March, 2009
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APOS Awarded SAP BusinessObjects Technology Partner of the Year | 3rd Consecutive Year!
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Kitchener, Canada - March 9, 2009 - APOS Systems Inc. has been named 2008 SAP® BusinessObjects Technology Partner of the Year, North America. Awards were granted by SAP America, Inc. and SAP Canada, Inc. to the top-performing SAP channel partners and SAP BusinessObjects partners in North America for outstanding contributions in revenue, marketing and customer service.
 As the recipient of the SAP BusinessObjects Technology Partner of the Year award, APOS has been honored as the technology partner in North America that delivered the most compelling standalone application leveraging SAP BusinessObjects technology.
"This is our third consecutive SAP BusinessObjects Technology Partner of the Year award," said Dan Clements, President and CEO of APOS Systems. "We appreciate SAP BusinessObjects'recognition as we continue to develop solutions that yield lower TCO (total cost of ownership) and higher ROI (return on investment) for SAP BusinessObjects clients by providing deeper control over system monitoring, administration, deployment, and integration."
"SAP commends APOS Systems on receipt of the SAP BusinessObjects Technology Partner of the Year for 2008, demonstrating a strong commitment to the SAP partnership and our joint customers," said Tom Cooper, senior vice president, SME, SAP. "Through its leading performance and revenue growth in 2008, APOS has demonstrated the value of our customer-focused ecosystem, thereby extending the value of SAP applications to our joint customers through its strong efforts."
Read the full press release here.
Decision First Technologies | New Strategic Alliance Partner
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Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - March 9, 2009 - APOS Systems announced today that Decision First Technologies, a very well respected implementer of SAP BusinessObjects solutions, has become a Strategic Alliance Partner, and will now be a reseller and implementer of the Integration Kit for ESRI, an APOS Solution, to their clients throughout North America and the Caribbean.
"We have been familiar with Decision First for several years, and have known very well the level of capability that they bring to the implementation of SAP BusinessObjects solutions," said Allan Pym, Vice President, Business Development at APOS Systems. "As we better understood their ESRI solutions practice, it became very clear that there are powerful synergies between our organizations. Our strategic alliance with Decision First will greatly benefit our mutual customers for achieving location intelligence solutions and the next level of understanding of their business questions."
"For years, the consultants and customers of Decision First have often been consumers of APOS solutions," said Scott Golden, Vice President of Professional Services for Decision First Technologies. "We have admired the ingenuity and quality with which their products address common SAP BusinessObjects issues. We view the APOS Integration Kit for ESRI as an essential component of our location intelligence solution strategy. We believe that this alliance with APOS will allow our customers to extend their location intelligence functionality and maximize their investments in ESRI and SAP BusinessObjects."
Read the full press release here.
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Live Mapping in Dashboard Builder 3.1 | SAP BusinessObjects "How-To Half Hour" Webinar
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Integrating live mapping into SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Builder will enhance the analysis capabilities of your dashboard and improve the data representation to reveal new insights and solutions.
This session will show you a new way of integrating ESRI-based mapping into dashboards using the new Dashboard Builder 3.1 infrastructure. A map can interact with all other document types (Xcelsius, Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence, and Crystal Reports) and serve as a source or a target in the dashboard.
This session will cover:
- ESRI GIS live mapping overview
- Key concepts with the new Dashboard Builder 3.1 platform
- How to integrate ESRI GIS mapping into the new Dashboard Builder 3.1 platform
- Xcelsius and ESRI GIS interactive mapping
Don't miss this special SAP BusinessObjects webinar!
 Register here
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Instance Manager | New Features!
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 One of the power administration products in our Administrator Solution, Instance Manager provides a fast way to manage your ever growing report instances and folder structure! Analyze the entire report instance environment at once, search for specific instance processing states within specific time periods and then optionally apply action commands to one or more report instances simultaneously. |
New Instance Manager features recently added...
- Hide/unhide instances in the grid - this new item to the 'View' menu on the main screen allows the user to make the list smaller and easier to work with, without the need to run a new query against the CMS.
- Error messages for failed instances - any such messages will appear in a new column in the main grid
- Search for matching text in any column - for instances that are already loaded into the grid through a new 'Edit' menu item. All rows that are found in the grid that contain matching text in one of the columns will be selected.
- New columns added to the main grid:
- Path to file/email/ftp
- Email From
- Email Subject
- Output File Name
- Load the destination screen with the destination settings - that are set on the selected instance (only if 1 instance is selected, default enterprise values will be used if more than 1 instance is selected).
- Search for a range of ID's - in the main filter
Visit here to view a short web demo and learn more about Instance Manager.
Try it out! Request an evaluation download to see how Instance Manager can help your organization.
Driving Efficient Management of the BI Platform | Webinar Session with Forrester Research Analyst Boris Evelson
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 Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 8:00am PDT/11:00am EDT
This session will discuss key considerations for today's BI platform managers, and bring focus to the critical importance of effective management of the BI platform and the delivery of BI content. Discussion will be given to how the APOS Solutions drive value, reduce TCO, and bring agility to SAP BusinessObjects deployments.
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An easy next step! Attend an APOS Solutions Overview webinar - find out how our solutions can help leverage and maximize the SAP BusinessObjects XI platform.
March 24 or April 28
More detail and registration here
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