UPgrade PPT

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SAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions UpgConsiderations and Content



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Agenda

Presentation (30 minutes)

Platform considerations

Upgrade management tool

Upgrade workflows

Content conversion

Workshops

Workshop 1: Full & incremental upgrade (30 minutes)

Workshop 2: Use of promotion and version management (30 minutes)

Workshop 3: Content migration (20 minutes)



Platform considerations


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Additional work required beyond

Minor effort = Significant EffPlatform considerations

Effort XI 3.1 BI 4.0 Upgrade Considerations

XI3 softwareNo patch, full install

required

Full installation is required.

Co-existing XI3 and BI4 is possible

(exceptions for Web Intelligence Rich Client and o

Audit database New audit schema Can not report across both BI4 and XI3 audit data

schemas

InfoView BI Launch Pad New interface

Report pinning

Dashboard Builder BI Workspace Corporate, Personal and My InfoView Dashboard

some analytics must be recreated in „Dashboards

toEncyclopedia,Performance Manager

End of Life No upgrade.

SAP Strategy Manager as alternative for Performa

Discussions Deprecated Continue to use in BI4 and/or adopt new SAP Stre

Search New search technology The search index will be re-built in BI 4.0.

Index disk size should be much smaller



Upgrade management too




Upgrade Management Tool (UMT):

Upgrades content in 4 easy-to-use steps

Super fast compared with Import Wizard

Available on Windows as a „GUI‟

Available on Unix as a command line tool

„Source‟ can be „XI live system‟* or a „XI3 BIAR‟ file

Top tips!

Don‟t run out of „temp‟ disk space!

Increase memory for UMT. See SAP Note: 1654423

– In some cases this has reduced upgrade time from 20

hours to 2 mins!

– Set the JavaHeap to use as much RAM as you have

available!




Incremental Upgrade option allows toinclude/exclude:

Documents Instances

Dependent Objects

Upgrading a user will also upgrade their:

Favourite folder

Inbox folder



Upgrade workflows



Upgrade Workflows - complete or incremental?

Complete Upgrade

Upgrade everything at once

Incremental Upgrad

Upgrade department by de

Pros

Only 1 system to maintain

Simple

Ideal for small deployments

Short downtime

Reduced risk

Cons

Longer downtime

Need to lockdown entire system

Issues affect everyone

Need to lockdown department f

2 systems to maintain

Could be more complex




To „freeze‟ XI 3 (prevent users

do any of: Stop your application server

Disable and stop all “Busines

except CMS and FRS

Block all access to the CMS

XI3 and BI4 systems

Create a custom access leve

view objects rights(except for Administrators!)

Upgrade workflows: Complete upgrade

XI3 and BI4 can be hosted on the same machine

– but not recommended on Windows in Production

Source doesn‟t have to be „live‟ could be just a copy.




To „freeze‟ XI3 „department‟ folder (prevent users from using it):

– Create a custom access level and explicitly deny view objects rights on that departmen

Upgrade workflows: Incremental upgrade




Majority of deployments s

upgrade each environme

This is the recommended

Upgrade workflows: Recommended approach




The use of Promotion and Versio

the upgrade process is possible

Provides rollback capability

Not suitable for large deploym

Upgrade content to BI4 Developm

Management Tool‟

Create Promotion Management j

content within the „BI4 environme

Promotion Jobs can now be „che

Management. This means any ch

content after the check-in will not

to other systems.

Promotion Management jobs des

max. So promote piece meal.

Promotion Jobs now support Obj

Inboxes & Personal Documents

Upgrade workflows: Use of promotion and version mana

1

2



Content conversion





to Crystal ReportsCrystal Reports 2011 and

Crystal Reports for Enterprise

All reports are by default upgraded to CR 2011

Use “Crystal Reports for Enterprise” for BICS or UNX se

to Desktop Intelligence End Of Life Need to convert documents to Web Intelligence, either b

with Report Conversion Tool.

Xcelsius 2008 Dashboards Conversion to new format is optional. Old ones will still w

address‟). Conversion adds new features (globalization,

Explorer No UNV support Need to convert UNV to UNX and re-create.

Information Spaces based on Excel are upgraded but will ne

can‟t connect to BW Queries anymore

Voyager Analysis, edition for OLAP Voyager workspaces will upgrade to Analysis workspac

of the exact same name in BI4.

Web Intelligence Web Intelligence Fully upgraded. WebiRC XI3/BI4 can not co-exist. BI4 W

server in „HTTP‟ mode.


Minor effort = Significant EffContent conversion (1/3)





Universe Design Tool(.UNV)

No change None, universes and de

Information Designer

(.UNX)

Relational UNV can be

BW OLAP universes no

use direct BICS connec

„OLAP‟ UNX universes

other „OLAP‟ UNV univ

Business Views Designer No change No changes to busines

Only supported with Cry






Effort XI 3.1 BI 4.0 Upgrade Consideratio

LifeCycle Management Installer fully Integrated in BI 4.0. From BI4.0FP3 the interface is in the CMC.

VM System remains separate

If you want to keep the cManagement system‟ yo

you could just start fres

Report Conversion Tool /

Report Comparison Tool

No major change, except ‘.REP’s can not

exist in BI4

Convert before or after

BI4 tools allow for impro

on Query, Fold/Unfold, S





WorkshopsWorkshop 1: Full & incremental upgrade (30 minutes)

Workshop 2: Use of promotion and version management (30 minutes)Workshop 3: Content migration (20 minutes)




Further Information

SAP Public Web

http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/All+you+need+to+know+before+upgrading+to+BI4.0

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Deski+and+Webi+-+scope+of+features

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/bi-suite-tutorials

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Integration Kits for SAP,PeopleSoft, Siebel, JDEdwards,

Oracle

Integrated in BI 4.0 No separate installation required

Integration Kit for SharePoint,

Integration Option for Microsoft

SharePoint

Integration Option for Microsoft

SharePoint Now all „kits‟ are integrated into one.

Data Federator Partially integrated in BI 4.0 Existing DF 3.x deployments remain compati

Live Office No change Need to update client machines

BI Mobile Integrated in BI 4 Same Mobile app can connect to both XI3 an From BI 4.1 mobile for iphone/ipad app (plann

Unwired Platform

Query as a Web Service (QaaWS) No change Change web service URLs

to Web Intelligence SDKLimited

SDK support

Wait until full support and availability of Intera

in a later release.

Appendix Slide (1/2): Additional changes between XI3 an




XI R2 / XI 3.1 BI 4.0 Upgrade Cons

Security and Authentication settings(AD / LDAP / SSL / SAP) To be set up in BI 4.0 Create 3rd party authentication s

and groups.

Reporting databases connectivity To be set up in BI 4.0 Manual task

BI Server configuration settings To be set up in BI 4.0 Manual task

Web Application configuration settings To be set up in BI 4.0

Manual task. BI Platform specifWeb.xml file to properties file.

InfoView Customization (picture, logo, …) To be set up in BI 4.0 Manual task

Custom Java code using the BOE SDK

and Report Engine SDK

Need to validate your custom co

Some of the Java functions can

Appendix Slide (2/2): Additional changes between XI3 an

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