This white paper discusses the challenges of managing large and complex business intelligence (BI) deployments. As BI adoption increases, deployments are growing larger in scale and more complex due to diverse user needs. This puts pressure on organizations to efficiently manage their BI platforms. The APOS Solutions enhance and extend the capabilities of the SAP BusinessObjects platform to help customers more efficiently operate, monitor, and administer their BI environments. Key benefits include reduced maintenance costs through automation, improved crisis management through enhanced monitoring and control, and increased end user productivity.
The document discusses new features and modules in Oracle's EPM System, including Hyperion Planning 11.1.2, Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management 11.1.2, and Hyperion Strategic Finance 11.1.2. Key updates include improved end user experience, workflow functionality, and Microsoft Office integration in Planning, as well as new budgeting and balance sheet planning modules. Profitability and Cost Management received enhancements to modeling, allocation definition, and reporting. Strategic Finance added extended analytics and expanded localization support.
The document provides a comparison of Oracle's Global Consolidation System (GCS) and Hyperion Financial Management (HFM). It finds that HFM uses more current and robust technology, including an n-tier architecture, that allows for widespread deployment and increased scalability. Maintenance is also deemed easier in HFM, as functions can be performed using the open and easy-to-learn VBScript rather than Oracle's PL/SQL. In conclusion, the document determines that HFM's architecture is technically superior to GCS based on its scalability and flexibility.
Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture and Service Oriented EnterpriseYan Zhao
The document discusses service oriented enterprise architecture (SOEA) and the service oriented enterprise (SOE). It defines SOEA as applying a service-oriented approach to enterprise architecture modeling and SOE as applying service orientation across all aspects of an enterprise's business management and IT operations. The document also outlines how SOEA relates to traditional enterprise architecture, describes elements of the SOE approach like service portfolio management and governance, and discusses how service orientation impacts an enterprise by introducing changes like shared services and a service lifecycle.
This whitepaper discusses how a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach can help build interoperability, agility, and flexibility in mission critical systems like Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) systems. SOA involves exposing independent application functions as reusable services that can be combined to create composite applications. This loose coupling allows systems to evolve incrementally. The paper provides an example of an SOA-based work order processing system that leverages existing applications from different vendors to create a centralized business process. Benefits of the SOA approach include effective reuse of enterprise components, increased interoperability, data standardization, and the flexibility to modify business processes over time.
The document discusses Oracle Fusion Applications' technical architecture. It describes a 3-tier logical architecture with client, application, and database tiers. The application tier is built on Oracle Fusion Middleware infrastructure services including identity management, business intelligence, and content management. It also utilizes components like the Applications Core for user experience and extensibility.
This document summarizes new features in Oracle's EPM products, including Hyperion Planning 11.1.2, Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management 11.1.2, and Hyperion Strategic Finance 11.1.2. Key features of Hyperion Planning 11.1.2 include enhancements to data form design, process management, end user experience, and SmartView for Microsoft Office. New modules like Public Sector Planning & Budgeting are also highlighted. Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management 11.1.2 includes improvements to the user experience and new functionality. Hyperion Strategic Finance 11.1.2 expands localization support and extended analytics capabilities.
Yan Zhao presents on service oriented enterprise architecture (SOEA). He discusses some of the challenges with traditional enterprise architecture (EA) modeling, stakeholder participation, maintenance and usage. SOA can help address these challenges by taking a more business-centric, service-oriented approach to modeling capabilities. Zhao outlines SOEA concepts including layered service components, domain segmentation, and service federation. He describes the benefits of SOEA such as increased business agility, reuse of existing assets, and reduced costs. Zhao also discusses SOEA governance and lifecycles to help manage services.
The document provides instructions for a presentation on Oracle's pre-built business intelligence (BI) applications. It outlines that the presentation is intended for an audience unfamiliar with pre-built BI solutions and their value. It encourages emphasizing the need for a comprehensive BI solution beyond just reporting. Additional slides cover the various Oracle BI application modules and presentations on related topics are also available.
The document discusses new features and modules in Oracle's EPM System, including Hyperion Planning 11.1.2, Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management 11.1.2, and Hyperion Strategic Finance 11.1.2. Key updates include improved end user experience, workflow functionality, and Microsoft Office integration in Planning, as well as new budgeting and balance sheet planning modules. Profitability and Cost Management received enhancements to modeling, allocation definition, and reporting. Strategic Finance added extended analytics and expanded localization support.
The document provides a comparison of Oracle's Global Consolidation System (GCS) and Hyperion Financial Management (HFM). It finds that HFM uses more current and robust technology, including an n-tier architecture, that allows for widespread deployment and increased scalability. Maintenance is also deemed easier in HFM, as functions can be performed using the open and easy-to-learn VBScript rather than Oracle's PL/SQL. In conclusion, the document determines that HFM's architecture is technically superior to GCS based on its scalability and flexibility.
Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture and Service Oriented EnterpriseYan Zhao
The document discusses service oriented enterprise architecture (SOEA) and the service oriented enterprise (SOE). It defines SOEA as applying a service-oriented approach to enterprise architecture modeling and SOE as applying service orientation across all aspects of an enterprise's business management and IT operations. The document also outlines how SOEA relates to traditional enterprise architecture, describes elements of the SOE approach like service portfolio management and governance, and discusses how service orientation impacts an enterprise by introducing changes like shared services and a service lifecycle.
This whitepaper discusses how a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach can help build interoperability, agility, and flexibility in mission critical systems like Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) systems. SOA involves exposing independent application functions as reusable services that can be combined to create composite applications. This loose coupling allows systems to evolve incrementally. The paper provides an example of an SOA-based work order processing system that leverages existing applications from different vendors to create a centralized business process. Benefits of the SOA approach include effective reuse of enterprise components, increased interoperability, data standardization, and the flexibility to modify business processes over time.
The document discusses Oracle Fusion Applications' technical architecture. It describes a 3-tier logical architecture with client, application, and database tiers. The application tier is built on Oracle Fusion Middleware infrastructure services including identity management, business intelligence, and content management. It also utilizes components like the Applications Core for user experience and extensibility.
This document summarizes new features in Oracle's EPM products, including Hyperion Planning 11.1.2, Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management 11.1.2, and Hyperion Strategic Finance 11.1.2. Key features of Hyperion Planning 11.1.2 include enhancements to data form design, process management, end user experience, and SmartView for Microsoft Office. New modules like Public Sector Planning & Budgeting are also highlighted. Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management 11.1.2 includes improvements to the user experience and new functionality. Hyperion Strategic Finance 11.1.2 expands localization support and extended analytics capabilities.
Yan Zhao presents on service oriented enterprise architecture (SOEA). He discusses some of the challenges with traditional enterprise architecture (EA) modeling, stakeholder participation, maintenance and usage. SOA can help address these challenges by taking a more business-centric, service-oriented approach to modeling capabilities. Zhao outlines SOEA concepts including layered service components, domain segmentation, and service federation. He describes the benefits of SOEA such as increased business agility, reuse of existing assets, and reduced costs. Zhao also discusses SOEA governance and lifecycles to help manage services.
The document provides instructions for a presentation on Oracle's pre-built business intelligence (BI) applications. It outlines that the presentation is intended for an audience unfamiliar with pre-built BI solutions and their value. It encourages emphasizing the need for a comprehensive BI solution beyond just reporting. Additional slides cover the various Oracle BI application modules and presentations on related topics are also available.
The document discusses business process maturity in SharePoint. It outlines a 5-level maturity model for business processes in SharePoint, from initial/loosely defined processes to optimized processes where users can adapt workflows on the fly. Case studies and examples are provided for each level to illustrate process maturity. Metrics on how maturity varies by years of use and number of users are also presented. The session aims to help participants benchmark their organization's process maturity.
153
مبادرة
#تواصل_تطوير
المحاضرة ال 153 من المبادرة
المهندس / محمد زكريا
أخصائي البنية المؤسسية والاستراتيجية الرقمي
بعنوان
"مقدمة عن البنية المؤسسية"
وذلك يوم الإثنين 21مارس 2022
الثامنة مساء توقيت القاهرة
التاسعة مساء توقيت مكة المكرمة
و الحضور عبر تطبيق زووم من خلال الرابط
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqcu-spjoiH902NOccdtAoNJnGQ35joBnv
علما ان هناك بث مباشر للمحاضرة على القنوات الخاصة بجمعية المهندسين المصريين
ونأمل أن نوفق في تقديم ما ينفع المهندس ومهمة الهندسة في عالمنا العربي
والله الموفق
للتواصل مع إدارة المبادرة عبر قناة التليجرام
https://t.me/EEAKSA
ومتابعة المبادرة والبث المباشر عبر نوافذنا المختلفة
رابط اللينكدان والمكتبة الالكترونية
https://www.linkedin.com/company/eeaksa-egyptian-engineers-association/
رابط قناة التويتر
https://twitter.com/eeaksa
رابط قناة الفيسبوك
https://www.facebook.com/EEAKSA
رابط قناة اليوتيوب
https://www.youtube.com/user/EEAchannal
رابط التسجيل العام للمحاضرات
https://forms.gle/vVmw7L187tiATRPw9
ملحوظة : توجد شهادات حضور مجانية لمن يسجل فى رابط التقيم اخر المحاضرة.
This paper introduces the notion of Inter-Enterprise Architecture (IEA) in response to the current evolution of business environment and landscape associated with the adoptions of common service, cloud computing, and social networking. The IEA describes the context, business environment, collaboration channels, partnership opportunities, influential components and relationships across enterprises and business organizations in selected business domain or service domain for a targeted enterprise or business organization(s). The IEA enables enterprises and business organizations to understand its position in currently connected and networked business world. Due to the open and dynamic nature of service adoption and collaboration, and the autonomy of current enterprise structure, culture, and operation environment, it is necessary to explore how business should be architected across boundaries to effectively response to the common service and collaboration environment.
End User Performance: Building and Maintaining ROIFindWhitePapers
The document discusses challenges that organizations face in consolidating business and IT functions, innovating business processes, and outsourcing processes using traditional ERP systems. Specifically, it notes that consolidation is difficult and expensive due to islands of automation with different technologies and proprietary code. Innovation is challenging because existing investments cannot be easily leveraged and specialized integration skills are required. Outsourcing processes also faces hurdles integrating systems outside the organization's boundaries. The document proposes that an enterprise services architecture may help address these issues.
This document discusses the evolving roles of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) systems and how their integration has become more important. While ERP focuses on execution and PLM focuses on innovation, the lines between them have blurred as PLM has expanded into more enterprise processes. The roles of each system have remained the same, with ERP managing business execution and PLM managing product innovation and development, but their integration has evolved significantly. Manufacturers can take an evolutionary approach to achieve an integrated ecosystem that spans the entire product lifecycle from innovation to execution.
Siemens IT Solutions and Services has successfully completed the transfer of responsibility for SAP Application Management from various CIO units of Siemens Russia to their own organization. They manage over 30 SAP systems supporting over 1,800 users across 4 Siemens companies in Russia. Siemens IT Solutions and Services is one of the top 10 outsourcing providers worldwide with proven experience in application management, a strong quality management system, and standardized processes and tools.
Delivering Operational Excellence with InnovationFindWhitePapers
Examine the trends in enterprise resource planning (ERP) that are driving businesses to adopt an enterprise services-oriented architecture (SOA). And learn how enterprise SOA can help your organization deliver operational excellence and realize new levels of innovation by enabling more responsiveness and agility.
Siemens IT Solutions and Services provides application management services to enable continual performance improvement and profitable growth for clients. Their services support, maintain, change, and enhance clients' core business applications. This helps clients realize more value from their IT investments by making business more efficient and profitable. Siemens has expertise across industries and can help clients manage complex, evolving application landscapes. They offer tailored application management through their global delivery model, which combines customer intimacy with industrialized service centers.
Oracle AIA - Does it deliver on it's integration promise? (whitepaper)Revelation Technologies
Oracle's Application Integration Architecture (AIA) is a framework that aims to simplify integration between disparate Oracle applications. It proposes standardized integration patterns, reusable integration components called Process Integration Packs, and a common data model using Enterprise Business Objects. While AIA provides useful tools and methodologies, a survey of Oracle experts found mixed results on whether it delivers on all its claims to reduce costs, risks, and complexity of integration. AIA is a legitimate approach, but achieving full benefits depends on how it is implemented in each organization.
The document outlines an enterprise architecture plan for Child-Wear, a children's clothing manufacturer. It includes a vision, mission, organizational structure, key stakeholders and systems, as well as an analysis of current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Gaps in existing systems are identified and an approach is outlined to address the gaps, including consolidating systems, integrating systems, allowing online ordering, and collaborating with suppliers. An information architecture with standard data elements and access controls is also proposed.
Optimized Business Processes in the Age of Cloud ComputingOracle Day
This document outlines a presentation on optimized business processes in the age of cloud computing. The presentation agenda includes strategically streamlining processes, processes in the world of fusion applications, managing processes anytime anywhere, and final thoughts. The document discusses how business process management (BPM) delivers value today and is designed for the future by adapting to new technologies like cloud computing which provides flexibility and scale. BPM can help automate and optimize processes to drive innovation and business agility.
The New Generation of IT Optimization and Consolidation PlatformsBob Rhubart
This document discusses Oracle's enterprise architecture approach and solutions. It begins with an overview of Oracle's results-driven enterprise architecture methodology. It then provides examples of enterprise architecture case studies involving IT optimization through portfolio rationalization, data center consolidation, and implementing shared services and cloud computing. The document discusses Oracle's enterprise architecture framework and process, and how Oracle guides customers' enterprise architecture efforts through strategic roadmapping and proven best practices.
The document discusses how service-oriented architecture (SOA) can help enterprise architecture (EA) practices. It proposes a service-oriented enterprise architecture (SOEA) model that represents architectures in a modular, layered manner using loosely coupled services. Applying SOA principles can help address common EA challenges by simplifying modeling, increasing stakeholder participation, and enabling flexible architecture maintenance and governance.
The document is a presentation by Siemens IT Solutions and Services about their application outsourcing services. It discusses their business model, delivery model, and why they are the right partner. Specifically, it highlights their global delivery network combining customer intimacy and scale, portfolio of application outsourcing offerings tailored to customers' needs, and approach of generating progressive business value through their application management roadmap.
This document summarizes the results of a survey about how businesses are using SharePoint. Over 2100 participants responded to questions about which versions of SharePoint they are using, how SharePoint is being used, the biggest challenges, satisfaction with training programs, and opinions on the user experience. Key findings include that more organizations are using SharePoint 2010 than 2007, and that content management, collaboration, and workflow are the most common uses. The biggest challenges are user adoption and training. Many organizations said they do not have training programs or are not satisfied with them. The majority said the user experience requires in-house design improvements.
The document discusses Oracle's strategy for modernizing Forms and Reports applications called "Protect, Extend, and Evolve". It recommends migrating to Oracle ADF or APEX for new development while continuing to support existing Forms applications. PITSS provides tools and services to analyze, optimize, and migrate Forms applications to technologies like ADF in order to reduce costs and timelines compared to a manual rewrite. The presentation provides an overview of PITSS products and services and examples of analyzing and migrating Forms applications.
Seven ROI Drivers for ERP Based on International Implementations of IFS Appli...IFS
This IDC White Paper summarizes the findings of seven case studies. Interviews
were conducted with Visy Paper (Australia), BW Offshore (Norway), Willamette Valley
Co (USA), Hertel Sealings (NL), Vitec Videocom (the UK), Powen Wafapumps
(Poland), and Grupo Farmasierra (Spain). IDC was given access to a key IT decision
maker within each company
Anthony Carrato S O A Business ArchitectureSOA Symposium
This presentation discusses developing service-oriented architectures (SOA) with a business focus. It recommends taking a top-down or meet-in-the-middle approach to identify business goals and processes and map them to candidate services. The presentation also covers SOA design best practices such as business component analysis, service-oriented modeling and architecture (SOMA), and using SOA to enable business process management. Finally, it discusses how IBM capabilities can support the various phases of SOA development from a business perspective.
Compasso is a Brazilian IT consulting firm specialized in Oracle products and services. They have expertise in custom application development, integration, testing, and implementation using Oracle's Application Integration Architecture (AIA). AIA provides a comprehensive SOA and BPM infrastructure for connecting applications and managing business processes. Compasso has experience delivering successful integration projects across many Oracle applications as well as third-party and legacy systems.
Cloud computing is being adopted rapidly today, fueled by the explosion in mobile devices. The car is the third-fastest-growing mobile 'device'. Mandated use of the Cloud by the American government is pushing even faster growth. The shift to electric vehicles adds even more urgency. Here is a view of how the car is becoming a moving information transceiver for the Cloud...a mobile sensor that feeds the Cloud. See also some work on a First Responder Test-Bed in Canada
Monitor your car from the cloud! DIY Telematics and the Internet of ThingsTom Gersic
My Dreamforce session on DIY Telematics for OBD-II with a Raspberry Pi.
What if your car was connected to the Cloud, and had been logging sensor data for the past 30 days? What if it could automatically file a Case with your local dealership with the Diagnostic Trouble Codes from your car and all that log data attached? What if the Service department could give you a call to schedule an appointment to get it fixed, so you don’t even have to remember to call them? Since they have all the automotive log information they need to diagnose the problem before you even show up, they can even tell you what’s wrong over the phone and quote you an estimate for the repair.
Here’s a Raspberry Pi DIY project that does just that.
More info at: http://gersic.com/ive-connected-my-car-to-salesforce-com/
The document discusses business process maturity in SharePoint. It outlines a 5-level maturity model for business processes in SharePoint, from initial/loosely defined processes to optimized processes where users can adapt workflows on the fly. Case studies and examples are provided for each level to illustrate process maturity. Metrics on how maturity varies by years of use and number of users are also presented. The session aims to help participants benchmark their organization's process maturity.
153
مبادرة
#تواصل_تطوير
المحاضرة ال 153 من المبادرة
المهندس / محمد زكريا
أخصائي البنية المؤسسية والاستراتيجية الرقمي
بعنوان
"مقدمة عن البنية المؤسسية"
وذلك يوم الإثنين 21مارس 2022
الثامنة مساء توقيت القاهرة
التاسعة مساء توقيت مكة المكرمة
و الحضور عبر تطبيق زووم من خلال الرابط
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqcu-spjoiH902NOccdtAoNJnGQ35joBnv
علما ان هناك بث مباشر للمحاضرة على القنوات الخاصة بجمعية المهندسين المصريين
ونأمل أن نوفق في تقديم ما ينفع المهندس ومهمة الهندسة في عالمنا العربي
والله الموفق
للتواصل مع إدارة المبادرة عبر قناة التليجرام
https://t.me/EEAKSA
ومتابعة المبادرة والبث المباشر عبر نوافذنا المختلفة
رابط اللينكدان والمكتبة الالكترونية
https://www.linkedin.com/company/eeaksa-egyptian-engineers-association/
رابط قناة التويتر
https://twitter.com/eeaksa
رابط قناة الفيسبوك
https://www.facebook.com/EEAKSA
رابط قناة اليوتيوب
https://www.youtube.com/user/EEAchannal
رابط التسجيل العام للمحاضرات
https://forms.gle/vVmw7L187tiATRPw9
ملحوظة : توجد شهادات حضور مجانية لمن يسجل فى رابط التقيم اخر المحاضرة.
This paper introduces the notion of Inter-Enterprise Architecture (IEA) in response to the current evolution of business environment and landscape associated with the adoptions of common service, cloud computing, and social networking. The IEA describes the context, business environment, collaboration channels, partnership opportunities, influential components and relationships across enterprises and business organizations in selected business domain or service domain for a targeted enterprise or business organization(s). The IEA enables enterprises and business organizations to understand its position in currently connected and networked business world. Due to the open and dynamic nature of service adoption and collaboration, and the autonomy of current enterprise structure, culture, and operation environment, it is necessary to explore how business should be architected across boundaries to effectively response to the common service and collaboration environment.
End User Performance: Building and Maintaining ROIFindWhitePapers
The document discusses challenges that organizations face in consolidating business and IT functions, innovating business processes, and outsourcing processes using traditional ERP systems. Specifically, it notes that consolidation is difficult and expensive due to islands of automation with different technologies and proprietary code. Innovation is challenging because existing investments cannot be easily leveraged and specialized integration skills are required. Outsourcing processes also faces hurdles integrating systems outside the organization's boundaries. The document proposes that an enterprise services architecture may help address these issues.
This document discusses the evolving roles of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) systems and how their integration has become more important. While ERP focuses on execution and PLM focuses on innovation, the lines between them have blurred as PLM has expanded into more enterprise processes. The roles of each system have remained the same, with ERP managing business execution and PLM managing product innovation and development, but their integration has evolved significantly. Manufacturers can take an evolutionary approach to achieve an integrated ecosystem that spans the entire product lifecycle from innovation to execution.
Siemens IT Solutions and Services has successfully completed the transfer of responsibility for SAP Application Management from various CIO units of Siemens Russia to their own organization. They manage over 30 SAP systems supporting over 1,800 users across 4 Siemens companies in Russia. Siemens IT Solutions and Services is one of the top 10 outsourcing providers worldwide with proven experience in application management, a strong quality management system, and standardized processes and tools.
Delivering Operational Excellence with InnovationFindWhitePapers
Examine the trends in enterprise resource planning (ERP) that are driving businesses to adopt an enterprise services-oriented architecture (SOA). And learn how enterprise SOA can help your organization deliver operational excellence and realize new levels of innovation by enabling more responsiveness and agility.
Siemens IT Solutions and Services provides application management services to enable continual performance improvement and profitable growth for clients. Their services support, maintain, change, and enhance clients' core business applications. This helps clients realize more value from their IT investments by making business more efficient and profitable. Siemens has expertise across industries and can help clients manage complex, evolving application landscapes. They offer tailored application management through their global delivery model, which combines customer intimacy with industrialized service centers.
Oracle AIA - Does it deliver on it's integration promise? (whitepaper)Revelation Technologies
Oracle's Application Integration Architecture (AIA) is a framework that aims to simplify integration between disparate Oracle applications. It proposes standardized integration patterns, reusable integration components called Process Integration Packs, and a common data model using Enterprise Business Objects. While AIA provides useful tools and methodologies, a survey of Oracle experts found mixed results on whether it delivers on all its claims to reduce costs, risks, and complexity of integration. AIA is a legitimate approach, but achieving full benefits depends on how it is implemented in each organization.
The document outlines an enterprise architecture plan for Child-Wear, a children's clothing manufacturer. It includes a vision, mission, organizational structure, key stakeholders and systems, as well as an analysis of current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Gaps in existing systems are identified and an approach is outlined to address the gaps, including consolidating systems, integrating systems, allowing online ordering, and collaborating with suppliers. An information architecture with standard data elements and access controls is also proposed.
Optimized Business Processes in the Age of Cloud ComputingOracle Day
This document outlines a presentation on optimized business processes in the age of cloud computing. The presentation agenda includes strategically streamlining processes, processes in the world of fusion applications, managing processes anytime anywhere, and final thoughts. The document discusses how business process management (BPM) delivers value today and is designed for the future by adapting to new technologies like cloud computing which provides flexibility and scale. BPM can help automate and optimize processes to drive innovation and business agility.
The New Generation of IT Optimization and Consolidation PlatformsBob Rhubart
This document discusses Oracle's enterprise architecture approach and solutions. It begins with an overview of Oracle's results-driven enterprise architecture methodology. It then provides examples of enterprise architecture case studies involving IT optimization through portfolio rationalization, data center consolidation, and implementing shared services and cloud computing. The document discusses Oracle's enterprise architecture framework and process, and how Oracle guides customers' enterprise architecture efforts through strategic roadmapping and proven best practices.
The document discusses how service-oriented architecture (SOA) can help enterprise architecture (EA) practices. It proposes a service-oriented enterprise architecture (SOEA) model that represents architectures in a modular, layered manner using loosely coupled services. Applying SOA principles can help address common EA challenges by simplifying modeling, increasing stakeholder participation, and enabling flexible architecture maintenance and governance.
The document is a presentation by Siemens IT Solutions and Services about their application outsourcing services. It discusses their business model, delivery model, and why they are the right partner. Specifically, it highlights their global delivery network combining customer intimacy and scale, portfolio of application outsourcing offerings tailored to customers' needs, and approach of generating progressive business value through their application management roadmap.
This document summarizes the results of a survey about how businesses are using SharePoint. Over 2100 participants responded to questions about which versions of SharePoint they are using, how SharePoint is being used, the biggest challenges, satisfaction with training programs, and opinions on the user experience. Key findings include that more organizations are using SharePoint 2010 than 2007, and that content management, collaboration, and workflow are the most common uses. The biggest challenges are user adoption and training. Many organizations said they do not have training programs or are not satisfied with them. The majority said the user experience requires in-house design improvements.
The document discusses Oracle's strategy for modernizing Forms and Reports applications called "Protect, Extend, and Evolve". It recommends migrating to Oracle ADF or APEX for new development while continuing to support existing Forms applications. PITSS provides tools and services to analyze, optimize, and migrate Forms applications to technologies like ADF in order to reduce costs and timelines compared to a manual rewrite. The presentation provides an overview of PITSS products and services and examples of analyzing and migrating Forms applications.
Seven ROI Drivers for ERP Based on International Implementations of IFS Appli...IFS
This IDC White Paper summarizes the findings of seven case studies. Interviews
were conducted with Visy Paper (Australia), BW Offshore (Norway), Willamette Valley
Co (USA), Hertel Sealings (NL), Vitec Videocom (the UK), Powen Wafapumps
(Poland), and Grupo Farmasierra (Spain). IDC was given access to a key IT decision
maker within each company
Anthony Carrato S O A Business ArchitectureSOA Symposium
This presentation discusses developing service-oriented architectures (SOA) with a business focus. It recommends taking a top-down or meet-in-the-middle approach to identify business goals and processes and map them to candidate services. The presentation also covers SOA design best practices such as business component analysis, service-oriented modeling and architecture (SOMA), and using SOA to enable business process management. Finally, it discusses how IBM capabilities can support the various phases of SOA development from a business perspective.
Compasso is a Brazilian IT consulting firm specialized in Oracle products and services. They have expertise in custom application development, integration, testing, and implementation using Oracle's Application Integration Architecture (AIA). AIA provides a comprehensive SOA and BPM infrastructure for connecting applications and managing business processes. Compasso has experience delivering successful integration projects across many Oracle applications as well as third-party and legacy systems.
Cloud computing is being adopted rapidly today, fueled by the explosion in mobile devices. The car is the third-fastest-growing mobile 'device'. Mandated use of the Cloud by the American government is pushing even faster growth. The shift to electric vehicles adds even more urgency. Here is a view of how the car is becoming a moving information transceiver for the Cloud...a mobile sensor that feeds the Cloud. See also some work on a First Responder Test-Bed in Canada
Monitor your car from the cloud! DIY Telematics and the Internet of ThingsTom Gersic
My Dreamforce session on DIY Telematics for OBD-II with a Raspberry Pi.
What if your car was connected to the Cloud, and had been logging sensor data for the past 30 days? What if it could automatically file a Case with your local dealership with the Diagnostic Trouble Codes from your car and all that log data attached? What if the Service department could give you a call to schedule an appointment to get it fixed, so you don’t even have to remember to call them? Since they have all the automotive log information they need to diagnose the problem before you even show up, they can even tell you what’s wrong over the phone and quote you an estimate for the repair.
Here’s a Raspberry Pi DIY project that does just that.
More info at: http://gersic.com/ive-connected-my-car-to-salesforce-com/
connected car is mobile, social, big data, cloudJoe Speed
from my 5 star rated session at the IOD `13 Big Data convention. Aso demo'd QNX's show car with MQTT, MessageSight, Worklight, Big Data Streams, Predictive Maintenance PMQ, Node-RED on Softlayer cloud.
Recent webinar where I discuss most of these topics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8iu-bs3T9Q?t=24m25s
blog http://mobilebit.wordpress.com twitter at @mobilebit https://twitter.com/MobileBit
Microsoft patent application US20150262486 and patents US9092984 and US9218740 illustrate a cloud computing service to assist drivers with respect to improving driver safety. The cloud-based driver assistive system can warn drivers upon impending collisions.
Ford is exploring opportunities in connected vehicles and mobility services by developing an open platform strategy. Their Sync platform allows third-party developers to create apps that integrate with vehicle infotainment systems. Ford has also open-sourced Sync to encourage more development. This ecosystem approach aims to resolve uncertainty about user needs through experimentation and partner innovation. It also positions Ford's vehicles and data as part of larger information networks and mobility services.
The document discusses a new product launch for a company. It outlines key details of the launch including the date, location, target audience, and goals of driving brand awareness and sales. Sample marketing materials and messaging are provided to help promote the event.
Driving the Road to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) EMC
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is often regarded as the next frontier of Cloud Computing. PaaS allows application developers to write software that leverages a common set of powerful services like caching and queuing. It also enables deployment of code in a highly automated fashion, without the typical overhead associated with configuration and packaging. PaaS lets you speed up SDLC and deliver elastically scalable and operationally efficient platforms to run data intensive applications. VMware vFabric along with Cloud Foundry is becoming a de facto standard for how to do all of this. Using real-world examples and demonstrations we share with you a roadmap to next-generation Cloud-Enabled applications using VMware and EMC technologies.
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3. Driving Efficient Management of the BI Platform
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................ 4
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 5
Challenges of BI Adoption and Utilization ............................................................................................ 5
Size of BI Deployments........................................................................................................................................................ 5
Complexity of BI Deployments .......................................................................................................................................... 6
Impact of BI Deployments .................................................................................................................................................. 6
Expectations of BI Deployments........................................................................................................................................ 6
APOS Solutions for Growing BI Challenges .......................................................................................... 7
Enhancing the Platform........................................................................................................................................................ 7
Extending the Platform......................................................................................................................................................... 7
Impact of APOS Solutions ...................................................................................................................... 8
Operational Maintenance Efficiencies................................................................................................................................ 8
Crisis Management................................................................................................................................................................. 9
Migrations ............................................................................................................................................................................. 10
End-User Productivity ........................................................................................................................................................ 10
Summary ................................................................................................................................................12
Customer Implementations ...................................................................................................................13
The Partnerships ....................................................................................................................................13
APOS Systems Inc............................................................................................................................................................... 13
SAP BusinessObjects .......................................................................................................................................................... 13
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Helping over 750 SAP BusinessObjects customers globally, APOS Solutions enhance and
extend the SAP BusinessObjects software platform. By enabling deeper control over system
monitoring, administration, deployment and integration, APOS Solutions yield lower TCO
and higher ROI for SAP BusinessObjects deployments. APOS delivers solutions for
advanced system management (APOS Administrator), system monitoring and auditing
(APOS Insight), report and object back-up/archive/restore (APOS Storage Center), report
bursting and distribution (APOS Publisher), integration with Microsoft Outlook, and
integration with ESRI GIS mapping solutions. APOS has been awarded the SAP
BusinessObjects ‘Technology Partner of the Year’ award for 2006, 2007, and 2008.
The focus of this white paper is to clarify key value drivers and points of impact which the
APOS Solutions bring to SAP BusinessObjects deployments. This document is divided into
three main sections:
1) Challenges of BI Adoption and Utilization
The initial focus of this document is to outline key trends impacting the execution and
management of BI deployments, and related challenges that have arrived due to those
forces. These trends and challenges are discussed in the context of Size of BI Deployments,
Complexity of BI Deployments, Impact of BI Deployments, and Expectations of BI
Deployments.
2) APOS Solutions for Growing BI Challenges
The second section of this white paper looks at key conceptual themes of how the APOS
Solutions bring value to the SAP BusinessObjects platform, and distinguishes value points in
the context of both a) enhancing the platform, and b) extending the platform.
3) Impact of APOS Solutions
The final section of the document looks at the specific elements of where APOS Solutions
are impacting and reducing the TCO of SAP BusinessObjects deployments. Primary areas
discussed are:
Operational maintenance efficiencies
Crisis management
Migration efficiencies
End-user productivity
Reduced infrastructure
Reduced IT opportunity costs
Reduced IT staff turnover
Compliance initiatives
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INTRODUCTION
A recent global survey of over 1,500 CIOs resulted in a respondent ranking of business
intelligence (BI) as their top technology priority. In many respects this is not a surprising
revelation, given the positive impact that business intelligence solutions have been
delivering, but it does reveal how far these technologies have come in their acceptance and
deployment levels over the past decade. For many organizations, ‘BI’ was very much an
unknown acronym just a few short years ago, while today these same organizations are now
relying on BI technologies for the provision of information that drives strategic and
operational decisions at all levels. Business Intelligence is now an ‘enterprise’ platform
technology for an important percentage of organizations. As with all such technology
platforms, significant levels of resources are applied behind the scenes in the execution and
management of these environments.
CHALLENGES OF BI ADOPTION AND UTILIZATION
The increased adoption and utilization of BI has resulted in better informed decision
making, which is in turn driving more efficient and effective organizations, but these
benefits are accompanied by heavy responsibilities and challenges. Deployment size,
complexity, impact and expectation are critical factors behind these responsibilities and
challenges, and we can view these factors in the context of the related supply-side and
demand-side drivers.
SIZE OF BI DEPLOYMENTS
Demand: Dramatically more users, departments, divisions, customers, suppliers,
stakeholders are signing on to utilize decision making content supplied via business
intelligence deployments. While BI usage level profiles range significantly from heavy users,
to moderate users, to light users, the cumulative effect of all these user groups is weighty and
broad in scope. Even with significant increases in both the volume of users and the volume
of content during the past few years, all signs suggest that most organizations are still in the
relatively early stages of BI platform utilization.
Supply: The underlying infrastructure, security, and content management requirements
grow proportionally with the user and content demands. Larger, more powerful server
environments are required to meet these demands. There are more BI user accounts, group
accounts, report objects, report instances, servers, services, etc. to manage and interact with
— this causes a proportional growth in the human resources required to care for and feed
these growing demands. This growth in human resource requirement is not limited to the
direct administrators of the BI system, but also to those teams which are responsible for
supporting database, network, security, web and application-layer deployments which are all
dependencies to making the business intelligence system successful.
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COMPLEXITY OF BI DEPLOYMENTS
Demand: As user volume and project/departmental volume increases, there is a significant
increase in the unique requirements that come from the various users, groups departments
and projects. Many organizations are moving towards the consolidation of multiple
departmental deployments of BI systems into a single ‘shared services’ environment, where a
single business intelligence deployment serves the diverse BI needs of a broad range of
departments and projects within their organization.
Supply: The result of this trend is a multiplier effect on system management efforts due to
complexity factors that result, such as distinct processing schedules, system objects, and
security needs, metered system usage, and intricate data, application and platform integration
needs. All of these complexities are driven by the diverse end user community. In order to
manage the pressures resulting from these additional complexities, further human resources
must be directed to accommodate and care for this environment and its related platforms
and technologies.
IMPACT OF BI DEPLOYMENTS
Demand: BI is driving better decision making at all levels and in more departments of
organizations. This valuable benefit is accompanied with the significant responsibility of
fulfilling the information needs for these operational and strategic decision-making
scenarios, and the direct link to the financial impact of these decisions. Whether it is a team
of front line service employees making daily operational decisions, a hallmark customer
accessing sensitive account statements, or senior management making critical strategic
planning decisions, the information supplied through BI platforms has a dramatic and
growing financial impact.
Supply: Quite simply, the stakes of a successful BI platform are getting much higher, and
those with responsibility for managing and maintaining this environment recognize this and
feel the mounting pressure of this responsibility. These pressures are driving CIOs and
managers to compensate by applying additional human, system and IT resources in order to
successfully fulfill their mandate. Their approach becomes focused on making sound
decisions on the most efficient resources to apply, as well as utilizing strategies and
technologies to minimize risks.
EXPECTATIONS OF BI DEPLOYMENTS
Demand: With the increased pressure on BI due to its growing financial impact, clearly it
becomes critical that information must be available to decision makers when and where they
need it. The timing of business decisions does have segments of predictable needs such as
month, quarter and year-end reporting; however, BI systems are feeding information
stretching far beyond those traditional operational and financial reporting cycles. It is now
becoming critical that BI systems are ready and accessible to meet user needs at any time,
and tolerance of the end user community for the BI system being ‘offline’ is declining
rapidly.
Supply: Ongoing, continual and rapid accessibility to information is quickly becoming the
expectation of BI end users, and the satisfaction criteria that BI system owners are measured
against. Losing the trust and engagement of the end user community is very difficult to
recover from, and critical to avoid. For many IT organizations, service level agreements for
BI deployments are becoming common place, and often have financial penalties related to
underperformance. However, for those organizations that do not have formal SLA
agreements in place, the unwritten expectations of the BI constituents are equally
motivating. Where those constituents are end customers of the organization, that
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motivation is even further amplified. As with the financial impact factors noted above, the
heightened expectations of BI users drive CIOs and managers to compensate by applying
additional resources to mitigate risks. In many cases this means additional human resources,
but for matters such as rapid response and recovery to system emergencies this more
commonly requires that enhanced technology resources be applied.
In summary, the demand-side drivers of size, complexity, impact and expectation are clearly
propelling supply-side requirements for human, system, and technology resources to be
applied to the BI infrastructure. However, like most areas of business operations, BI
resources are under constraint and must be managed efficiently, and the Total Cost of
Ownership (TCO) of the BI deployment must be optimized. SAP BusinessObjects
Software deployment managers, specifically, are under these same pressures to optimize the
TCO of their deployment.
APOS SOLUTIONS FOR GROWING BI CHALLENGES
Like many other successful technology vendors, SAP has a vibrant partner ecosystem, and
third party solutions have been created around the core SAP BusinessObjects platform to
build on TCO optimization. This is exactly the mandate which APOS Solutions have been
delivering on since 1998. By focusing on 1) enhancing the core SAP BusinessObjects
platform and 2) extending that platform, APOS Solutions deliver value through power
administration and management, platform monitoring, system auditing, report publishing,
and content archiving.
ENHANCING THE PLATFORM
In many cases, APOS Solutions build on the inherent administration and management
capabilities of the SAP BusinessObjects platform, dramatically enhancing functionality and
control. Key concepts for APOS Solutions are providing functionality and automation that
enables streamlined system administrator resources to manage and control high volumes of
BI-related system settings, services, users, groups, objects, schedules, and security. Not only
is volume of control a significant theme, but depth of granular control of the BI system is
also a key benefit. As well, there are important reliability gains due to reductions in human
errors resulting from automating repeatable tasks which are otherwise prone to errors and
mistakes. The automation, volume of throughput and depth of control provided by APOS
Solutions enable valuable IT resources to manage the environment dramatically faster,
helping to achieve the response times for ongoing maintenance and emergency resolution
that is being driven by rising user expectations.
EXTENDING THE PLATFORM
In addition to enhancing existing platform capabilities, APOS Solutions also bring various
facilities and feature sets that are not offered in any manner within the core platform. These
platform extensions bring added competencies to the administration, management and
monitoring of the SAP BusinessObjects deployment, and also provide added capabilities
within the solutions that are deployed to end users. A more efficiently managed platform
with extended insight, control and performance all yield greater satisfaction and productivity
in the end user community.
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IMPACT OF APOS SOLUTIONS
When customers review the impact that APOS Solutions have on their SAP
BusinessObjects deployment, there are several factors to be considered. Key factors that
can be measured for financial impact include operational maintenance efficiencies, crisis
management, migration influence and end-user productivity influence.
OPERATIONAL MAINTENANCE EFFICIENCIES
The ongoing care and feeding of an SAP BusinessObjects deployment requires commitment
of various resources. Human resources are a very significant portion of that equation, and
APOS Solutions allow system administrators to be much more efficient and effective in
their tasks, enabling platform owners to be more efficient in how they allocate and manage
their valuable IT human resources. The efficiency and effectiveness of IT human resources
is derived from APOS Solutions in the areas of regular maintenance, system reliability, and
system optimization.
Regular Maintenance:
As noted earlier, APOS Solutions enable faster, deeper, higher volume control over the SAP
BusinessObjects environment and administration tasks. Quite simply, APOS Solutions
allow system administrators to address their ongoing, regular maintenance activities in
dramatically less time, compared to using the administration capabilities provided with the
core SAP BusinessObjects solution. Some examples of areas where dramatic system
maintenance time savings can be realized are:
scheduling and rescheduling
report instance management
system object management and maintenance
report object setting maintenance
report object management, maintenance and promotion
universe management, maintenance, and promotion
user and user group security maintenance
automated report instance archiving
data source maintenance
automated platform service monitoring
For these examples and for many other regular maintenance tasks, reductions in operator
time requirements yield direct cost savings and a resulting reduction of TCO of the
platform.
System Reliability:
During the course of regular maintenance tasks, system administrators are engaged in
various tasks which require their manual translation, input, and execution. In many cases
these are manual tasks that are better served via automation to reduce or eliminate the
unnecessary operator time consumed in the preparation, input and execution steps.
However, an additional challenge exists in the form of the significant and unnecessary
operator time consumed in recovering from human errors, which are a certainty to occur
during these detailed manual processes. While matters of end-user productivity are certainly
impacted by system reliability, the focus of this section is on system administrator time
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savings. APOS Solutions provide unique methodologies and automation that directly
reduces the time required for troubleshooting and recovery from improperly executed
maintenance tasks.
System Optimization:
As noted above, there are various pressures around maximizing content throughput,
minimizing infrastructure resources, and optimizing processing cycles. These pressures
drive system administrators to spend significant effort in developing and executing steps and
methods for tracking information related to system users, usage patterns, performance,
security, available content and capacity planning, all in an effort to better understand the
status of their system and take steps to optimize. In many cases, these information
gathering steps are very time consuming to follow, and for many scenarios the information
that is inherently available lacks the quality and depth desired for optimized decision making.
APOS Solutions provide unique facilities, methods and automation which deliver both the
quality and depth of system information desired, as well as significantly reducing the level of
operator time involved in doing so. The result is proper insight into the system to assess
health status, bottlenecks and resource opportunities; this enables the administration team to
predict and resolve problems in advance of manifestation, and take action on balancing and
optimizing system resources.
CRISIS MANAGEMENT
During the course of any year, most SAP BusinessObjects deployments will experience a
number of unplanned interruptions. These unplanned interruptions can range from a
moderate disruption in functioning due to the failure of one or more system services, to a
full-scale and extended failure of the platform due to collapse of a physical server. While
many other unplanned interruptions can transpire, the fact is that these scenarios will
certainly occur for most deployments, with considerable costs incurred as a result of these
events. The costs most commonly incurred are human resource costs due to administrator
overtime, external consultant assistance and the cost of supporting staff from other areas
within IT — DBA, network, security, infrastructure, web, applications and project
management personnel may be impacted by and called upon in such events. Another area
of significant potential cost due to unplanned interruptions is that of charges resulting from
Service Level Agreements with pre-determined costs that will be charged to IT by business
units due to system underperformance or lack of availability of the system. Also, due to the
interconnection of system and network infrastructure resources between application groups,
restoration activities related to an unplanned interruption of the BI platform could very
easily cause an unplanned interruption for another application group. Clearly there are
significant costs that result in these scenarios.
APOS Solutions have a dramatic impact on reducing these costs, and do so by reducing
both the number of unplanned interruptions and the time involved in recovering from these
events. APOS Solutions can reduce the number of crisis events by closely monitoring BI
system services and overall system health metrics, keeping the administrator team informed
on the status of these metrics, and providing alert notification of threshold conditions where
system metrics exceed pre-defined tolerance levels. In addition to alerting, APOS Solutions
can take automated corrective action in an attempt to resolve certain threat events before
they manifest themselves — an aid towards a goal of a self-monitoring and self-healing BI
system. As well, when unplanned interruptions occur, APOS Solutions dramatically improve
the response and recovery time involved in restoring and rebuilding the system. Those
improved response and recovery times have a direct impact on reducing the costs related to
crisis event management.
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MIGRATIONS
Like all major technology platforms, SAP BusinessObjects deployments are faced with the
time consuming and risk intensive necessity of version and platform migrations. The
frequency of these migrations varies between organizations, depending on their IT and
business requirements as well as the organizational IT culture regarding pace of technology
adoption. Whatever the frequency, organizations of all sizes recognize that the cost and
productivity impact of an SAP BusinessObjects system migration can have a substantial
impact on their annual budget spending. The larger and more complex the deployment, the
longer and more complex the migration process, and the larger the budget required to
complete the process. APOS Solutions can assist with some of the very time consuming
elements of a migration process, and as a result have a direct positive impact on the cost of
migration. Some examples of specific areas where APOS Solutions can provide important
efficiencies include:
auditing of the migration, verification of successful migration of objects,
instances and security settings
bulk operation of security settings and modifications to security and preference
settings in the target environment
bulk changes to objects and schedules in order to utilize new features and
settings or respond to in bulk to configuration changes needed due to new
features and settings-monitoring and metrics gathering for system optimization
of the target migration environment
migration and rebuilding of recurring schedules
optimize source system by archiving content to streamline content to be
migrated
For migration tasks such as these, the methodologies and automation provided by APOS
Solutions can reduce the time involved by 50%-90%, as compared to using inherent
platform capabilities. Some examples of such migration tasks would be scheduling, instance
search, user preferences initialization, bulk changes to object and schedule settings, bulk
database password change for objects and their schedules, etc. Given that many large
deployments require months of planning and execution surrounding such processes, it is
easy to recognize the financial benefits involved. In addition to providing more efficient
capabilities, APOS Solutions can also provide otherwise unavailable insight into system
content, patterns and performance which result a faster, smoother migration process.
END-USER PRODUCTIVITY
Platform availability, content availability, content reliability, and system performance are all
factors that have been noted above. In previous sections, discussion of these concepts has
focused on how APOS Solutions bring efficiencies for accomplishing tasks and processes
for managing these factors. However, what have not been discussed thus far are the
dramatic cumulative gains that result for end users of the SAP BusinessObjects system when
APOS Solutions have been utilized to enhance the stability, performance, and reliability of
the BI platform and content. When the system is stable and performing well, BI content is
available and ready when needed for decision making. This impacts end users by reducing
or eliminating inefficient work cycles due to waiting for information or the necessity for
workarounds due to information not being available or reliable.
Combined with this is the potentially staggering impact of both direct and opportunity costs
of resulting from delayed or bad decision making, due to information not being available or
not being reliable. In some cases the costs associated with an unavailable or unreliable BI
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platform will be related to a single decision error or single project that has a major financial
cost impact, but more predictable is the dramatic cumulative effect of many small
inefficiencies of end user time waste, or many small to medium sized decisions that are
impacted by an unavailable or unreliable BI platform. In assessing the impact, it is very
reasonable to consider a small percentage of productivity improvement across the full BI
end user community, while more challenging is trying to predict what the larger impact
events might be.
In most deployments there are a broad range of usage levels within the user community, but
it is reasonable to categorize the user base into heavy users, moderate users, and light users.
Certainly the heavy user group will have the greatest end-user productivity gains, given that
an efficient, available and reliable system will produce significant time savings for this
segment of users due to their high reliance and usage of the BI system. As well, this is also a
group of people who are typically involved in decision support for the larger impact
decisions within the organization. However, even minor productivity gains in the light user
community will have significant cumulative financial impact due to the much larger number
of users that are likely to exist in the light user community.
Looking beyond the Light, Moderate and Heavy users within an organization, we must also
consider the impact of availability and reliability on the external users of the systems. Many
organizations today are utilizing their SAP BusinessObjects platform to deliver high value
information to their customers via an extranet or customer-facing portal. This is a
significant benefit to the customer and has an important impact on solidifying the business
relationship. However if the information portal availability or the reliability of the content
being delivered becomes a point of frustration to the customer due to availability or
reliability, then the portal instead has a detrimental impact on the customer relationship.
Operational maintenance efficiency, crisis management, migration, and end user productivity
are all key factors in assessing the financial impact that APOS Solutions can have on an SAP
BusinessObjects deployment. However, these are not the only factors for consideration, as
several other important factors do exist.
Reduced Infrastructure:
A well tuned and optimized BI system means that the underlying infrastructure can be kept
to a minimum size. Containing physical server resource requirements means that hardware
and licensing costs are contained, and the number of potential failure-points is reduced.
APOS Solutions bring insight and functionality to SAP BusinessObjects deployments that
are important to this tuning and optimization.
Reduced IT Opportunity Costs:
While potential IT projects and their related benefits are almost unlimited, IT human
resources are typically quite limited and are often a key factor for potential IT projects not
being carried forward. APOS Solutions bring efficiencies to SAP BusinessObjects
deployments that reduce the time requirements of IT human resources, thereby opening up
time for those same resources to go on and pursue other projects that drive value within the
organization.
Reduced IT Turnover:
Many of the regular and ongoing administration and maintenance tasks involved with an
SAP BusinessObjects deployment can be tedious, repetitive and cumbersome in nature.
Such tasks can have a negative impact on the longevity of a platform administrator. APOS
Solutions reduce such frustrations and increase employment satisfaction for administrators
by providing capabilities which allow them to take rapid, bulk, direct, and granular actions
on the SAP BusinessObjects environment, freeing their time for more inspiring and higher
value activities.
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Compliance Initiatives:
APOS Solutions provide platform capabilities which can be utilized strategically to assist
with various compliance initiatives. One example of compliance related utilization might
involve the provision of a controlled report and document archival process which meets
challenging compliance standards. Another such example may be the provision of enhanced
promotion controls which enables appropriate restrictions on how administrators can access
or change the content and security settings within development, test, QA, and production
environments.
SUMMARY
Business Intelligence solutions play a critical role in the operations and strategic planning for
today’s organizations, and it is clear that the impact of these solutions are still in the early
stages. As these environments continue to grow in their size and complexity, SAP
BusinessObjects system administrators will benefit from utilizing APOS Solutions in order
to produce a deployment that satisfies the expectations of their end user base as they utilize
this information to positively impact the results of their organizations.
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CUSTOMER IMPLEMENTATIONS
Examples of customer implementations are available in the Case Studies section of
www.apos.com:
http://www.apos.com/Company/CaseStudies.aspx
THE PARTNERSHIPS
APOS SYSTEMS INC.
APOS is an authorized SAP Software Partner and was recognized as the SAP
BusinessObjects ‘Technology Partner of the Year’ for 2006, 2007, and 2008. A leading SAP
BusinessObjects Partner, APOS Systems Inc. offers incomparable knowledge and expertise
in extending the SAP BusinessObjects XI platform. APOS Solutions are helping over 750
SAP BusinessObjects customers, in over 30 countries worldwide, maximize their investment
in the SAP BusinessObjects XI platform.
APOS Solutions for SAP BusinessObjects XI provide customers with powerful tools to
extend their business intelligence system. The APOS Solutions are efficiency-enabling
technologies which bring enhanced management, monitoring, and integration to SAP
BusinessObjects deployments. The net result for the business intelligence system is
increased control and scalability, and decreased total cost of ownership. As well, APOS
development services often use APOS Solutions as the foundation to fast-track custom
development projects.
APOS Solutions include telephone, email, and web-based technical support plus a
maintenance program that provides new versions going forward to support new releases or
upgrades of SAP BusinessObjects XI.
SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS
SAP is the world's leading provider of business software, offering applications and services
that enable companies of all sizes and in more than 25 industries to become best-run
businesses. With more than 82,000 customers in over 120 countries, the company is listed
on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, under the symbol
"SAP."
The SAP® BusinessObjects™ portfolio transforms the way the world works by connecting
people, information and businesses. With open, heterogeneous solutions in the areas of
business intelligence; information management; governance, risk and compliance; and
enterprise performance management, the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio enables
organizations to close the gap between business strategy and execution.
For more information, visit www.sap.com.
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