APOS Systems Inc.

APOS Systems Inc. is a business intelligence (BI) and location intelligence (LI) software solution provider and SAP PartnerEdge program channel partner. Headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, APOS has over 850 customers in 37 countries. The company's products span four categories:
* BI Platform Management - BI tools for SAP BusinessObjects administrators and platform managers, including report scheduling, instance management, and report archiving and restoring;
* BI Publishing - report post processing, including bursting, consolidation, and bulk scheduling;
* Pervasive BI - integration of enterprise BI systems with report distribution media such as Microsoft Excel, and integration of enterprise BI systems with enterprise content management systems such as Open Text and Microsoft SharePoint; and
* Location Intelligence - bi-directional integration of Esri geographic information systems (GIS) with enterprise BI systems.
History
APOS was founded in 1992 by Dan Clements to provide custom software development services. APOS is an acronym for "Advanced Point of Sale," reflecting the company's original software development focus. In the mid-90s, APOS started doing custom work for customers using Crystal Decisions business intelligence products. In 2003, Crystal Decisions was acquired by BusinessObjects, which was in turn acquired by SAP AG in 2007.
As the business intelligence market developed, APOS began to develop applications to complement enterprise BI platforms, particularly SAP BusinessObjects. APOS' BI focus has always been on back-end support: simplifying and extending key administrative and platform management functions, and enabling power users to complete tasks more efficiently and effectively.
Products
APOS' products by BI Platform Management
APOS Administrator - complements and extends SAP BusinessObjects administrative capabilities. Lets you maintain object settings, security, user preferences, users, user groups, limits, in bulk. Simplifies object promotion and replacement. Permits bulk scheduling and "what-if" scenarios using a Microsoft Excel interface.
APOS Insight - complements and extends SAP BusinessObjects metadata management and audit capabilities. Extracts SAP BusinessObjects system and report meta data into a database for reporting. Lets you establish thresholds for alerts and monitor system statistics using an active monitoring console. Let's you Monitor schedule failures system wide. Let's you control system resource allocation by activating and deactivating SAP BusinessObjects services on a schedule.
APOS Storage Center - Let's you archive and back-up report instances, back-up report objects with versions, and perform partial restores.
BI Publishing
APOS Publisher - Let's you burst reports in multiple ways to multiple destinations and in multiple formats, consolidate multiple reports to one indexed document, or schedule individual reports to multiple destinations and formats using one schedule. Provides a Microsoft Excel-based bulk scheduling interface to let you schedule large numbers of reports and run what-if scenarios.
APOS Output Management - combines the publishing capabilities of APOS and SAP BusinessObjects with the enterprise output management capabilities of LRS Inc., in a single package. Provides system administrators with a secure platform for end-to-end monitoring and control of output management processes.
Pervasive BI
APOS Microsoft Outlook Integration - connects information consumers across the enterprise to SAP BusinessObjects using Microsoft Outlook, providing on-line and off-line report viewing and scheduling within Microsoft Outlook.
APOS Content Fusion (PDF)- integrates SAP BusinessObjects with content management systems, including the Open Text Enterprise Content Management (ECM) suite and Microsoft SharePoint, making business intelligence content accessible to content management workflows.
Location Intelligence
APOS Location Intelligence Solution (LIS) - integrates Esri ArcGIS Server and enterprise BI systems such as SAP BusinessObjects to provide better data visualization and access to data from interactive maps.
- hosted location intelligence.
- integration with large-scale data warehousing and processing systems such as Teradata.

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