Thursday, October 10, 2024

Solution Summary: SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office Report Scheduling & Broadcasting

The exciting news that APOS Publisher for Cloud now supports SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office report scheduling and broadcasting removes a significant barrier to SAP Analytics Cloud adoption.

In a series of blog posts, we explore what these new capabilities mean for your organization.

Moving SAP Analysis for Office to SAP Analytics Cloud

Many organizations have not been able to move beyond their SAP BusinessObjects deployment because no AfO scheduling and broadcast solution has been available in SAP Analytics Cloud. For such organizations, Analysis for Office may be the only reason they are maintaining their SAP BusinessObjects system. Maintaining the SAP BusinessObjects system means that it ties up valuable system management resources and keeps the organization from adopting new infrastructure and licensing, and their personnel from embracing new skill sets.

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Moving Beyond SAP BusinessObjects - SAP Analysis for Office

How APOS Publisher for Cloud Promotes SAP Analytics Cloud Adoption

The need to "push" reports out to stakeholders in a timely manner, in usable formats, and to appropriate locations, is a central requirement in the analytics program of many organizations.

For those organizations that require a push methodology, the absence of robust publications capabilities in SAP Analytics Cloud is a barrier to adoption. There are challenging limitations on broadcasting stories and applications, and entirely no capability to schedule and broadcast Analysis for Office reports. These organizations often maintain an SAP BusinessObjects environment to achieve their push objectives.

Fortunately, APOS Publisher for Cloud removes this barrier to SAP Analytics Cloud adoption.

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Moving Beyond SAP BusinessObjects - SAP Analysis for Office

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.

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

Simplified Scheduling using a Web User Interface

Scheduling Analysis for Office reports is critical to ensuring that content has been refreshed in a timely manner to suit the needs of stakeholders.

APOS Publisher for Cloud delivers an efficient scheduling environment that enables users to organize and execute the timely processing of their Analysis for Office reports, including time-based report scheduling with hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly report processing, as well as event-based and conditional report scheduling to meet tactical processing needs. Publisher for Cloud's Web User Interface makes SAC story, SAC application, and AfO report scheduling very simple for all users.

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Simplify Analysis for Office Scheduling in APOS Publisher for Cloud's Web User Interface

BEx Broadcaster Replacement in SAP Analytics Cloud

APOS Publisher for Cloud smooths the adoption of both Analysis for Office and SAP Analytics Cloud by fulfilling BEx Broadcaster workflow needs with Analysis for Office scheduling & broadcasting capabilities.

BEx Broadcaster has been an important tool for organizations using SAP Business Explorer (BEx) reports and SAP Business Warehouse (BW). It has effectively served important communication workflows over the past twenty-plus years, allowing organizations to distribute SAP BEx reports to a wide variety of users, partners and customers.

However, with the need to push content out to stakeholders continuing to be a critical requirement for many of these organizations, and with the sunsetting of BEx reports, such organizations need to deploy an alternative to BEx broadcasting as part of their digital transformation and move to S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, Datasphere, and other updated technologies.

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Modernizing BEx Broadcaster Workflows - SAP Analytics Cloud, Analysis for Office