Getting personalized analytics to the right people, at the right time, in the right format

APOS Publisher for SAP S/4HANA automates processes for broadcasting personalized analytics data to end users in a collaborative team environment, and based on content from SAP Analytics Cloud – both the Enterprise edition or S/4HANA Embedded edition.  Dynamic, security driven processes with strict filters provide SAP Analytics broadcasting capabilities and help administrators ensure users receive only the data to which they are entitled. Broadcast designers from different departments and groups can safely collaborate and share data securely on one enterprise system.

 

Unified Data Connectivity

Personalized S/4HANA Distribution

Simplifying user experience with offline consumption of the filtered and personalized S/4HANA data they need, dynamically data-driven

Governed Data Connectivity

Strategic Timing

Tailored S/4HANA reports broadcast at strategic times for maximum impact on decision making and job execution

Universal Semantic Layer

Tailored Format

Consumers receive the S/4HANA information they need in the convenient and specific format they require for immediate use, removing connection barriers

Scalability

Scalability

Horizontal and vertical scalability to meet growing information demands with optimized performance and redundancy

Secure Collaboration

Secure Collaboration

Multiple broadcast designers can securely collaborate on content and safely share data sources

Self-Service Data Modelling

Dynamic Flexibility

Handle unique and changing scenarios, control and change filtering and broadcast by controlling the S/4HANA data which drives the process without burdening users or IT resources


Hunt LNG Success Story with APOS Publisher for Cloud

Hunt LNG reduced IT burden while achieving automated, timely distribution of critical operational data and events to SAC and non-SAC users in the office and in the field - Read more

NLMK Europe Success Story with APOS Publisher for Cloud

A seamless, data-driven solution for NLMK automated personalized, time-critical broadcasts to customers in preferred formats - Read more


APOS Publisher for Cloud Overview

 

IT Processing Features

Personalize Broadcast

Personalize data sets broadcast with S/4HANA data-driven processes. For example, broadcast personalized reports to doctors, nurses and administrators to provide timely, critical information. Send ready-to-use, scheduled information updates to oil rig or other remote and low-bandwidth users.

Simplify Administration

Liberate IT from labor-intensive processes.

Create a Flexible Messaging Environment Driven by S/4HANA Data

Attain far greater flexibility than you can with simple scheduling.

Broadcast Reports with Multiple Filters

Use the same page within an S/4HANA report multiple times with different filters to personalize content for users and groups.

Automate Secure Information Delivery

Dynamic, data-driven processes allow you to automate the secure delivery of messages.

Automate Changes through Data

Adjust broadcasting automatically when the S/4HANA data driving the broadcast processes changes.


End User Features

Simplify the User Experience

Remove barriers to connection, and liberate users from the need for analytics expertise.

Deliver Timely S/4HANA Information

Deliver timely information through automated broadcasting processes.

Broadcast Conditionally

Enable conditional broadcasting based on KPIs and pre-defined thresholds in S/4HANA.

Improve User Convenience

Enable offline consumption of S/4HANA information.

Collate Stories

Broadcast pages from multiple reports as a single document.


Formatting Features

Use Multiple Formats & Destinations

Provide S/4HANA datasets to users in the format and to the location that is most useful to them. For example, send Excel spreadsheets to users who need to further analyze data. Send PDFs via email to external partners having no access to your S/4HANA Analytics platform.

Formats include:

  • PDF
  • Excel
  • Word
  • PowerPoint
  • Rich Text (RTF)
  • Image in email

Destinations Include:

  • Email
  • Secure FTP (FTPS)
  • File location

Personalize PowerPoint Broadcasting

Use custom templates for broadcasting PowerPoint presentations.

Customize HTML Email Broadcasting

Gain full control of email message formatting, including dynamically generated links.

Embed Images in Email

Embed images of pages from your story into the body of email messages.

Extract Data to Excel

Enable downloading large tables/grids to Excel.

Videos Click here to view short videos describing these core broadcasting capabilities

 


IT Processing Features

Enhanced Security

Create individual user profiles and define groups to segregate users across business units and sub-units, with specific access roles to folders.

Shared & Private Folders

Public folders enable authorized user groups to collaborate in building broadcasting definitions and broadcasting content. Private folders allow individuals to build their own broadcasting definitions for either personal use or in preparation for sharing with a group.

Shared & Private Data Sources

Data sources contain information such as email addresses, filter values, destinations & format settings, SAC story IDs and model names, dimension names, which are used to drive the broadcasting process. Data sources can be made public and shared with an authorized group, or kept private for personal use, or in preparation for sharing with a group.

BW User-Based Broadcasting

Automatically broadcast BW-based stories based on BW authorizations on behalf of BW users while retaining their authorizations. Also available to support other live data sources.

Upcoming Features

  • Enhanced Scalability
  • Self Service Publishing

 


Scalability

Scalability

Horizontal and vertical scalability enables extensive growth capacity, and yeilds increased throughput and redundancy for a true enterprise experience. Strenghten a processing machine with additional RAM and cores to increase your processing capability, or add additional processing and scheduling servers for even more capacity and additional redundancy for the process.

Enhanced Scheduling

Scheduling is tightly integrated with granular tracking of processing activity, auditing, and monitoring of the scheduling activity with great control over the process and failure recovery.

Granular Monitoring

Live, granular monitoring of the schedule execution provides indication of the exact stage of processing of the broadacsting definition and live running total of the sent documents within the broadcast process.

Logging and History

Full audit information for the broadcast process is provided, with the automatic ability for retries.

Upcoming Feature

  • Self Service Publishing

 


BEx Broadcasting Replacement

Replacing BEx Broadcasting for SAP BW/4HANA

BEx Reports and BEx Broadcaster capabilities are not available in SAP BW/4HANA. APOS Publisher for Cloud provides a replacement for BEx broadcasting workflows, enabling important communications to continue, and allowing organizations to distribute reports to a wide variety of users, partners and customers as part of their move to SAP BW/4HANA. Learn more


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Videos Click here to view short videos describing these enterprise report broadcasting capabilities

 


Precision Drilling


Our SAP Analytics Cloud deployment focused on the reports that needed to be in place on our Go-Live date. We used SAC to populate dashboards with drill-down capabilities for execution and middle management, but we needed to find a way to get this information out reliably to our field superintendents. APOS Publisher for Cloud easily filled this gap in our requirements.

Chris James, Senior Manager, Application Technology, Precision Drilling

WR Grace

Precision Drilling Success Story with APOS Publisher for Cloud

Precision Drilling achieved automated, personalized, rig-specific, dynamic reports for field personnel - Read more


Solution Architecture

APOS Publisher for S/4HANA Architecture

 

Why Broadcasting is Important

APOS Publisher for SAP S/4HANA broadcasting uses automated, dynamic, S/4HANA data-driven processes to push personalized SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics content out to the appropriate people at the appropriate time in appropriate formats and to appropriate destinations. Broadcasting ensures that your people get the timely information they need (and only the information they need) to excel in their work. Broadcasting enables scenarios in which personalized analytics information can be consumed offline in the formats most useful to the recipients. Broadcasting removes barriers to connection and simplifies the user experience: users do not need power-user expertise in analytics to get the information they need when they need it.

Broadcasting is low maintenance, because it is data-driven. You can "set it and forget it," because as the data driving the processes changes, the broadcasting process adjusts automatically. Broadcasting accomplishes far more than scheduling by serving personalized tranches of information. Scheduling pushes information to a static list of users, and scheduling changes are labor- and time-intensive. Achieving Broadcasting's dynamic flexibility would be prohibitively labor- and time-intensive if attempted with scheduling.

APOS Publisher for SAP S/4HANA broadcasting is doubly liberating: it relieves IT of labor-intensive processes, and it relieves users of the need to search for information – information comes to them.

 

 

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