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SAP BusinessObjects Statement of Direction & Roadmap Update

Gregory Botticchio, Director, Analytics Product Management at SAP, presents a very important update regarding the roadmap plans and a new Statement of Direction for SAP BusinessObjects. This update will include important new plans for upcoming versions of SAP BusinessObjects for on-premise deployments, along with the latest information about the extension of official support timelines for SAP BusinessObjects on-premise deployments.

Key session topics:

SAP BusinessObjects version Roadmap Update (On-Premise deployments; Private Cloud Edition)
SAP BusinessObjects Product Support Update: Extension and updated timelines
SAP BusinessObjects Product Feature Update

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Impact Analysis for SAP BusinessObjects - Flashes of Insight

Impact analysis is a critical need for BI teams as BI systems and system content evolve rapidly. As data structure changes are being planned or implemented, it is important to know what BI content will be or has been affected by those changes. This is a common concern that creates challenges whenever database or semantic layer changes are made. These may be internally driven changes, or may result from externally driven changes in a third-party application (healthcare EHR systems, for example). Such data source changes can also affect financial reporting internal controls.

Learn how to:

Foresee and measure the impact of any data source changes with detailed metadata to record system content changes
Which reports and universes will be affected by database schema changes?
Which reports will be affected by modification of objects in universes
Foresee and measure the impact of environmental changes
Use impact analysis to achieve regulatory/internal control compliance and to accelerate EHR upgrades

…and more.

Latest Updates and News on SAP Analysis for Office

SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office (Analysis Office) and its flexible analytical capabilities continues to be a very popular tool for self-service analytics with many organizations and users, but what’s ahead for SAP Analysis Office users in this time of digital transformation? Many organizations are eager to address key questions to help them plan their analytics future. What are the latest SAP Analysis Office capabilities? What is the vision for SAP Analysis Office?

Join SAP’s Jeanne Bigonnet and the APOS team to learn about:

The latest SAP Analysis Office updates and the roadmap for its future

Assess the latest advancements for SAP Analysis Office
Understand SAP Analysis Office and its importance for you
Plan your next steps for SAP Analysis Office in your organization

How APOS technology can help you expand your use of SAP Analysis Office with:

Scheduling and distribution
Expanded formats and destinations

…and more.

APOS Live Data Gateway Solution Update - Expand Your Analytics Connectivity

This webinar looks at how APOS Live Data Gateway is providing this live data analytics connectivity for a wide range of assets, and how organizations are unlocking new analytics value with this platform.

What you will learn:

How to leverage non-SAP data assets from your

Cloud data environments, such as Snowflake, Google Big Query, AWS, and Azure
Relational sources such as SQL, Oracle and DB2
OLAP sources such as Azure Analysis Services and Essbase
Strategic applications

Latest updates and new capabilities of APOS Live Data Gateway, including:

Seamless security integration - SSO, OAuth
Self-service modelling
Geo spatial support, dimensions and hierarchies
Power BI connectivity to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

…and more.

Expanded Bursting and Broadcasting for SAP Analytics Cloud Reports

This session looks at the need to implement enterprise-level bursting, broadcasting, publishing and distribution requirements is driving adoption of APOS Publisher for Cloud. Here’s your chance to see how this can work for you.

Enterprise-level bursting
Use dynamic rules, conditional bursting, expanded destinations and formats
Dynamic and low maintenance broadcasting
Scheduling, consolidation, query-driven, and reduced IT burden
BEx / BW broadcasting
Work with Analysis Office; replace BEx / BW broadcasting

...and more.

SAP BusinessObjects Query Management and Governance

This session examines the topics of report query management and governance for SAP BusinessObjects, and continues our “Flashes of Insight” webinar series. In this session, see how APOS Insight can help you:

Gain visibility into the performance of your BI queries
Manage and automate controls over long-running queries
Audit the details of your BI queries, and understand who is executing the queries
Track the usage of sensitive data
Fulfill all the points above without reliance on your DBA team

Live Data Analytics – Unlock New Value and Insight

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.

This session discusses:

Why do so many organizations prefer live data connectivity?
How does live data access deliver expanded value?
How can you leverage live data from non-SAP sources with SAP Analytics Cloud?
How can both self-service and governance be achieved with live data connectivity?

…and more.

Roadmap for BI Success: The latest on SAP BI 4.3 & Private Cloud Edition (PCE)

SAP's Eric Fenollosa joined APOS to focus on the latest innovations in the SAP BI roadmap, to help you:

Assess the latest advancements for SAP BusinessObjects version 4.3
Understand the Private Cloud Edition and its importance for you
Plan your next steps for effective adoption

… and more

Automated Report Testing for SAP BusinessObjects - Flashes of Insight

Content validation is a necessary step in the implementation of new versions and SPs of SAP BusinessObjects. Automated report testing ensures your reports stay the same through environmental changes (database, universe, operating system/software upgrades), compliance, upgrade testing, and day to day testing, while eliminating much of the drudgery of this part of the process.

We discuss:

Regression Testing
Upgrade/Migration Testing
Report Modification Governance

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Fast Forward Your BI: Automate WebI UNX Migration for Database Upgrades & More

Many SAP BusinessObjects customers are making the transition away from UNV universes to UNX universes.

What they are discovering is that, as data platforms advance, they may no longer support older BusinessObjects features such as UNV universes. For these organizations, whether small, medium or large, the challenge is multi-faceted: they need to upgrade their data platforms, but must also upgrade their universes and repoint their Web Intelligence reports to the new UNX universes.

In some cases, these conversion projects are deemed too time-consuming and labor-intensive to be performed manually, and these organizations need to find a way to automate the conversion and repointing efforts.

This webinar examines several use cases in which SAP BusinessObjects customers used APOS Migrator for Web Intelligence to convert their UNV universes and repoint their Web Intelligence reports.

We discuss:

Data platform support for SAP BusinessObjects
Simplified conversion of UNV universes to UNX universes
High-volume, high-speed, controlled repointing of Web Intelligence reports
Factors affecting your upgrade decisions

…and much more.

Usage Analysis for SAP BusinessObjects - Flashes of Insight

Understanding system usage is key to BI system planning as well as day-to-day operational prioritization. APOS Insight establishes a deep and rich BI system metadata repository that allows you to analyze user activity, information consumption patterns, and license and session activity.

In this webinar, we discuss:

Report usage
User activity/License usage
Hardware/Server utilization

…and much more.

Flexible SAP Analytics Cloud Broadcasting & Publishing for Countless Business Use Cases

APOS Publisher for Cloud provides the capabilitites you need to publish and broadcast the right information to the right people at the right time and in the right format.

In this webinar, we discuss:

BEx Broadcast workflow replacement
Data driven SAC report bursting
Secure report distribution
Dynamic Flexibility
Reduced IT burden

…and much more.

High-Performance Connectivity to Cloud Data Sources

This session demonstrates the great efficiency and performance benefits of direct, live connectivity from SAP Analytics Cloud to non-SAP data sources.

Topics:

Leverage data assets from your cloud data environments, such as Snowflake, Azure, AWS and Google
Leverage data from relational sources such as SQL, Oracle and DB2
Leverage OLAP sources such as Azure Analysis Services
Leverage data from your SAP applications such as SAP Ariba
Leverage DirectQuery connectivity to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud from Power BI

…and much more.

Flashes of Insight - SAP BusinessObjects Performance Analysis

This webinar discusses and demonstrates ways you can use APOS Insight to monitor, analyze and optimize SAP BusinessObjects performance. You will learn about:

Report and Query Performance
Report Schedule Monitoring
BI Environment Performance, including Server Infrastructure
BI System Performance including all SAP BusinessObjectsService KPIs
BI System Monitoring and System Health notifications

…and much more.

Simplify Analytics for SAP Ariba - APOS Live Data Gateway

SAP Ariba, SAP’s Intelligent Spend Management solution integrates procurement from end to end, which makes it a rich data environment for analytics. This webinar will:

Review options for connecting to SAP Ariba from SAP Analytics Cloud
Consider key challenges related to Ariba connection options
Establish a live mode connection to Ariba data
Simplify Ariba data with a sharable, business-oriented, semantic layer

Simplify SAP BusinessObjects Upgrade - Post-Migration Validation & Optimization

Once you have successfully upgraded your BI system, you need to focus on testing, validating, and optimizing your deployment. In this webinar, we discuss activities such as:

Validating data connectivity
Validating & optimizing security structures
Validating recurring schedules
Validating content
Performance analysis & stress testing

Extend Analytics Content with Secure & Conditional SAC Publishing

In previous webinars, we’ve looked extending SAP Analytics content access through data-driven bursting, and distribution of tailored content. Now let’s look at how you can further extend analytics content access with:

Conditional Bursting – automatically alert users when business conditions change
Securing and Protecting Content – distribute sensitive information securely
Archival of Instances for Governance – meet internal audit and regulatory requirements for information distribution

The focus of BI and analytics publishing should be to get the right content (and only the right content) in the right format to the right people at the right time. This is what APOS Publisher for Cloud can do for you.

Flashes of Insight - SAP BI Change Management

This session will look at APOS Insight, with its recently expanded capabilities, and specifically how it can help you manage changes within your system related to:

Report Structure Changes – track and validate report changes
BI Operating Environment Changes – track the impact of environmental change
BI System Security Changes –create a comprehensive security picture to manage security policy and structure change

Simplify Your SAP BusinessObjects Upgrade - Migration Execution

We discuss activities to assist in efficient and effective migration execution, including:

Migrating content – moving reports, universes, users, groups & security settings
Simplifying & optimizing – excluding unused reports, combining similar reports, adjusting BI licensing, converting to UNX universes
Securing & protecting – setting folder security by user group, implementing a content backup & restore strategy
Creating validation projects – implement your test plan using

We will look at a number of APOS products that can help you achieve your upgrade execution effectively and efficiently.

Extend Analytics Content with Distribution of Tailored Content

We discuss ways in which you can use APOS Publisher for Cloud to extend SAP Analytics Cloud story publishing, including extended formats and destinations, scheduling, bursting, and selective page distribution.

Extend Analytics Data Connectivity - Unified Data Access

This webinar looks at techniques you can employ during the pre-migration or upgrade planning stage to mitigate risk, and to simplify and automate your activities.

Simplify SAP BusinessObjects Upgrade - Pre-Migration Planning

This webinar looks at techniques you can employ during the pre-migration or upgrade planning stage to mitigate risk, and to simplify and automate your activities.

Extend Analytics Content with Bursting & Publishing

APOS Publisher enhances your SAP Analytics Cloud publishing through:

Expanded bursting formats & destinations
Dynamic, data-driven bursting rules
Robust report consolidation

Extend Analytics Data Connectivity - Unlock Live Data

This webinar looks at using APOS Live Data Gateway to:

Connect to relational data sources – on-premise or Cloud
Connect to OLAP data sources
Perform Self-service data modelling

It also looks at connectivity and data modelling use cases

Right-Sizing SAP BusinessObjects for Your Next Step

Right-sizing your SAP BusinessObjects environment is important regardless of whether you are moving to hybrid or continuing to focus on your on-premise BI.

Streamline Your Move to Hybrid BI

Achieving better time to value in your Hybrid BI and analytics deployments requires a strategic approach. While the environments are radically different, the resources they use are generally the same or similar, and even when they are not you can still leverage the time and work that has gone into your BI system to build Analytics content rapidly and efficiently.

Extend & Simplify How You Upgrade, Manage & Maintain SAP Analytics Cloud

APOS Insight for Cloud provides monitoring, validation, and impact analysis services for SAP Analytics Cloud, helping you maintain audit readiness, lan long-term changes confidently, automate report change control, optimize system performance, and troubleshoot system challenges.

Expand Live & Import Data Connection Options for SAP Analytics Cloud and the SAP Solution Landscape

Unified data connectivity across your SAP solution landscape is within your grasp using the APOS Live Data Gateway, which allows you to connect to your non-SAP data assets, and strategic SAP data assets, then consume them in SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, and other SAP platforms and applications.

Extending SAP Analytics Cloud with Bursting & Distribution

Bursting and distributing your SAP Analytics Cloud stories allows you to share your discoveries and visualizations with the right people, at the right time, using the appropriate formats and destinations, and the appropriate security.

Expanded, Simplified, Unified, Governed Data Connectivity

See how the APOS Live Data Gateway:

Connects to a wide range of data sources
Unifies connectivity with a universal semantic layer
Enables a range of data consumers via OData, JDBC & ODBC
Provides strong performance with large data environments
Is easy to deploy

SAP BI 4.3 Official Release & Roadmap with Patrick Sims

With the official release of SAP BI 4.3, SAP BI becomes a new, better integrated, and more hybrid-friendly platform. SAP’s Patrick Sims walks us through what's new and what's coming.

Hybrid SAP BI - Data Modelling

Leverage your SAP BusinessObjects modelling logic to generate data modelling for SAP HANA and APOS Live Data Gateway.

Hybrid SAP BI - Data Connectivity

How to achieve effective enterprise data access and self-service BI using the APOS Live Data Gateway.

Hybrid SAP BI - Bursting & Publishing

In this webinar, we will consider different Hybrid scenarios, and ways that you can leverage your BI & Analytics platforms to meet your publishing, bursting, and distribution needs in Hybrid BI environments.

SAP Analytics Cloud Story Bursting & Distribution

Find out how Precision Drilling used APOS Publisher for Cloud to perform automated distribution of personalized report content.

Expanded & Unified Data Connectivity for SAP Analytics Cloud & SAP Landscape

Sunil Kumar from W.R. Grace and Graylin Johnson from Analysis Prime discuss how they use the APOS Live Data Gateway to connect SAP Analytics Cloud to their enterprise data

Extend SAP Analysis Office Connectivity, Scheduling, Distribution & Management

APOS solutions extend the capabilities of SAP Analysis Office with live data connectivity, scheduling, publishing/distribution, and content management

SAP Analysis Office Update

SAP's Jeanne Bigonnet joined us to discuss what's new in SAP Analysis Office 2.8.

SAP BI Upgrade Validation & Quality Assurance

This webinar provides practical advice and methods for how to validate your target deployment's connectivity and content, optimizing its functionality, and delivering ongoing quality assurance with APOS solutions.

SAC Analytical Applications & Analytics Designer

SAP Product Manager Jie Deng joins us to provide a solution update on SAC Analytical Applications and Analytics Designer.

Executing the SAP BI Upgrade Efficiently & Effectively

In this webinar we discuss activities to help you perform the upgrade efficiently and effectively.

SAP BusinessObjects 4.3 – A Closer Look

SAP’s Patrick Sims took us through the latest news on the important new features, timing, and direction for SAP BusinessObjects, including coverage of the new user experience, interoperability, and Web Intelligence capabilities. Check out the recording of this webinar to get the full update.

Extended SAP Analytics Cloud Live Data Connectivity

SAP Analytics Cloud live data connectivity for relational, OLAP, data appliances, Cloud, Big Data and other specialized data sources.

SAP Analytics Cloud Bursting & Distribution

Automating data-driven processes for bursting personalized SAP Analytics Cloud stories to end users.

Expanded SAP Analytics Cloud Data Connectivity

This webinar explores the differences between acquired and live data connections, and demonstrates how you can use the APOS Live Data Gateway to connect to relational and OLAP data sources.

SAP BI Upgrade & Pre-Migration Planning

Use the system audit, content backup, optimization & verification / validation capabilities of APOS solutions to augment your upgrade & migration planning & due diligence.

Automate Translation of SAP BI Modellling to HANA Modelling

Learn how APOS UMMA can help you increase the speed of SAP Analytics Cloud adoption by translating your SAP BI modelling to .SAP HANA modelling.

Monitor & Analyze SAP Analtics Cloud Availability & Performance

Learn about the APOS Insight for Cloud solution.

SAP BI 4.2 / 4.3 Roadmap Update with SAP'S Patrick Sims

Find out about what's new and upcoming in SAP BI.

SAP BI Content Storage - Backup, Archive, Disaster Recovery, Compliance

Find out about system content storage strategies for SAP BI.

Automate Report Testing for Efficiency & Accuracy

Find out how APOS Validation Manager can help you automate your report testing and liberate your resources for higher-ROI tasks.

Publishing & Managing SAP Analysis Office

Learn how to schedule, publish and manage your AO documents with APOS well managed BI solutions.

Making the Right Connections with SAP Analytics Cloud

Explore SAP Analytics Cloud data connectivity issues and see how the APOS Live Data Gateway can expand your data connectivity options.

Translate SAP BI Modelling to HANA Modelling

Learn how you can leverage your SAP BI Universes to create modelling in SAP HANA.

Streamline SAP BI Report Management

Learn how you can streamline your SAP BI report management processes with APOS well managed BI solutions.

Streamline UNX Adoption & Universe Management

Learn how the APOS Migrator for Web Intelligence and other APOS solutions can help you streamline your UNX adoption and universe management.

Resolve to Clean Up Your SAP BI System

Learn how to automate BI system cleanup for better SAP BI content availability, security and integrity.

APOS Solutions for SAP Analytics & Hybrid BI

Learn how APOS is addressing new needs in the SAP Analytics Cloud environment, ongoing needs in existing SAP BI environments, and how we can provide added stability and efficiency for the hybrid BI journey.

SAP Hybrid Analytics - Closing the Chasm between On-Premise & Cloud

SAP's Blair Wheadon joins us to talk about hybrid analytics strategies.

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