Scheduling & Broadcasting SAP Analysis for Office Reports

 

SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office (AfO) remains a very popular reporting and analytics solution for many SAP customers, even as they transition away from SAP BusinessObjects to SAP Analytics Cloud. Neither SAP BusinessObjects nor SAP Analytics Cloud replace Analysis for Office capabilities. Analysis for Office complements both, giving financial analysts and line-of-business users the ability to analyze data from SAP platforms such as  BW, BW/4HANA, S/4HANA, and Datasphere with Excel’s pivot table functionality.

Scheduling and broadcasting Analysis for Office reports can present challenges in both SAP BusinessObjects and SAP Analytics Cloud. Fortunately, APOS has solutions for both scenarios.

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APOS Publisher for Cloud for Analysis for Office

SAP Analytics Cloud does not support Analysis for Office report scheduling and broadcasting.

APOS Publisher for Cloud unifies your SAP Analytics Cloud stories, SAP Analytics Cloud applications, and Analysis for Office reports in a single scheduling and broadcasting environment, which includes:

  • Automated broadcasting
  • Expanded formats
  • Expanded destinations
  • Multi-format support
  • Encryption
  • Password protection

Making Analysis for Office report scheduling and broadcasting available in SAP Analytics Cloud removes barriers for organizations wishing to move beyond their SAP BusinessObjects deployment and move forward into SAP Analytics Cloud.

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Schedule and broadcast SAP Analysis for Office reports

 

APOS Publisher for Analysis for Office in BusinessObjects

SAP BusinessObjects has Publications capabilities for AfO reports. However, many organizations have adopted APOS Publisher for SAP BusinessObjects to extend their scheduling and broadcasting capabilities for both Web Intelligence reports and AfO reports.

When you are scheduling for yourself or your team, you may be repeating the same scheduling operation over and over. APOS Publisher automates scheduling so you don’t have to repeat the process over and over. In conversations with many of our customers who are using Analysis for Office with SAP BusinessObjects, we have discovered that scheduling is high on their list of challenges.

Scheduling is a broad topic encompassing:

  • Scheduling for personal use
  • Scheduling for team use
  • Repeated, recurring scheduling
  • Scheduling for large, diverse groups
  • Scheduling for external stakeholders
  • Scheduling to different formats and destination types

APOS Publisher automates these scheduling and broadcasting tasks.

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Analysis for Office Management & Administration in BusinessObjects

As your scheduling and distribution requirements become more complex and the volume of reports grows, so too will your need for more and more comprehensive scheduling and distribution capabilities. The APOS Administrator , APOS Publisher and APOS Insight solutions have been designed to provide these capabilities.

Once you have achieved easy-to-use, flexible, scalable and reusable scheduling, Analysis for Office becomes an instrument of mass distribution.

This substantial achievement leads to some new challenges: volume and complexity. These new challenges lead to new requirements. You will need to find ways to streamline the management and administration of the Analysis Office environment and its content. These challenges include:

  • Bulk instance management
  • Document archive and backup
  • Document impact analysis
  • Automated testing/validation of Analysis Office documents

The APOS Administrator, APOS Storage Center, and APOS Insight solutions have been designed to meet these needs.

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Modernizing BEx Broadcaster Workflows

BEx broadcasting 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.

APOS Publisher for Cloud is very effective in replacing these broadcasting workflows in SAP Analytics Cloud, including options for both SAP Analytics Cloud reports (SAC Stories & Applications) and SAP Analysis for Office reports.

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