Older APOS On-Demand Webinars

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.