February, 2009
In this issue:
APOS Strong Amid Economic Turbulence
- Despite current global economic challenges, APOS ends 2008 with growth. Key to this has been the ability of APOS Solutions to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of SAP BusinessObjects implementations. Read more
Dashboard Integration of Xcelsius, GIS Mapping and Reporting - Dashboard Builder 3.1 support for the APOS Integration Kit for ESRI GIS solution has just been released, allowing ESRI GIS maps to interact with Business Objects reports and Xcelsius models in a unified dashboard view. Read more
InfoScheduler - New features for our top selling solution, including support for multiple languages. This Excel-based report-scheduling solution provides outstanding ROI through incredible time savings. Read more
RealTime Monitor - Alert monitoring and control solution keeps getting better with new features, plus a special webinar on Feb. 17, 18. Read more
Practical Solution Webinars - 3 upcoming sessions you won't want to miss: "Powerful Alert Monitoring and Control with RealTime Monitor," "KPI: Advanced Auditing for SAP BusinessObjects XI," and "APOS Solutions Overview." Read more
New Value Added Reseller - Windhoff Software Services GmbH is now an APOS VAR, which will enable them to include APOS Solutions as part of their Business Intelligence solutions for the German market. Read more
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APOS Strong Amid Economic Turbulence | Allan Pym, Vice President
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 Despite the current global economic challenges, APOS is very pleased to have finalized 2008 with solid revenue growth. This growth builds on previous successes, to what is now 15 successive years of growing revenue. The APOS successes in 2008 are a great accomplishment, and key to this has been the ability of APOS Solutions to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of SAP BusinessObjects implementations. Organizations are focused on reducing TCO in all areas of their IT operation, and are also driven to maximize the return on investment that they have made in their business intelligence platform.
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| We save time, which translates to money. The solutions assist in enhancing the productivity of our report developers, and more importantly, our Business Objects Administrators.
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We greatly appreciate the loyalty of our expanding customer base, and we look forward to the opportunity in 2009 to continue maximizing value for our customers with their SAP BusinessObjects deployments.
Become familiar with how APOS Solutions can help your organization maximize the ROI of your SAP BusinessObjects platform by contacting us or attending an APOS Solutions Overview webinar. We look forward to working with you!
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Dashboard Integration of Xcelsius, GIS Mapping and Reporting | Now Released!
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Dashboard Builder 3.1 support for the APOS Integration Kit for ESRI GIS solution has just been released. This powerful feature enhancement will allow ESRI GIS maps to interact with Business Objects reports and Xcelsius models in a unified dashboard view. Maps can be a source or targets within the dashboard and pass information to Xcelsius models or other reports or receive information from Xcelsius models or other maps.
 The APOS Integration Kit for ESRI GIS offers full bidirectional integration between SAP BusinessObjects XI and ESRI ArcGIS Server, ArcIMS and ArcGIS Desktop. In addition to this new Dashboard Builder 3.1 support, the solution allows an innovative 'side-by-side' presentation, where a map and a report are side by side in one view, with the ability to click on the report to refresh the map, or click on the map to refresh the report.
View a web demo and client comments here.
InfoScheduler | New Features!
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InfoScheduler is one of our most popular solutions, with powerful timesaving features for administrators and power users to create batches of reports, edit their schedules using Excel, and manage 'what if' scenarios in the most productive scheduling tool available.
New InfoScheduler features recently added...
- Now multilingual - support for German, Spanish, Japanese, French and English
- Spreadsheet can now support up to 100 parameters (Office 2007 version only)
- A new column for an Instance Name Suffix
- Restore of XML & CSV import will now check the report object in SAP BusinessObjects XI to see if there are any new parameters that have been added since the XML/CSV file was created and those parameter names will be added to the spreadsheet
- InfoScheduler can remember the "Copy Properties" menu settings so they do not have to be set each time InfoScheduler is loaded
- Schedule to Inbox & overwrite existing instance: schedule a report from InfoScheduler to a user's Inbox, and have the old instance in the user's Inbox and the old instance in the report folder in the CMC overwritten each time the report is scheduled from InfoScheduler.
Visit here to view a short web demo and learn more about InfoScheduler.
Try it out! Request an evaluation download to see how InfoScheduler can help your organization.
Powerful Alert Monitoring and Control with RealTime Monitor | New Features & Special Webinar
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 RealTime Monitor gives administrators the power to monitor their system and receive real time alerts when thresholds they set are exceeded, and take automatic action when threshold alerts are triggered. In addition, they can identify problematic trends through historical analysis. |
Following are new features just added to RealTime Monitor:
- Self-healing for the system - execute scripts on an alert response
- Run multiple server windows in the UI
- Design your own script to retrieve any set of statistics or to inspect any part of the system - the RealTime Monitor Agent can run custom scripts and trigger alerts based on the returned results
- The RealTime Monitor Agent can run as a probe with support for IBM's Tivoli and Microsoft's MOM (coming soon)
- Run multiple RealTime Monitor agent services pointing to multiple environments on one machine
See how RealTime Monitor can help your organization at our webinar February 17, 18. Register now!
Practical Solution Webinars | Upcoming Sessions
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| Powerful Alert Monitoring and Control with RealTime Monitor |
Providing powerful alert monitoring and control of all servers, with SNMP support. Automatic monitoring of BusinessObjects XI system metrics and operational indicators in real time. Administrators can monitor their system and receive real time alerts when thresholds they set are exceeded, and take automatic action when threshold alerts are triggered.
More detail and registration here.
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February 17 and
February 18
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| APOS Solutions Overview |
An overview of the APOS Solutions Suite for the SAP BusinessObjects XI platform. Learn how APOS Solutions can help leverage and maximize the SAP BusinessObjects XI platform. We will provide high level information to help better assess the range of current solutions available.
More detail and registration here.
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| KPI: Advanced Auditing for SAP BusinessObjects XI |
Gain insight and understanding of your reporting system structure and activity with metadata analysis. Users can analyze their system structure and perform impact analysis of any planned changes ahead of time, handling anything from security to report structure, universe structure, and server metrics.
More detail and registration here.
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New Value Added Reseller | Windhoff Software Services GmbH
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Kitchener, Ontario, Canada – February 9, 2009 – APOS Systems announced today that Windhoff Software Services GmbH is now an APOS Value Added Reseller, which will enable them to include APOS Solutions as part of their Business Intelligence (BI) solutions for the German market.
"We are very pleased to be partnering with Windhoff Software Services," stated Allan Pym, Vice President, Business Development at APOS. "The combination of their strong commitment to deploying high-quality business intelligence solutions and their well respected presence in the German market, makes Windhoff an excellent fit as an APOS Value Added Reseller. We are excited to join with them in further building the acceptance and usage of the APOS solutions in Germany, and it serves our mutual company objectives very well."
"Business Intelligence continues to gain in significance. Particularly in economically challenging times companies need the right processing of their business data to make reliable decisions," explained Norbert Sundermann, Chief Executive Officer at Windhoff Software Services. "Therefore we consider the partnership with APOS as an important step to extend our service offer in this field. In addition to the high quality of the software solutions we appreciate especially the good and trustful cooperation with our Canadian partner."
Read the full press release here.
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