Older APOS On-Demand Webinars

Unleash the Power of APOS Publisher for Cloud: Enhanced SAP Analytics Cloud Report Broadcasting

Many organizations that have adopted SAP Analytics Cloud find that their report broadcasting requirements are larger than SAC’s built-in publications capabilities. Join us for this live session looking at how the APOS Publisher for Cloud solution delivers on enterprise-level report broadcasting and distribution requirements. Whether you have BEx Broadcaster or BusinessObjects Publications process replacement needs, or you have brand new SAC report distribution requirements, this session will give you a clear view into Publisher for Cloud’s capabilities and how it can work for you.

What you will learn:

How to leverage automated, data-driven SAC report broadcasting with:

• Data-driven dynamic broadcasting rules
• Report broadcast destinations
• Multiple format options
• Consolidation of multiple reports
• Security/filtering/variables

The latest updates and new capabilities of APOS Publisher for Cloud, including:

• New Integrated Scheduling
• SAP BW & Datasphere User Based Broadcasting
• High Availability
• Distributed Processing
• Security & Administration

MOVE IT OR LOSE IT! Automating Your Upgrade to UNX Universes

With SAP's announcement that SAP BusinessObjects will continue for the foreseeable future as an on-premise BI platform, conversion of UNV universes to UNX has become a priority for many organizations that had been biding their time until now.

The SAP BusinessObjects platform will cease to support the UNV universe after BI 4.3. SAP’s Laura Vega describes this situation as, "UNV is dead, long live UNX." While this sunset seems to be in the distant future, organizations need to consider what is required to make an orderly and efficient transition to UNX universes. An orderly and efficient upgrade -- one in which you manage your resources and content effectively -- takes time to plan and execute.

This session focused on how APOS Web Intelligence Migrator can help you automate and accelerate your UNX conversion and Web Intelligence repointing. We demonstrated how the planning and execution of your upgrade does not need to be intimidating. What you will learn:

• Why upgrade to UNX now?
• What are the challenges you will face upgrading to UNX?
• How does automation make this project achievable?
• How does APOS automation allow you to control the process confidently?

Right-Sizing SAP BusinessObjects for Your Next Step

Right-sizing your SAP BusinessObjects environment is important regardless of whether you are planning a platform upgrade, adopting SAP Analytics Cloud, moving to a hybrid BI deployment, upgrading to BI 4.3 (and beyond to BI 2024?) or making some other change or shift in your SAP BI deployment. This webinar will highlight ways to achieve your right-sizing objectives for such changes, and ensure your system runs efficiently and cost-effectively.

To ensure your system runs efficiently and cost-effectively, you should:

• Rationalize – Assess necessary and unnecessary content, users, licenses and infrastructure.
• Reduce – Find and remove unnecessary users and content from the system.
• Restructure – Make your infrastructure and licensing fit your needs.

APOS Publisher for Cloud Solution Update – Advancements for SAC Broadcasting

This session looks at how the APOS Publisher for Cloud solution meets and exceeds enterprise-level bursting, broadcasting, publishing and distribution requirements, and how these requirements are driving adoption of APOS Publisher for Cloud. Here’s your chance to see how this can work for you. Topics include

How to leverage automated, data-driven broadcasting with:

• Data-driven dynamic rules
• Multiple format options
• Consolidation of multiple reports
• Multiple destinations
• Scheduling/conditional bursting
• Security/Filtering/Variables

The latest updates and new capabilities of APOS Publisher for Cloud, including:

• Shared vs private deployments
• MFA support
• Simplified Configuration 
• Widget level bursting
• Optimized presentation support
• High-volume export
• Grid/table Excel Consolidation

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Resolve to Clean Up Your SAP BI System

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

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

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

Automating SAP BI Report Version Analysis

Gain operational efficiencies, technical debt reduction and better SAP BI governance by automating SAP BI report version analysis.

Enhanced SAP BI Publishing - Bursting & Distribution

Learn how agile bursting, comprehensive monitoring, alerts & auditing, and flexible distribution can benefit your organization.

SAP Web Intelligence Update with Gregory Botticchio

Gregory Botticchio discusses improvements, as well as the road ahead and upcoming features. Join us to learn about the current state of Web Intelligence, and to discover its future.

Validating SAP BI System Change

Find out how automation can save you time and resources while helping you mee your operational, compliance and governance objectives

Expanding Analysis Office Capabilities with APOS Solutions

Expanded live data connectivity, scheduling, and publishing options, and greater management and administration flexibility.

Effecting BI System Change - Automation & Bulk Operations

This webinar shows you how you can use rapid administration capabilities to effect BI system change with speed and precision for security, scheduling, instances, report objects users & groups and more.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Automated Report Testing: Rapid Technology Adoption & Change Management - APOS Validation Manager

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.

SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Monitoring

APOS well managed BI solutions have many capabilities to help you monitor and audit activity on your SAP BusinessObjects deployment. Check out this webinar to find out how new advanced monitoring capabilities can help you achieve your operational and governance objectives.

Advancing Healthcare BI with Strong System Awareness

Healthcare BI platform managers and administrators face ever-increasing internal governance and external regulatory requirements, and resource limitations often prevent them from managing their BI deployment proactively as they would like. These managers and administrators need to find ways to do more with less. Host Jay Murdoch and APOS solution consultant Alan Golding present strategies for increasing SAP BusinessObjects BI awareness, collecting actionable BI information, and acting on that information using simplified and automated bulk management of your BI environment.

Taking Control of Your SAP BI Deployment During Migration - The Santa Clara County SSA Story

Ely Turkenitz joined us to discuss how Santa Clara County Social Services Agency (SSA) used APOS well managed BI solutions to take control of their SAP BI4 Environment during migration to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1. SSA needed to formulate deep system knowledge to understand the state of their SAP BI content, and to implement a content storage strategy that would allow them to migrate their content with confidence.

Conquering SAP BusinessObjects Content Chaos

This webinar explores tips and tricks for reducing, preventing and managing the SAP BusinessObjects content chaos that arises from the growing volume of content and complexity of content requirements faced by BI platform managers and administrators. This volume and complexity is further complicated by the growing role of internal governance and regulatory compliance in the formulation of content storage strategies.

Automated Report Testing - Accelerating SAP BusinessObjects Migrations & Upgrades

This webinar presents techniques for automating report and instance testing, and shows how you can rapidly increase migration and technology adoption, save time and money, and maintain confidence in your BI deployment in times of rapid change.

Advancing Healthcare BI with Efficient BI System Administration

Healthcare BI platform managers and administrators face ever-increasing internal governance and external regulatory requirements, and resource limitations often prevent them from managing their BI deployment proactively as they would like. These managers and administrators need to find ways to do more with less. Host Jay Murdoch and APOS solution consultant Alan Golding present strategies for increasing SAP BusinessObjects BI awareness, collecting actionable BI information, and acting on that information using simplified and automated bulk management of your BI environment.

What's New in SAP Analysis Office with SAP's Alexander Peter

SAP’s Alexander Peter joined us to discuss what’s new and what’s ahead for SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office (Analysis Office).

SAP Analysis for Office -Scheduling, Distributing, Managing

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for Office is the BI information analysis and delivery tool of choice for many users, both because of its capabilities and its ease of use. If your organization is looking for ways to increase both of these features of Analysis for Office, then you should definitely attend this webinar. This webinar focused on strategies and techniques to improve the efficiency and reach of your Analysis for Office workflows and documents.

Managing SAP BI Content Delivery Chaos

This webinar considered many aspects of a targeted information delivery strategy, including advanced bursting, automated document production, iInteractive process control, workflow monitoring, alerts & auditing, enhanced distribution, and encryption & integration.

SAPinsider Live Q & A with Jayne Landry, Ty Miller, Oliver Duvelleroy

We were once again pleased to bring you a very informative SAPinsider Q & A, featuring some of SAP's most important thought leaders. This year, SAP's Jayne Landry, Ty Miller, Olivier Duvelleroy, Alexander Peter, David Stocker, Grégory Botticchio, and Adrian Westmoreland gave you the opportunity to pose your questions directly, learn what's new in BI 4.2, and explore the boundaries and synergies of the SAP BI 4.2 BI tool set.

Delivering Better Healthcare BI with Advanced Query Mannagement

Your BI query management capabilities are key to enabling the effective, efficient and secure interoperability of SAP BI with other healthcare information systems and workflows. The growing complexity in data access, sensitive data audit, and data accountability requirements are making BI query management more and more difficult. What can you do to counter this growing complexity? This webinar answers high-level and detailed questions about how to monitor, manage and audit your BI data connectivity both.

Reducing SAP BI System Chaos with Deep System Introspection

A chaotic BI environment can prevent your BI administration team, and your information consumers, from realizing the full benefits of your BI system. Chaos can arise for many reasons, and a critical requirement to battle system chaos is the development of a deep knowledge of your deployment's structure, content, and usage. This webinar explores ways of developing these capabilities with reference to the APOS Insight solution.

Improving Healthcare BI with Proactive System Storage

Formulating and executing an advanced, proactive Healthcare BI system storage strategy is essential to the protection of your content assets, and to the health of your BI system. The implementation of such a strategy is not merely a matter of convenience to your BI administration team, but is of great strategic value in managing healthcare information, and essential to realizing the full ROI potential of your BI system.

Conquering SAP BI Administration Chaos

This webinar explores SAP BI administration tips and techniques for reducing, preventing and managing the many activities, events and factors that create administrative chaos in your SAP BI environment.