Well Managed BI

A division of a major African retail and wholesale group has hundreds of stores in multiple countries, and is a leader in the general merchandise, liquor, home improvement and wholesale food markets. Their challenge was to communicate timely information using SAC visualizations and reports to their network of store managers and executives for better, data-driven management. They found that the Publications capabilities of SAC made report broadcasting complex and time consuming.

APOS Data Gateway and SAP Analytics Cloud are integral parts of the IT landscape at Aspris. The combination of SAP Analytics Cloud, APOS Data Gateway, and Azure SQL is known internally at Aspris as “Aspris Insight,” and this combination is helping Aspris toward a culture of data literacy within the organization, leading to higher service levels for the young people in their care, better management of education, and greater accountability amongst their staff.

A multinational company at the forefront of aerospace innovation, including the design and manufacture of commercial aircraft, defence contracting and space engineering needed to schedule and execute emails with filtered SAC reports as automatically customized PDF files detailing performance metrics for all manufacturing and assembly facilities.

The key to a winning report broadcasting strategy is fulfilling the needs of your recipients in an effective and efficient manner. What this means in practice is using dynamic processes to deliver relevant information to the right people at the right time and in the right formats.

APOS Publisher for Cloud report broadcasting uses the “push” communications concept, which places information into the daily workflow of recipients in the format that is most useful to them.

Reporting is a critically important supply chain element for an intralogistics organization that optimizes material handling, warehousing, and material flow for its customers. Suppliers receive reports on expected inventory delivery timelines and locations.

A multinational telecommunications company and wireless carrier, one of the largest in the world, with revenues above $100 billion, was upgrading SAP BusinessObjects to BI 4.3, and eventually to BI 2025, and moving from Teradata to Snowflake Data Cloud. Because BI 2025 does not support UNV universes, the company had to convert their UNV universes to UNX, and repoint and validate their Web Intelligence reports.

Salling Group is a large, Europe-based retailer running multiple chains of retail stores, and the largest retailer in Denmark. Salling had consolidated a large legacy of financial data in Snowflake Data Cloud. They needed their analysts to have access to this data in SAP Analytics Cloud to extract KPI and other comparative data to drive better business decisions moving forward. However, SAP Analytics Cloud does not support live data connectivity with Snowflake Data Cloud.

The new APOS Import Data Gateway expands data connectivity to let you leverage your non-SAP data assets through the full cycle of SAP Analytics Cloud Planning.

A large, multinational insurance and financial institution with a long-term commitment to SAP BusinessObjects used APOS Web Intelligence Migrator to implement UNX universes in readiness for SAP BI 2025.

A recent APOS webinar revealed a number of customer success stories from different industries, each illustrating that you need not be intimidated by your upcoming UNV conversion project, regardless of its size. Here are some videos based on that webinar’s content.

SAP Analytics Cloud report broadcasting has become a hot topic. As organizations develop new capabilities and analytics strategies, they also need to communicate insights to larger audiences in a timely and secure manner. APOS Publisher for Cloud fills this need.

Broadcasting, also known as bursting, is the amplification of your Analytics content to a defined set of recipients who have specific needs and preferences concerning the timing, location, content and formatting of reports. Here is the process in a nutshell.

How do APOS solutions complement and extend SAP Analytics Cloud capabilities for the Intelligent Enterprise? That was SAP podcaster Malavikha’s question for APOS COO Allan Pym in this recent podcast.

APOS Publisher for Cloud lets you get the right information to the right people at the right time and in the right format with push distribution, dynamic flexibility, personalized distribution, strategic timing, tailored messaging, and tailored destinations.

SAP’s redefined roadmap is bringing renewed attention and enthusiasm for the road ahead for SAP BusinessObjects deployments. Organizations are regrouping – refreshing their plans and repositioning for continued and expanded BI value from existing BI assets. In this whitepaper, we present a roadmap for embracing the future of SAP BusinessObjects, taking you through the steps that will lead you to a future-proof deployment.

APOS Live Data Gateway has been a key piece for many of our customers seeking to establish a scalable, flexible architecture for data management, access, governance, and security as described by James Kobielus in his State of Analytics report, which leverages TDWI’s analytics maturity model. APOS Live Data Gateway expands, simplifies and unifies data connectivity for SAP environments and other analytics landscapes to leverage the important benefits of live data connectivity.

Aspris’s digital transformation has taken them from static Web Intelligence reports with SAP BusinessObjects to real-time dashboards with SAP Analytics Cloud, combining 21 SaaS business applications plus core MIS operational systems, a Databricks ETL to Azure SQL warehouse, and an SAP Analytics Cloud front end.