WHY SHOULD I MIGRATE FROM DESKI TO WEBI ?

*SAP Business Objects (BO) Business Intelligence offers diverse tools for reporting and analysis purpose.

*These tools give full suite of Business Intelligence reporting solutions.

*These reporting tools are purposely for different levels of user according to their business role and interactivity with the business data.

*Desktop Intelligence & Web Intelligence are two such BO tools which has significant role in Business Intelligence.

*DeskI is an analysis and reporting tool to work with offline reporting and focused around client-server construction modeling.

*The downside with DeskI was that it must be deployed to your desktop and was completely offline reporting tool.

*It has been replaced by Webintelligence and Webintelligence Rich Client.

*Web Intelligence is a powerful analysis tool for creating ad-hoc reporting.

*It allows business user to analyze data from data warehouse.

*The reports created in WebI (.WID format) are accessed through BO portal InfoView.

*There are different tools that provide relative functionality as WebI according to scenario need

*SAP Business Objects 4.0 is first significant arrival of Business Objects suite by SAP which comes up with numerous improvements. This release incorporates change in naming traditions with dawn of new reporting devices and eliminating some of old ones also.

*SAP BO 4.0 release onwards DeskI won't be part of reporting device's group which serves as the real purpose behind clients to consider substitute tool for further report improvements.

*No stress! Web Intelligence (Rich Client) is prepared and competent to embrace all sort of DeskI's reporting obligations giving same working environment and upgraded peculiarities to end client.

There are some questions the existing users of DeskI might ask, like:-

*What will happen to my already In-use DeskI reports?

*Do customers need to develop those reports again in new tools?

*Will all the efforts invested in DeskI reports be lost?

*Is there any way to reuse existing reports in new tools to save development efforts?

The answer to all of these queries is migration.

SAP BASIS Support Service provider like ArchitectSAP Solutions helps their client in migrating from DeskI to WebI.

*No Support for Desktop Intelligence in SAP BO 4.0

*Webi (rich customer) and Interactive Analysis have upgraded capabilities.

*Web Services combination in Interactive investigation, Online, Offline and Disconnected association mode alternatives.

*Both of these tools is completely proficient to serve your reporting needs. No compelling reason to try for both.

*Report conversion tool is used to migrate DeskI reports to Interactive Analysis reports.

* The Report Conversion Tool converts SAP Business Objects Desktop Intelligence XI R2 and XI 3.0 reports to Interactive Analysis XI 4.0 organization and distributes the changed over reports to the XI 4.0 CMS.

* It recovers reports from the source "Focal Management Server" (CMS) into the Public, Favorites or Inbox organizers. After transformation, you can distribute to the same folder as the original Desktop Intelligence report or to an alternate folder.

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