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Customer Success – APOS Web Intelligence Migrator – Government

Key Takeaways

⇨ The agency needed to upgrade from UNV to UNX universes and repoint thousands of Web Intelligence reports due to the critical importance of timeliness and accuracy in managing grant reporting processes.

⇨ Manual conversion and repointing were prone to errors and resource-intensive, necessitating the search for an automated solution to ensure proper execution and support future upgrades of SAP BusinessObjects.

⇨ The implementation of APOS Migrator for Web Intelligence enabled the agency to automate the conversion, repointing, and validation processes efficiently, allowing them to meet project goals on time and within budget.

A G7 federal agency successfully automated the conversion of UNV universes to UNX and repointing and validation of Web Intelligence reports using APOS Migrator, addressing resource constraints and minimizing errors in preparation for future SAP BusinessObjects upgrades.

Upgrading to UNX, repointing Web Intelligence reports, and validating content

Government – A G7 federal government agency organizing the funding for scientific and technological research, supporting discovery and innovation, and working with universities, colleges, businesses and not-for-profit organizations to remove barriers and develop opportunities.

Landscape & Core Challenge

This agency uses SAP BusinessObjects to manage reporting on grant processes, in which timeliness and accuracy are critical. In preparation for their SAP BusinessObjects future in BI 4.3 and BI 2025, this agency needed to find a way to convert their UNV universes to UNX, repoint and validate thousands of reports with limited human resources.

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Problem: Limited resources would be heavily taxed by manual conversion and repointing processes, and these processes would be prone to human error.

Without a means of automating these processes, future SAP BusinessObjects upgrades would be in jeopardy.

Requirements

• Live connectivity between SAP Analytics Cloud and Microsoft Azure SQL
• Automated validation of repointed report accuracy
• Ease of use for users with limited technical experience

Barriers

• Manual Web Intelligence report upgrades are time- and resource-intensive
• Manual repointing and testing are prone to human error
• SAP conversion resources do not enable bulk upgrades

Outcomes

APOS Migrator for Web Intelligence enabled this government agency to move quickly from proof of concept to their conversion, repointing and validation project, automating:

• UNV to UNX conversion
• Repointing of Web Intelligence reports
• Validation of report results

“This government agency was able to achieve their Web Intelligence repointing objectives quickly, efficiently and accurately with APOS Web Intelligence Migrator. The product’s project-based interface and ease of use allowed them to estimate accurately the scope of the conversion and repointing project, allocate resources accordingly, and. repoint and validate thousands of reports on time and on budget.”
Cathy Ramsli, Account Manager, APOS

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