In his TechEd 2016 keynote address, Irfan Khan, CTO for SAP Global Customer Operations (GC0), marked the
twentieth anniversary and spoke with customers, asking
them:
"How can you
become faster, simpler, smarter, in the context of your digital journey?"
He noted that Moore's Law continues to be
in force as memory and computing power double every 12 to 18 months, and that
this growth was part of what was fueling disruptive times in the world of data
science. SAP BusinessObjects Cloud was designed to coalesce BI, predictive, and
planning to a single platform in response to these disruptive times.
Irfan's emphasis was on the SAP BW/4HANA
platform, and he used the "data lake" concept to talk about not just the volume of
data the HANA platform was capable of containing, but also how available that
data was for analysis and decision-making. Unlike the standard data warehouse
or data mart, HANA is not limited to aggregated data. When you query or run an
algorithm against HANA, you are not querying merely the rolled-up summaries of
the data, but the entire data lake itself, meaning the Devil can't hide in the
details.
If you are a BI platform manager or
administrator, you know the volume of your data and the complexity of your
information requirements are growing at an ever-increasing pace, and in
parallel with Moore's Law. Irfan told us that "Every aspect of our
environment is changing. We are entering a digital environment." For BI
people, this sea change manifests itself in the growth of real-time and ad hoc
business intelligence, and the corresponding importance of proactive BI
administration.
However, this growth in the importance of
BI to the enterprise, and the need for BI administrators to work "faster,
simpler, smarter," does not necessarily come with a corresponding growth
in available resources, so in order for BI platform managers to work faster and
simpler, they most definitely need to find ways to work smarter.
APOS Systems has been the source for BI
solutions to help SAP customers running SAP BusinessObjects achieve "faster,
simpler, smarter" BI platform management and administration capabilities,
or what we like to call Well Managed BI. These solutions let you:
- Formulate deep knowledge of your system, so you know what is happening, why it is happening, and who is making it happen
- Bulk manage objects, schedules and instances to improve service and liberate your resources for higher-value activities
- Implement an advanced content storage strategy to protect your content, and to meet internal governance and regulatory compliance requirements
- Employ advanced query governance to ensure your BI system makes the most of its data connectivity
- Perform precision content delivery to ensure the right content gets to the right people at the right time in the right format with the right security
- Streamline migration and upgrade processes and automate report object and instance testing
- Expand data connectivity options to leverage existing data sources and calculations
- Expand Analysis for Office scheduling, instance management, document backup and archive, impact analysis, and use Analysis for Office as a data source for other SAP BI tools
For more information on how APOS can help
your BI platform management become faster, simpler, and smarter, visit our Well Managed BI Solutions page.
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