managing data from disparate sources.
SAPinsider's Kumar Singh describes the critical role of analytics in digital transformation.
94% of organizations need access to multiple data sources to support effective decision-making. Virtualized data connectivity is a timely, exciting solution.
The Data Virtualization layer of Live Data Gateway is the connection point into the many data sources that are supported - Cloud Data, Relational Data, OLAP Data, Hadoop Data, Applications (On-Premise and Cloud). All connectivity is managed through this single virtualized data connection point, meaning that no database drivers or other connections mechanisms are required by any consuming application or user environment, instead Live Data Gateway manages all of these connection details. The primary connection protocol is JDBC, however connection via OData, XMLA, JSON, REST, and API is also supported.
The Data Preparation Layer of Live Data Gateway enables important data transformation steps, and provides a simplified semantic layer for business users to easily navigate data and be shielded from the complexities of the underlying data structures. This semantic layer produces very strong benefits for both self-service analytics and self-service modelling.
Within the semantic layer, data views are created which define what data should be exposed, define measures and dimensions, manage data linking complexities, and rename data fields to meaningful business terms. With these data complexities managed centrally, the end users of the semantic layer can quickly and easily build reports and visualizations, all while the strong data control and governance mechanism is protecting against inappropriate data access.
Three types of data views can be utilized within the Data Preparation Layer:
The Data Consumption layer enables the communication of data requests into Live Data Gateway and the serving of the requested data. The simplified view into your data created in the data preparation layer allows for consumers to easily understand the data in business terms. Being able to consume data presented in business terms is a strong enabler of self-service. The semantic data of Live Data Gateway is served for consumption by SAP Analytics Cloud through the SAP Native protocol, but can also be consumed via OData, JDBC and ODBC.
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Some of the hundreds of organizations using APOS well managed BI solutions across the globe: