APOS On-Demand Webinars

BI System Change Management & Compliance: Boston Properties' SOX Journey

Boston Properties' Dave Pigott joins us to reprise many elements of his ASUG BI +Analytics 2018 presentation.

Like all publicly traded companies, Boston Properties faced increasing audit requirements on its financial reports and internal controls to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance, and to adhere to regulated standards. These growing requirements created additional pressure and accountability for their SAP BusinessObjects deployment, as well as challenging and time-consuming responsibilities for the BI & IT teams.

SAP BI & GDPR Compliance

The EU's General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) sets forth numerous new provisions for handling the private information of data subjects. How do these provisions affect your SAP BI operations?

Detecting SAP BI System Change - Security & Usage

Detecting security changes in your SAP BI system is critical to governance, compliance and the maintenance of legislated privacy requirements. Detecting usage changes helps you to analyze changing patterns in user behavior to help you prepare for migration projects, and hardware upgrades and sizing exercises, and to ensure your licensing meets the needs of your users and organizations.

Taking Command of BI System Change - APOS Insight

For some, awareness of BI system changes is driven by a corporate governance mandate, while for others it may be fueled by industry compliance requirements. For a great many more, the need for clarity around system changes is driven by effective operational management of the BI system.

Web Intelligence Update with SAP's Gregory Botticchio

SAP's Gregory Botticchio joins us to talk about the newest features in SAP Web Intelligence, as well as the road ahead, including upcoming features which will bring the Web Intelligence user experience closer to that of Lumira / Design Studio with common navigation actions and a new filter experience.

Enhanced Content Distribution & Integration of BI Content into Business Workflows

Jason demonstrates how Computer Services Inc. integrated SAP BusinessObjects into their core bank processing solution with the help of APOS Distribution Server. APOS solution consultant Alan Golding discusses the enhanced distribution options provided by the integration of APOS Distribution Server with BI Launchpad in SAP BI 4.2 SP4.

Automate & Simplify SAP BI Administration with APOS Administrator

This webinar explores the many time- and labor-intensive SAP BI administrative tasks faced by administrators on an ongoing and recurring basis, and ways to automate and simplify these activities.

Lumira Live Data Connectivity with the APOS Live Data Gateway

The APOS Live Data Gateway simplifies data access to numerous data sources for Lumira users, providing live data connectivity that can be managed easily by end users without them having to write SQL.

Lumira 2.0 / 2.1 Update with SAP's David Stocker

SAP's David Stocker joins us for an update on what's new in SAP Lumira 2.0, and what's coming in SAP Lumira 2.1.

Automate Report Testing with APOS Validation Manager

The APOS Validation Manager solution presents a project-based, highly controlled environment for automated report testing. From regression testing of day-to-day report development and universe change management, to full-version migration and upgrades, it takes the compromise, drudgery, and human error out of the testing process.

Enhanced Content Distribution in SAP BI 4.2 SP4

With the release of Service Pack 4 for SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2, BI administrators gain substantial control over distribution of content, and BI users gain many new distribution capabilities.

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 SP4 Update
with SAP's Sathish Rajagopal

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 Service Pack 4 (SP4) continues the evolution and convergence of the SAP business intelligence offering. SAP's Sathish Rajagopal joined us to discuss innovations in SP4

Taking Command of Your System Storage
- APOS Storage Center

Those responsible for the development of system  storage strategies must contend with the variable value of content and its dual nature as both an asset and a potential liability. The strategies they develop must balance content security, availability and retention with system performance. The webinar explores these issues with reference to the APOS Storage Center solution.

SAPinsider Q&A -
SAP BI Product Convergence Update: What’s Happening Today, What Is Coming Next, and What Does It Mean for You?

This Q&A event, sponsored by APOS for the third consecutive year, explores the SAP BI Convergence Strategy, and what it means for the individual SAP BI products, and for SAP users. The session featured a number of SAP luminaries, including Jayne Landry, Ty Miller, Merlijn Ekkel, and Blair Wheadon.

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This webinar presented techniques for automating report and instance testing for Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, and Analysis for Office, and shows how you can not only rapidly increase migration and technology adoption, but also manage the day-to-day report changes efficiently, save time and money, and maintain confidence in your BI deployment in times of rapid change.

This webinar covers key advancements and benefits of the UNX semantic layer, factors impacting different UNX adoption strategies, and effective use of technologies, which can streamline the adoption process. The session also featured a look at some APOS technologies that can help you in your UNX adoption planning and execution..

SAP's Pierpaolo Vezzosi joined us to discuss innovations in the SAP BusinessObjects semantic layer, including linked universes, building multidimensional universes on BEx queries, and new connectivity options for HANA.