Reduce Your
SAP BusinessObjects Costs

Upgrades and Migrations

Upgrades and migrations are time-consuming and expensive no matter the type (database, on-premise, cloud-based (AWS, Azure, SAP HEC, SAP NS2, etc.), DBMS consolidation, etc.). 360Suite reduces the cost of upgrades and migrations up to 80% by automating the process of cleaning, qualifying, and moving content. 360Suite also locates unused content and isolates, archives, or deletes it, as desired. Finally, 360Suite identifies bottlenecks and compares the performance of Business Objects in the cloud versus on-prem. Our customers’ success stories are proof of the 360Suite ROI. ARI saved more than $500k on a migration, the City of Chicago saved the annual cost of a full-time consultant, and Lockheed Martin saved more than 1,000 man-hours in the first six months with 360Suite.

Regressions

Regression testing is critical after an upgrade or migration, database change, ETL change, or regularly for quality assurance in the case of sensitive reports. Regression testing ensures that data, pixels, security, and metadata remain consistent between versions, environments, and databases. But regression testing is onerous and time-consuming, especially for business users, so organizations typically take one of three approaches:

1. They do nothing and hope for the best;
2. They ask users and business leaders to check reports manually;
3. They hire third-parties to perform expensive regression testing.

When regression testing is done poorly or not at all, organizations may lose trust in the data or fail to comply with requirements. By automating the process, 360Suite makes it quick and easy to perform regression without the need for outsourcing. The largest U.S. motorcycle manufacturer reduced the number of consultants needed for regression testing from 16 to 2, and kept sensitive data in-house by using 360Suite.

Administration

Administrative tasks are often repetitive and prone to human error. Consider the case of an employee who assumes a new function within your organization. Can you easily determine what the employee has access to–explicitly and via inherited or double-inherited rights–in order to modify access to reflect the new role? 360Suite performs administrative tasks faster and better through automation and bulk updates, making it possible to do more with less so IT can focus on other priorities. Vanderbilt University Medical Center reduced administration time by 75% with 360Suite.

Outsourcing

Organizations outsource business intelligence for numerous reasons with varying degrees of success. 360Suite makes it possible to supervise outsourcing providers by measuring their efficiency and documenting their output. The powerful 360Suite user interface puts you in the driver’s seat and enables you to take quick action, including restoring content to a prior version, when issues impact business. 360Suite also provides a way to measure work quality, track security changes, monitor activity, including on sensitive content, and ultimately empower execution by outsourcing partners.

REDUCE TECHNICAL COSTS

Hardware Requirements

Most deployments grow in size over time because content is constantly added. As a result, organizations must spend money to store and process additional content. 360Suite automates the process of locating unused content and isolating, archiving, or deleting it, as desired. Less content means fewer problems and less money spent managing unnecessary documents.

Bottlenecks

Poor performance costs time and money. 360Suite can identify Business Objects bottlenecks (e.g. end-of-the-month reporting), determine the optimal time of day to process reports, and compare the runtime of reports in different environments (e.g., on-prem vs. cloud), with monitoring done via lightweight HTML 5.

System Crashes

Bottlenecks and poor performance can lead to system crashes. 360Suite makes it possible to schedule reports so they run at optimal times, set alerts that are triggered by long-running reports, and locate those reports.