APOS Storage Center for Migration Released

APOS announced today the release of its Storage Center for Migration product. This product has been designed specifically to simplify and automate labor-intensive and time-intensive SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 migration tasks.

Using this product, users can back up and archive objects on the source system and restore them to the target system running SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 solutions while avoiding interruption to either system. It also lets users export instances to neutral formats such as PDF or XLS and restore that format to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 solutions instead of, or in addition to, the original format. This is useful for converting report instances from the source system before restoring them in a format that can be viewed by all users in SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 solutions.

The new product builds on the proven technology and success of the APOS Storage Center enterprise archive, backup, and selective restore solution for SAP BusinessObjects

Read the APOS Storage Center for Migration press release.

APOS Storage Center for Migration

Your content management strategy will be key to your migration success. The APOS Storage Center enterprise BI archive, backup and selective restore solution is a dependable and time-tested solution for SAP BusinessObjects.

Now available: APOS Storage Center for Migration, a product designed specifically to help you migrate your content seamlessly to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1. APOS Storage Center for Migration lets you archive reports and instances, save instances to multiple formats (including neutral formats), and works in conjunction with the DCP to help you leverage your Desktop Intelligence investment in BI 4.1.

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APOS Storage Center Integrates with KOM Networks' KOMpliance Secure Storage Solution

KOM Networks and APOS Systems today announced the integration of APOS Storage Center and the KOMpliance™ secure storage solution.

APOS Storage Center automates SAP® BusinessObjects™ archive, restore and migration processes allowing rules-based management of the document lifecycle while maintaining document integrity. KOMpliance patented technologies create secure WORM storage volumes using any HDD or SSD storage infrastructure enforcing data-at-rest security, data retention, authorized access and data integrity.

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Live Tweeting APOS #StorageCenter Webinar

I'll be live-tweeting this morning's Storage Center webinar using the hashtag #StorageCenter. The webinar gets under way at 10am, and will be repeated this afternoon at 4pm.

The webinar will discuss the place of robust archive, backup and selective restore capabilities in a well managed BI strategy for SAP BusinessObjects.

Register here.

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Healthcare Regulatory Compliance and APOS Storage Center

If you are a provider or payer in US Healthcare, your world has become radically more regulated over the past decade or so, thanks to several pieces of legislation, including:

• Privacy Act of 1974
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE 16)
• Financial Modernization (Gramm-Leach Bliley) Act of 1999 (GLBA)
• USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism)
• SOX, the U.S. Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection (Sarbanes-Oxley) Act of 2002

It's a complex landscape. In no other industry is data such an important asset, and yet such a potential liability. The regulatory burden and responsibility continues to grow for both providers and payers. As a BI platform manager in the healthcare industry, you need to be proactive about data governance.

APOS Storage Center can complement your SAP BusinessObjects system and help you with regulatory compliance through the following features:

• Rules-based backup, archive, versioning, and selective restore
• Offline and online archiving
• Extract and export
• Versioning, purging retrieving Web Intelligence reports
• System performance improvements

Being proactive about data governance means not waiting until you have a problem to have a solution in place. APOS Storage Center resolves SAP BusinessObjects document instance archive, backup and restore issues before they become security and regulatory compliance problems.

Webinar: Proactive Information Management for SAP BusinessObjects

Tuesday, February, 28, 2012, 10am ET and 4pm ET.

Register for the webinar.

Most organizations have important compliance and/or operational needs which require them to keep a long history of report instances. Every SAP BusinessObjects platform manager needs control and flexibility over report objects, instances and schedules.

The APOS Storage Center well managed BI solution streamlines administration workflows, minimizes the impact of human error, and gives you more flexibility and control over your SAP BusinessObjects deployment. Storage Center mitigates risk and delivers system storage efficiencies for improved system performance and usability. And it makes migrating your SAP BusinessObjects document instances significantly easier.

Please join us for a 45 minute webinar that focuses on the unique benefits of APOS Storage Center, and the flexible control options that it will provide for you. This webinar will provide a functional overview of the APOS Storage Center solution, including:

Archiving

• Business rules driven archive of report instance
• On-line and off-line archiving

Backup and Versioning

• Business rules driven backup of report instances
• Business rules driven backup of report objects with version controls

Selective Restore

• Restore specific objects without system downtime

Dynamic Exporting

• Conversion to neutral format and compression for long-term storage

Intelligent Purging

• Selective purging of instances from main environment

Product Pipeline: APOS Storage Center

Announcements from the APOS Development team on new APOS Storage Center features:

• Storage Center is now a 64-bit application
• Storage Center now lets you exclude unwanted folders from archiving rules at the CMS level.

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