In This Issue:

New White Paper: Object Manager - Administration Power Tool

Integration Kit for ESRI GIS - New Developments

APOS BI Tools Featured in New Book About BusinessObjects XI

Sponsoring the Business Objects North American User Conference

Case Study - T-Mobile

Webinar - APOS BI Tools Overview

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Fresh off the press - this new White Paper provides an overview of the great ROI being delivered to our customers by APOS Object Manager for the BusinessObjects XI platform!

APOS Object Manager allows administrators to quickly and easily make bulk modifications to the most common object properties in Business Objects XI. Rather than fighting with a one-action-at-a-time DHTML interface and taking hours to perform maintenance tasks, administrators can utilize the power of APOS Object Manager for dramatically reduced maintenance time and improved ROI.

Here's an overview of the topics covered in this comprehensive White Paper:

• Category Maintenance
• Database Connectivity
• Destination and Format Settings
• Initial Parameter Values
• Limits Maintenance
• Notification Settings
• Object Deployment
• Preferences Management
• Process Settings
• Processing Extensions
• Schedule For
• Security Maintenance
• User Maintenance

• WEBI Caching Options

Visit here to request the full version of the White Paper entitled "Object Manager - Administration Power Tool"

To check out how Object Manager can help your organization, please visit here to request demo download instructions and our current price list.

Visit here to view a web demo and review more information about Object Manager.

Our new Integration Kit for ESRI GIS is generating a lot of interest as a powerful two-way bridge between two industry-leading business intelligence solutions – ESRI GIS and BusinessObjects XI R2.

BusinessObjects XI R2 supported operating systems such as Solaris, AIX, Linux, etc.

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APOS BI Tools Featured in New Book about BusinessObjects XI *Author - Carl Ganz

Scheduled for release in early November, Pro Crystal Enterprise and BusinessObjects XI is a new book that shows you how to create customized solutions using the Business Objects/Crystal Enterprise object model.

Author Carl Ganz explains how to build advanced reporting solutions for Business Objects XI/Crystal Enterprise. He shows how to integrate with .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio to create more flexible, tailored, and responsive reporting solutions than have previously been possible.

Carl has included a large section about APOS BI Tools, for those who prefer utilizing developed, supported solutions as an alternative to custom development.

Interview Comments from Carl Ganz

"After installing and using every tool offered by APOS, I can easily see how APOS BI Tools fill in the gaps in functionality. If there’s something you need to do with BO XI that it doesn’t do out of the box, APOS has a tool to meet the need!"

Win a Complimentary Copy of the Book

If you visit the APOS booth on November 6-8 at the Business Objects User Conference in San Francisco, you have a good chance of having your name drawn for one of the 20 copies of the book that we're giving away at the show, we hope to see you there!

Services Used: APOS Professional Services – Custom Development

Background:
Since establishment in December 1999, T-Mobile has positioned itself as one of the largest international mobile communications carriers. In efforts to 'Get More' from their Business Intelligence System they contacted APOS Systems for some custom development work to simplify and automate user security and management across several applications.

Challenge:
T-Mobile wanted to synchronize security between their Help Desk Software applications (Remedy and Insite) and their BusinessObjects Enterprise system. This required the consolidation of 5 stand alone reporting environments into one. Another challenge was to import a subset of 26,000 users from Remedy and their groups or markets from Insite. T-Mobile also required a way to track who was viewing which reports utilizing local time zones across the country.

Solution:
The APOS Professional Services Team provided T-Mobile with a custom windows application that takes the user name and password information from the Help desk application security database and updates the BusinessObjects Enterprise security database automatically. This allows users to utilize one user ID across all applications. It also enabled T-Mobile to audit who is running which reports.

The APOS application is utilized by internal users who may be interacting with T-mobile customers. It has improved productivity tremendously as there is no need for a dedicated BusinessObjects Enterprise administrator to create users and provide privileges to specific groups. “Our project could not go live without APOS custom development. The APOS custom software enables us to maintain one user authentication process for all our applications while alleviating any additional strain on our enterprise administrator,” acknowledged Sudar.

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RunTime Manager - set availability time windows for Job Servers, Page Servers, etc.

AddressBook Gateway - integrate Outlook/Exchange with ePortfolio/InfoView 'schedule to email'

Report Package Booster - consolidate reports to password protected pdf/xls and distribute

Distribution Server - email link, email content, failure notification, distribute on alert

Subscription Manager - allow users to manage their own report subscription

Row Level Security . . .

View Time Security - row level data security without C++ development

Crystal Reports BI Tools . . .