SAP's David Stocker Gives Us the Lowdown on SAP Lumira 2.0 / 2.1

In a recent APOS webinar, SAP's David Stocker updated us on the current state of Lumira Discovery and Lumira Designer (formerly Design Studio), including what's new in Lumira 2.0, and on the roadmap for 2.0 and 2.1.

The key to Lumira's success, now and for the future, is the integration of discovery and design within a single solution, and the interoperability of that solution with other components of the SAP BI landscape.

Here's the road map David laid out for us during the webinar:

Note that this road map is subject to the usual SAP disclaimer on forward-looking technology statements.

If you want to see and hear more about the present and future of SAP Lumira:

View the Lumira 2.0 / 2.1 Lumira Update webinar on demand

SAP Lumira is designed to deliver live connectivity to SAP BW, SAP HANA, and the SAP S4HANA Analytic Engine, and connects to universes (UNX) and other third-party relational data sources to allow you to acquire data for discovery and design.

APOS Live Data Gateway - Extended Live Data Connectivity for SAP Lumira

If you would prefer to connect to live data in third-party data sources, such as:

• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle
• DB2
• Sybase IQ
• Sybase SQL Anywhere
• Teradata
• IBM Netezza Data Warehouse Appliances

…then you should have a look at the APOS Live Data Gateway solution. If you want to familiarize yourself with this solution,

Update: SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 Semantic Layer

APOS is hosting another SAP update webinar on Thursday, February 16, at 11 am EST. This time, it will be SAP's Pierpaolo Vezzosi updating us on developments in the BI 4.2 semantic layer.

The semantic layer has always been one of the features that sets SAP BusinessObjects apart within the increasingly crowded BI space. Universes greatly simplify access to data by providing consistent, business-logic-friendly naming conventions across the enterprise data landscape.

The centrality of the semantic layer meant that it needed to be tweaked regularly to keep up with new BI requirements and technological developments, but there is only so much tweaking that a technology can take before it begins to become unwieldy. By the time SAP began to design BI 4, the semantic layer was perceived by some to be approaching those limits, and SAP undertook the task of redesigning the semantic layer from the ground up.

The new semantic layer was designed to support a clear vision of the future of SAP BusinessObjects, and new developments continue to build toward that vision. In our upcoming webinar, Pierpaolo will discuss progress toward that vision, and the road ahead.

Join us to catch a glimpse of the future.

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SAP Web Intelligence Update Webinar Summary

Groundhog Day 2017 was not particularly informative concerning the length of our Winter here in Canada. A recent study determined that the rodents have been right only 37% of the time over the past several decades, which isn't even randomly inaccurate.

However, Groundhog Day did bring us a wealth of information from Gregory Botticchio in the form of a webinar that highlighted advances in SAP Web Intelligence and the road ahead.

Gregory told us about WebI themes if BI 4.2:

• Building a Trusted Foundation - removing upgrade barriers with Linked Universes, and client improvements with Parallel Queries
• Enabling the Business - collaboration through Commentary and Shared Elements, client improvements through GeoMaps and Big Numbers, and unleashing the ecosystem through Visualization Extensions
• Leveraging the SAP Backend - SAP BW improvements with BEx-Authored Universes, and SAP HANA Enhancements with HANA Direct Access and HANA Online

These features were delivered in SP2, and enhanced in SP3 with:

• dHTML Catchup - striving to achieve parity with the Web Intelligence Java Applet (an ongoing project)
• Dynamic Input Controls - more than just cascading controls
• Sets - authoring sets in the Infromation Design Tool, using them to query data, and consuming them through universes
• Referenced Cells - using variables that return the value of a specified cell, maintaining the context of that cell, and listing referenced cells as Available Objects
• Commentary - improved usability and lifecycle; performance optimization
• Parallel Data Provider - parallel query support on BEx queries

When SP4 arrives later this year, it will launch a whole new set of Web Intelligence features that will improve Web Intelligence functionality and render the user experience more consistent with other SAP BusinessObjects solutions. 

SP 4 is scheduled to include:

• A New Viewer
• More dHTML Catchup
• New Chart Technology
• An SDK & Extensions

Click the link below to view the webinar on demand and listen to Gregory Botticchio, BI Product Manager, SAP, give us the lowdown on what's up next for SAP Web Intelligence

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Update: SAP Web Intelligence

Happy Groundhog Day!

Has it really been a year since APOS last hosted an SAP Web Intelligence Update webinar?

Yes it has.

Between then and now, SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 SP3 was released, bringing many of the features promised in that webinar to life, including:

• Java/DHTML Clients Parity
• Cascading Input Control
• Shared Elements
• Comments
• Parallel Queries

When SP4 arrives later this year, it will launch a whole new set of Web Intelligence features that will improve Web Intelligence functionality and render the user experience more consistent with other SAP BusinessObjects solutions.

History, as Mark Twain famously said, does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme, and we will soon have SAP's Gregory Botticchio, BI Product Manager, SAP, rhyming off what's new with WebI, as APOS hosts a new SAP Web Intelligence Update webinar. Sign up and listen to Gregory on Thursday, February 2 (Groundhog Day in the US and Canada), as he gives us the lowdown on what's up next for SAP Web Intelligence.

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Webinar - Advanced Monitoring for SAP BusinessObjects

Gone are the days when BI monitoring consisted of irate information consumers calling to complain about the report they didn't receive. BI has become central to 21^st Century enterprises, and BI monitoring strategies are evolving accordingly. The role of monitoring has increased, and will continue to increase, as BI becomes more central to informed management and operations, and to the financial well being of your organization.

An advanced monitoring strategy should provide you with the means to gauge the whole system health of your BI deployment, because it is no longer enough to know whether all servers are "dead or alive" and online, whether jobs have succeeded or failed, and whether critical services are running. There is so much more that you can know about your system from advanced monitoring methods, and so many ways in which advanced monitoring can make your proactive in delivering the best possible service to your information consumers.

Advanced monitoring techniques offer both a broader view of your deployment, covering a wide range of components and dependencies, and a more granular view, allowing you to act with confidence on the monitoring data you gather, and giving you a much better better picture of your system's health.

If advanced monitoring for SAP BusinessObjects is on your radar, join us to learn about developing a comprehensive and proactive monitoring strategy for your BI deployment.

What: Webinar - SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Monitoring
When: Thursday, January 19, 2017, 10 am / 2 pm EST

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SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Update Webinar with Frank Prabel & Gregory Botticchio

When: January 28, 2016, 10 am & 1 pm ET

APOS Systems will host this upcoming webinar featuring SAP Web Intelligence subject matter experts Frank Prabel and Gregory Botticchio. Web Intelligence is an integral part of the BI platform, which forms a trusted foundation for decision making across the enterprise. Join Frank and Gregory as they discuss new Web Intelligence features and the road ahead.

Features under discussion include:

•  Backend integration - direct access to SAP HANA, SAP HANA online mode
• Shared Elements - the ability to save report elements in the CMS repository for re-use
• Commentary - the ability to add, view, remove comments on Web Intelligence document
• Visualization Extensions - the ability to implement third-party visualizations

Please join us for this informative webinar.

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The webinar brings us full circle from last year's WIS Q & A event in which numerous SAP luminaries answered real-time questions about Web Intelligence, Lumira and the SAP Convergence Stratetgy.

Over the past year, we have expanded on many of the questions and answers delivered at the Q & A event in a series of blog posts on SCN, and recently we published the first of two summary posts on sap.com.

Webinar - Containing the Chaos - Overcoming SAP BI Administrative Challenges

Developing and implementing an agile content storage strategy for your SAP BI deployment is critical to the health of the system and to your ability to respond effectively to administrative challenges and compliance requirements.

The content in your BI deployment is an important asset, but it can also become a liability if there isn’t a strategy in place to control its growth, but often there is a significant volume of unnecessary content in the system, resulting in ‘content chaos’. This chaos only deepens as BI deployments grow and become more oriented toward ad-hoc, self-service reporting.

This potential for content chaos requires development of an agile approach to system storage, retention, and purging, including assessment of storage requirements, distillation of those requirements into rules, and organization and application of those rules within an agile system storage strategy.

In this webinar, we will look at the various challenges and costs of content chaos within the BI environment, how to develop a system storage strategy for overcoming that chaos, and how to make effective use of technologies which target the reduction and containment of chaotic content growth.

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Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) - Taming the Healthcare BI Administration Beast

What: Webinar - BI System Management Successes at
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)
When: October 14, 2015, 10 am / 2 pm ET
Guest Presenter: Ken Vincent, Senior Systems Analyst, OHSU
APOS Presenter: Fred Walther, Solution Consulting Manager, APOS Systems

If you didn't get a chance to see Ken Vincent tell his story at SABOC 2015, here's your chance to find out how OHSU achieved BI system management successes in:

•  Migration & Technology Adoption
• Meaningful Use & EHR Updates
• Governance & ICD-10
• Monitoring & Auditing

These areas have presented challenges for most SAP BusinessObjects platform managers and administrators in the healthcare sector, as they try to manage rapid change effectively, often with limited resources and short timelines.

How does OHSU measure success in BI system change management? Find out from Ken how rapid impact analysis, bulk administration, and robust monitoring and auditing led OHSU to significant time savings, efficient resource management and cost control, and fast BI system management ROI.

If you're like many healthcare BI platform managers and administrators, you have more BI system management questions than answers. Have your questions ready, because this session will include a live Q&A with Ken and APOS Solution Consulting Manager Fred Walther.

Can't attend the live webinar at either of the scheduled times? Register for the webinar and we'll send you a link to a recording of the webinar, so you can view it at your leisure and share it with your colleagues.

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SAP Design Studio Update Webinar

When: Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 - 10 am / 1 pm EDT
Guest Presenter: Ian Mayor, Product Manager, BI, at SAP
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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio lets you create scalable, multi-faceted visualizations for dashboards and BI apps, putting timely and actionable information at your decision makers' fingertips. SAP's Ian Mayor joins us to discuss new features in SAP Design Studio 1.5, including:

• Parallel queries
• Data Binding (lessening the need for sc ripting)
• New filtering components
• Export to Lumira

This webinar will also provide brief introductions to APOS Data Gateway and APOS Semantic Data Driver, two APOS products to help your organization in its adoption of Design Studio.

Please join us for this informative webinar.

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ICD-10 and Beyond - What Are the Key Drivers for Healthcare BI in mid-2015?

There are some consistent themes arising among our US healthcare customers. A common one is that BI platform managers and administrators in the healthcare industry are becoming more proactive in order to resolve numerous pressing issues.

There are regulatory issues (HIPAA, HITECH) and ICD-10 adoption issues There are issues with BI/EHR integration and with change management. And, of course, there is the ever-present issue of resource constraints.

One of our larger healthcare customers recently said they have managed to complete ICD-10 testing and adoption well before the October 2015 deadline, but I wonder, how is the rest of the industry doing? What is the current state of ICD-10 readiness?

In a 2014 survey on ICD-10 readiness by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA):

65% of respondents indicated that they could begin end-to-end testing prior to the fourth quarter of 2015, when compliance is set to begin. Of these, a majority (63%) will be ready to conduct testing in 2014, while the rest will wait until 2015.  Ten percent of all respondents currently have no plans to conduct end-to-end testing, and 17 percent don’t know when their organization will be ready for testing.

In general, the larger the healthcare organization, the more likely it is to be prepared, and to have end-to-end testing either already completed or in their plans prior to the adoption deadline. And the smaller the healthcare organization, the more likely it is to have resource constraints and knowledge limitations:

Organizations with no plans to conduct end-to-end testing often cited a lack of knowledge as the reason to forego testing (36%). Nearly half (45%) of these organizations are clinics/physician practices, possibly indicating a knowledge gap around ICD-10 implementation and testing for those organizations with fewer resources. By contrast, only two of the acute care hospitals responding to the survey had no plans for end-to-end testing.

The pyramids of Egypt are testament to what can be accomplished with a nearly unlimited supply of cheap or free labor, and larger healthcare organizations have been able to apply the necessary resources and the necessary knowledge to meet the deadline, but what about the rest of us? How can smaller healthcare organizations make the transition to ICD-10 comfortably?

When you don't have the resources, working smarter is the only practical alternative, and working smarter requires both a deeper knowledge of your deployment than is commonly available, as well as the ability to streamline and automate many of your BI workflows.

Lamont Parraway of LifeBridge Health joins us this afternoon (July 23, 2015, at 2 pm ET) for a webinar to discuss some of the biggest challenges he faces in managing the LifeBridge Health SAP BusinessObjects deployment. Attend the webinar to find out how he uses automation and deep system introspection to manage change, meet reporting needs, and reduce the load on IT resources.

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(Note: if you register but are unable to attend, we will send you a link to a recording of the webinar, which you can then enjoy and share at your leisure.)

Migration Webinar Today - Web Intelligence Update

When: Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 10 am / 4 pm EDT
Guest Presenter: Gregory Botticchio, Solution Manager, SAP

Our migration webinar series continues as SAP's Gregory Botticchio joins us to to provide an update on the latest news for Web Intelligence in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1. Gregory will discuss new and incremental features, and provide glimpse into coming capabilities. Join us to learn about:

• Performance improvements
• New customization capabilities
• Enhanced core capabilities

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SAP's Ian Treleaven: BI4 Sizing Guide Updated

Not long ago, SAP's Ian Treleaven was a guest presenter for two APOS migration-themed webinars on the subject of BI4 sizing:

• Platform Architecture and Sizing for SAP BusinessObjects BI 4
•  SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 Sizing Cases & Demos

We had such a great response to these webinars that we thought we should pass along Ian's message to us that the BI4 Sizing Guide has very recently been updated.

The new guide has many additions to help you get the architecture and sizing of your new BI4 deployment right, including:

• New content to help sizing and performance integration with HANA
• Tips to help you make the CMS run better
• Updated suggested limits for Web Intelligence
• Suggestions for periodic re-sizing
• Pre-sizing and post-sizing checklists to help you prepare for your sizing exercise

Make sure you also visit the companion Website, www.sap.com/bisizing, which also has some updates and new content to help you get your BI4.1 deployment running faster and leaner.

SAP BI 4 Virtualization Best Practices Webinar Alert

When: Jan. 15, 2014, 10 am / 4 pm EST
Another in our series of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 migration-focused webinars

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Guest presenter: Ashish C. Morzaria, Director, Solution Management,
Large Enterprise BI Group, SAP

Virtualization is key to the BI strategy of many organizations. However, the performance penalty for virtualization can be heavy, particularly if you neglect best practices. Some estimates have this virtualization performance hit as high as 40%.

But does virtualization necessarily mean a performance hit? A recent SAP study with VMware, SuperMicro, and SAP’s own Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) suggests the impact can actually be very close to zero — if you implement virtualization properly.

SAP's Ashish C. Morzaria aims to save you from the seemingly inevitable "virtualization tax." Join us as Ashish discusses specific requirements developed by SAP for virtualizing BI 4 and minimizing the impact of virtualization on BI 4 performance.

SAP BI 4 Migration Webinar Series

2013 is winding up, but our SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 migration focused webinar series continues into 2014 with great topics and great subject matter experts. Coming in the new year:

• Ashish C. Morzaria joins us to discuss System Virtualization in SAP BusinessObjects - Jan. 15, 2014
• Ian Mayor joins us to discuss Dashboards and Design Studio in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 - Jan. 23, 2014
• Mark Richardson joins us to discuss Mastering Volume and Complexity for Better Service - Feb. 5, 6, 2014

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All of the webinars in the series have been well attended and well received. If you missed any of the earlier sessions, you can view these recorded webinars at your leisure.

The earlier sessions included:

• The Semantic Layer and BI 4 Migration with Pierpaolo Vezzosi
• What's New in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 with Ty Miller
• The Business Case for Upgrading to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 with Saskia Battersby and Deepa Sankar
• Planning Your SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 Upgrade with JC Raveneau
• What's New in Web Intelligence in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 with Gregory Botticchio
• What's New in Crystal Reports for Enterprise in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 with Henry Kam
• Platform Architecture and Sizing for SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 with Ian Treleaven
• Guide to the SAP BI 4 DCP with Thomas Kuruvilla

We're busy firming up dates, guest presenters and topics for further sessions. If there are any topics you'd like to see us tackle in this webinar series, please feel free to let us know in the comments below.

Webinar Alert - Guide to the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 Desktop Intelligence Compatibility Pack (DCP)

What: Guide to the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 DCP Webinar
When: Nov. 21, 2013, 11 am EST
Eighth in a series of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 migration-focused webinars 
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Guest presenter:Thomas Kuruvilla, Solution Manager, SAP

With SAP BusinessObjects BI 4, Desktop Intelligence has been designated End of Life, and customers wishing to upgrade to BI 4 need to start planning the conversion from Desktop Intelligence to Web Intelligence. In recognition of the time and resources needed for this conversion, SAP has released the Desktop Intelligence Compatibility Pack (DCP) with SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1.

The DCP allows organizations with a large Desktop Intelligence investment to leverage that investment while realizing the benefits of BI 4.1 and planning an orderly conversion to Web Intelligence.

SAP's Thomas Kuruvilla joins us to discuss how to use the DCP to facilitate your organization's migration to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 while leveraging your existing Desktop Intelligence objects and content.

On the agenda:

·         Migrating your Desktop Intelligence reports to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1

·         Connecting Desktop Intelligence 3.1 desktop clients to an SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 CMS

·         Planning the conversion from Desktop Intelligence to Web Intelligence

Fred Walther, Manager of Solution Consulting at APOS Systems, will also be on hand to show you how APOS Migration Accelerator products can help you simplify and automate Desktop Intelligence use in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1.

Please join us for this informative webinar.

Webinar Alert: What's New in Crystal Reports for Enterprise in SAPBusinessObjects BI 4.1

When: Oct. 31, 2013, 10 am / 4 pm EDT - Tomorrow
Sixth in a series of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 migration-focused webinars

Guest presenter: Henry Kam, Solution Manager, Crystal Reports & BI Platform, SAP

Tomorrow's webinar is the sixth in our series of migration-focused webinars.

SAP Solution Manager Henry Kam joins us to discuss the features and benefits of Crystal Reports in SAP BusinessObjects 4.1. Find out what's new for the standard in pixel-perfect reporting.

The discussion will include topics such as:

• What’s new in SAP Crystal Reports for SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0?
• SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
• SAP Integration
• What’s new in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1?
• Upgrading

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Planning Your SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 Upgrade Webinar Q&A

We had a number of interesting questions and answers during our webinar sessions on September 19. Here they are for your convenience:

Q: If we are migrating from 4.0 to 4.1, should we export and import the content or does simply running the Upgrade Package serve the purpose of upgrading the server?
J.C. Raveneau: You would apply 4.1 on top of your BI 4.0 server. No need to move content around.

Q: Will the documentation be available on SAP for this presentation?
APOS: APOS will send you a link to a recording of the webinar tomorrow.

Q: Is there a white paper that describes the differences in best practices between 3.x and 4.x?
J.C.: You should go to www.sapbusinessobjects.com and get a personalized report generated. This will give you many good details.

Q: We use Java JDK extensively to automate our reports based on prudential specific calendar dates. We also use Java JDK to streamline/automate our deployment of reports so our tech staff does not have to interact with designer tools and keep track of which folders, categories, reports and universes. This is automated through JDK in XI r3.1. Will we still have functionality through JDK in BI 4.1?
J.C.: All SDK functionalities are there in BI 4, but there may be changes in the model so code adjustments are probably needed. Check http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-40754.

Q: Does BI 4.1 support installations on virtual servers?
J.C.: Yes. Check http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-41308.

Q: What about Crystal reports using Business Views. Will they also get upgraded to CR 2011?
J.C.: Yes.

Q: Do you have any comments regarding why we would want to go to 4.0 vs. 4.1 (or vice versa)?
J.C.: 4.1 is the latest and greatest. We have good feedback on stability. I would choose 4.1.

Q: While migration from 3.1 to 4.0, does the Upgrade Management Tool automatically convert UNV to UNX formats? Is it recommended to migrate Web Intelligence universes as UNV and continue to use Designer? And maybe after ensuring system stability, convert them to UNX?
J.C.: UNVs remain fully functional in BI 4 and not converted. Conversion can happen in a second stage either manually, or with the tool offered by APOS. The recommendation is to keep UNV as is in your upgrade project. Then upgrade to UNX to benefit from the new capabilities.

Q: Do we have to manually change each Web Intelligence report to point to UNX format if we convert UNVs at a later point?
J.C.: Check here: http://www.apos.com/content/bi4-webi-repointer

Q: Does the Upgrade Management Tool form SAP carry the instances from 3.1 to 4.0 automatically?
J.C.: Yes, if you select to do so in the UMT.

Q: Without using APOS Web Intelligence Converter, I am assuming that if we need to point Web Intelligence reports to UNX format, it needs to be done manually, and that there is no tool available from SAP?
J.C.: Correct.

As always, your comments and questions are welcome.

Webinar Q & A: The Business Case for Upgrading to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4

A number of great questions were raised and answered at our recent webinar on formulating your business case for upgrading to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4:

Q: What BusinessObjects reporting is available on iPad? WebI? Xcelsius? To what extent is this supported?

A: SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 5 supports all of the content types. Explorer is now included, as well as Dashboards (Xcelsius), Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, and Design Studio

Q: What are the new features of the UNX universe format?

A: The ability to handle multi-dimensional data sources and changes to the way data federation is done are some of the key new features. For more information, review our earlier webinar, "The SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 Semantic Layer & Migration," in which SAP's Pierpaolo Vezzosi provides a detailed discussion.

Q: Are all components of Dashboards/Xcelsius supported on the iPad? In earlier versions of 4.0, several components were not supported (e.g.: spreadsheets).

A: More connectivity options (i.e., not just UNX) have closed the gap considerably between what is available via the Web and via Mobile.

Thanks to SAP's Saskia Battersby and Deepa Sankar for being our guest presenters in this webinar, and for providing some insightful answers to our webinar attendees' questions.

Migration is this year's big story for the SAP BusinessObjects community. For more help in planning, preparing and achieving your migration, see our migration webinar series.

Upcoming Webinar: The Business Case for Upgrading to SAPBusinessObjects BI 4

When: July 11, 2013, 10am & 4pm EDT
Third in a series of migration-focused webinars hosted by APOS
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Guest presenters:
Saskia Battersby, General Manager, Solution Management, Agnostic BI Market Segment, SAP
Deepa Sankar, Director, BI Product Marketing, SAP

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In this webinar series, we've given you many technical reasons for adopting SAP BusinessObjects BI 4. Now SAP's Saskia Battersby and Deepa Sankar bring us a more business-oriented perspective on migration. They join us to discuss the business case for upgrading to BI 4.

We will discuss:

• The value SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 brings to your organization
• How it aligns with strategic business intelligence objectives
• How you can increase Return on Investment (ROI)
• How you can lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Please join us for this informative webinar.

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Webinar Alert: What's New in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1

When: June 13, 2013, 10am & 4pm EDT
Second in a series of migration-focused webinars hosted by APOS
Guest presenter: Ty Miller, Vice President, BI Solution Management, SAP

As Vice President, BI Solution Management at SAP, Ty Miller is responsible for SAP BusinessObjects strategic product management and market success. Ty joins us to discuss what's new in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1.

This is a timely event, as SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 entered its ramp-up phase on May 10, 2013, offering a range of new capabilities and opening up many new possibilities. This webinar will provide an overview of the important new technology advancements of BI 4.1, and describes how it is:

• One Suite for All Insight with improved interoperability between clients, unified mobile BI suite and new and improved SDKs
• One Place for All Information with connectivity to many new Big Data and exotic data sources
• One Standard for Enterprise BI with many new stability, migration, deployment, multi-tenant and localization capabilities

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