The Well Managed BI bog is now on the APOS website:
Monday, August 31, 2020
The APOS Well Managed BI Blog Has Moved!
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Customer Success – Santa Clara County SSA
The County of Santa
Clara's Social Services Agency (SSA) services 15 incorporated cities in the most populous county of the San
Francisco Bay area, which is home to California's Silicon Valley. The SSA uses
SAP BusinessObjects as its reporting engine, and relies on it to meet
regulatory requirements for it documents of record.
Santa
Clara County SSA’s Challenge
In preparation for an impending
migration, the SSA needed an inventory and deep knowledge of their SAP BI
system, how their reports were being used, and how those reports would be
impacted. While taking steps to streamline their content migration, the SSA
also had concerns about maintaining their documents of record and audit
readiness.
Santa Clara County SSA
implemented APOS Insight and APOS Storage Center
- Impact AnalysisThe SSA implemented APOS Insight to achieve awareness of reports, object usage and security profiles, and to understand the downstream impact of data modelling changes on reports.
- Migration ReadinessThe SSA used APOS Insight to inventory and analyze their SAP BI system content and usage. APOS Storage Center automation enabled system right-sizing and migration streamlining.
- Content RegulationThe SSA used APOS Storage Center to implement a content storage strategy that met their stringent regulatory requirements, safeguarded their content, and maintained audit readiness.
Feedback
Thinh Hong, Information System Manager at SSA Santa Clara County:
APOS Insight's impact analysis capabilities allow us to see
what effect changes to our data model will have downstream. It has allowed us
to analyze SAP BusinessObjects metadata effectively. APOS Storage Center provides us with an efficient, rules-based
means of cleaning up our BI environment, and the ease with which it allows us
to back up and selectively restore objects has been very useful.
Monday, July 27, 2020
BI & Analytics Business Cases in the Time of COVID-19
ASUG’S Undercover CIO
notes in Making
the Right IT Investments in Uncertain Times that the COVID-19 pandemic
has caused a shift in how CIOs determine the course of IT investments, citing
the ASUG
Pulse Check:
47% of
respondents said their organizations were not canceling any planned IT
initiatives, while nearly half (45%) shared that they are postponing a few
planned initiatives. The top reason respondents provided to explain these
cancellations was that these initiatives were not considered “core” projects.
Uncertainty has this
effect, and everyone wants to manage more efficiently and still be positioned
to hit the ground running when that uncertainty is resolved, which is why
streamlining is such a common theme:
...you need to
look at automation, as well as doing less with physical assets and more with
intelligent assets. Your business case for any project right now should be
about streamlining.
In BI & Analytics,
as elsewhere, streamlining means doing more with less, while ensuring your organization
is ready to meet an uncertain future.
Streamlining through
automation is a consistent theme throughout APOS Well Managed BI
& Analytics solutions. They let you take control of your deployments,
helping you to manage effectively in the present and prepare for what’s next.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018
APOS at TechEd 2018 Las Vegas
APOS COO Allan Pym gave
an interview at TechEd. He discussed the use of APOS solutions with SAP Analytics
Cloud, including:
- APOS Live Data Gateway - live data connectivity for SAP Analytics Cloud, Lumira, and Analysis Office
- APOS Publisher for Cloud - bursting and distribution for SAP Analytics Cloud
Have a look:
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Solution Spotlight - APOS Live Data Gateway
Unlock live data with the
APOS Live Data Gateway.
The APOS Live Data Gateway is a data connection and data transformation solution that enables live data connectivity for SAP BI solutions and expanded data source options
HANA is the model for SAP BI data connectivity. You know that SAP Lumira, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Analysis for Office connect live to HANA data. If it's a good idea to connect live to HANA, it's probably a good idea for these SAP BI solutions to connect live to other enterprise data sources.
Using the APOS Live Data Gateway for extended, live data connectivity lets you:
The APOS Live Data Gateway is a data connection and data transformation solution that enables live data connectivity for SAP BI solutions and expanded data source options
HANA is the model for SAP BI data connectivity. You know that SAP Lumira, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Analysis for Office connect live to HANA data. If it's a good idea to connect live to HANA, it's probably a good idea for these SAP BI solutions to connect live to other enterprise data sources.
Using the APOS Live Data Gateway for extended, live data connectivity lets you:
- Simplify user experience and data discovery
- Select data with greater flexibility
- Maintain current data in your SAP BI projects, without including the data in your project files, for stronger information governance and security
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Monday, November 13, 2017
Webinar - More SAP BI Distribution Options
In SAP BI 4.2, SP4,
you can experience a broad range of distribution options from within the BI
Launchpad interface. There is no need to go outside of the BI Launchpad
interface for new destination types, enhanced
print controls, greater encryption options, and a wider variety of format types, because
they are all available right there, at your fingertips, inside the BI Launchpad
interface.
Why do you need
enhanced distribution? Let's consider destination
types as an example.
Firstly, you need
enhanced destination types to be sure that you can push, pull, print or place
information to the appropriate destinations in your workflows. Appropriate
destinations are the ones that ensure the information is where it is needed,
and where it will do the most good.
Secondly, enhanced
destination types improve your ability to govern the flow of information,
ensuring that your business intelligence does not go where it shouldn't. Using
enhanced destination types improves information
governance, and contributes to the development of a culture of compliance.
Typically, your
distribution options will consist of BI Inbox, Email, FTP Server, File System,
or SFTP Server, but with the APOS Distribution Server / BI Launchpad integration, you will see a much greater variety of
destination types:
SAP takes great care
to promote the SAP Partner Ecosphere, because they know they will be much more
agile if they do not try to be all things to all organizations. Instead, they focus
on vision (the SAP BI Convergence strategy, for example), and on the core capabilities that enable that vision. If
you want to use SAP BusinessObjects in a novel or unique way, well, that's what
the SAP Partner Ecosphere is for.
The APOS Distribution Server / BI Launchpad integration is an outstanding example of SAP's commitment
to their customers through the SAP Partner Ecosphere, and an outstanding example
of the SAP Partner Ecosphere in action.
If you want to see
enhanced distribution in action, please tune in for our webinar:
Register for
this webinar
When: Wednesday, November 15, 2 pm EST
Enhanced Distribution & Integration
of BI Content into Business Workflows…
When: Wednesday, November 15, 2 pm EST
Enhanced Distribution & Integration
of BI Content into Business Workflows…
In this webinar, Jason Young of Computer Services Inc.
(CSI) joins us to describe how CSI used enhanced distribution techniques to
integrate SAP BusinessObjects into their core bank processing solution.
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Thursday, November 2, 2017
Webinar - Making SAP BI Administration Exciting
Well, okay, my title
may be overselling BI administration a tiny bit.
In fact, as BI topics
go, administration may seem one of the least exciting. But managing
administration tasks well is the
first step toward enabling the pursuit of all of those other, more exciting BI topics.
Many administrative
tasks can be both labor-intensive and time-sensitive, meaning that you need to
throw resources at the tasks to ensure timely fulfillment of service level
agreements with your information consumers.
The result is a double
dose of undesirable: your resource costs go up and you don't have the resources
to tackle initiatives with much higher ROI. You're paying more and getting less.
You're undermining your ability to deliver progressive BI capabilities to your
stakeholders, and as an unintended consequence, you're robbing them of competitive
advantage.
Without a progressive
approach to your BI platform, your management of administration tasks may just be
increasing the technical debt in that platform, and the vicious cycle continues.
Sorry, did I say I was
trying to make BI administration exciting?
I meant terrifying. The truth is that
most BI administration teams would prefer to live in less interesting times.
On November 2, 2017, we hosted a webinar that explores ways to automate and simplify the many
time- and labor-intensive SAP BI administrative tasks faced by administrators
on an ongoing and recurring basis. We looked at tips and techniques for
reducing, preventing and managing the many chaotic activities, events and
factors that drain your administrative resources and interfere with your
ability to deliver timely BI content to your information consumers.
Administrative difficulties arise from many
causes, including the volume and complexity of content, growing user
expectations, the proliferation of data sources, greater security, governance
and compliance requirements, and the rise of user-driven content. None of these
trends will make BI administration easier, but you can use the APOS Administrator
solution to automate and simplify the most resource-intensive administrative tasks,
and to liberate resources for progressive BI initiatives.
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