Webinar Recording: Well Managed Migration

In case you missed it last week, you can find the recorded Well Managed Migration webinar on our website.

Webinar Reminder: Well Managed Migration

When: Oct. 24, 2012, at 10am and 4pm EDT
Migration to SAP BI 4.0 from an earlier version of SAP Businessobjects has been a popular topic at the business intelligence events we've attended this year. If you missed our "Well Managed Migration" presentation at this year's ASUG BusinessObjects User Conference in Orlando, then here's your chance to catch up.
This webinar will help you establish some of the administrative and platform management best practices you will need to plan and manage the migration process. We will show how APOS solutions can help you before, during and after your migration. Our solutions complement and enhance SAP'S administrative and platform management capabilities, so you can migrate from a clean environment to a clean environment.
APOS has almost 20 years experience improving BI administration, performance and ROI. We know from that experience that our solutions can help you before, during and after the migration process, saving you both money and headaches.
Agenda:

• Before Migration – Clean up and back up before you move
• During Migration – Test, evaluate and tweak
• After Migration – Maintain your well managed BI

You should plan on attending this webinar if you are considering migrating or are currently planning to migrate your system to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0.

ASUG BusinessObjects User Conference 2012

We'll have a substantial presence at this year's ASUG BusinessObjects User Conference in Orlando, September 10 - 13. If you are attending, drop by and see us at Booth 100.

And don't miss our two presentations:

• Well Managed Migration: Learn techniques, strategies and tips for successful migration to the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 platform. APOS consultants will share insights from our 15+ years of migration consulting and BI solution development, and Mark Richardson of Rose-Richardson Enterprises will share his customer perspective on migration and the relevance of APOS Solutions.
   
• Geospatial BI 101 - a Primer for Mapping Your Route to a Successful Location Intelligence Deployment: Understand the technology and business potential of location intelligence, and what you have to do to make geospatial BI happen in your organization. Learn how to leverage geospatial technology and techniques to unlock new analysis and insight options with SAP BusinessObjects. Chris Hickman of Decision First Technologies joins APOS to present a series of use-case examples that will help participants understand the business value of deploying geospatial BI.

Well Managed Migration with APOS Solutions

From the frequent feedback and numerous requests we've received, it's clear what's on many of our customers' minds: migration. Specifically, migration to the new SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x platform.

SAP's instructions for migrating to its new version are deceptively simple. If you have any project management experience, you'll know that that apparent simplicity hides substantial complexity and many potential risks. For any enterprise softsware deployment or upgrad, risk mitigation has to be the primary objective.

How can you ensure your risks are low and your ROI is high?
APOS well managed BI solutions should be part of your SAP BusinessObjects risk mitigation strategy ‑ before, during and after the migration process. Together, these solutions form a suite of well managed BI solutions to help you perform due diligence with regard to the "5 pillars" of well managed BI:

• Strategy / Optimization
• Security
• Performance
• Operational Maintenance
• Compliance

The time to achieve well managed BI is before you migrate to BI 4.0 FP3, not after, and APOS has the solutions to help you plan, design, implement, cut over and go live effectively. The key to a successful migration is effective risk management. The more variables you account for during planning and design, the fewer deviations there will be from the project plan during and after implementation (and the more likely the project will be to come in on time and on budget). You mitigate risk by knowing your system, your requirements, and your capabilities prior to migration.

That's the role of APOS well managed BI solutions:

• APOS Insight ‑ benchmark and optimize performance, plan the target environment, compare security environments.
• APOS Storage Center ‑ safeguard object, instance integrity for audit and compliance; save to neutral formats; purge Web Intelligence reports intelligently; manage disc space.
• APOS Administrator ‑ clean up content; manage security and users; apply bulk operations on objects, instances, recurring schedules to simplify complex deployments.
• APOS Publisher ‑ develop enhanced information delivery capabilities ‑ advanced bursting, consolidation and document delivery based on business rules.