Thursday, September 24, 2024

Make Analysis for Office an Integral Part of Your Analytics with Scheduling & Broadcasting

Centralize scheduling and broadcasting for better data governance

APOS Publisher for Cloud now allows users to schedule and broadcast Analysis for Office reports from the SAP Analytics Cloud Repository. Why is this an important development?

First, it is important because it allows Analysis for Office users to share their analyses in a timely and accurate manner with automated scheduling and broadcasting.

It is also important because it is a significant step forward in unifying analytics within an organization's data fabric. The purpose of a data fabric is to eliminate data silos and data fragmentation, creating real-time, consistent, self-service, governed and shared analytics.

Analysis for Office remains an important ingredient in the analytics mix for many organizations, but it is an Excel add-in that runs standalone on a user's PC, which creates the potential for data silos and fragmentation. Many Analysis for Office users operate in a fully decentralized manner, and organizations have limited understanding or controls over Analysis for Office processes and requirements. The cumulative effect of ungoverned, uncontrolled, and inefficient report scheduling cycles by a wide range of individual schedulers may be leading to a notable processing load on SAP data environments that is unnecessary.

Moving Analysis for Office reports to the SAP Analytics Cloud Repository is a first step toward making Analysis for Office an integral part of your data fabric, promoting:

• Data governance
• Data integration
• Data observability
• Data security
• Data orchestration
• Master data management

APOS Publisher for Cloud's scheduling and broadcasting capabilities assist your organization's efforts to make Analysis for Office an integral part of your data fabric by enforcing restrictions on data access

Data Governance is Key

As organizations seek to build centralized analytics around SAP Analytics Cloud, they face some significant challenges that act as barriers to adoption. The need for solid data governance is paramount as these organizations seek to manage data assets and protect sensitive and competitive information. They need to protect data even as they distribute their analytical insights to stakeholders.

APOS Publisher for Cloud acts as a central scheduling and broadcasting platform, allowing such organizations to apply the same well governed scheduling and broadcasting rules and capabilities to all of their SAP Analytics content, including Analysis for Office, SAC stories, and SAC applications.

APOS Publisher for Cloud is a scheduling and broadcasting solution for cloud-based analytics. It transmits personalized analytics to the right people, at the right time, and in the right format. "Right" in this context means that the information sent goes only to the people who are authorized to receive it, that they receive it when it is most useful to them, and that they receive it in a format that makes most sense for them.