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SAP BusinessObjects Platform Upgrade/MigrationWhy should you do it now?
Tim Nightingale (SAP UK Ltd)
Why should you upgrade now?• The BusinessObjects platform• Protect your investment• Improvements for administrators• Improvements for users• New functions and features• It isn’t difficult!
The BusinessObjects platform• Evolved over many years• “SAP customers particularly praised
BusinessObjects’ data integration,information delivery technical architecture,analytics, operational capabilities, andSAP’s corporate and product vision.”The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2013” by Boris Evelson,December 18, 2013, Forrester Research, Inc
The BusinessObjects platform• BI 4.1 – Focus on quality, core stability
and improvements• BI 4.1 – New innovations, product
advances from BI 4.0 and re-introducedfeatures from XI 3.x
• BI 4.1 – New capabilities around self-service, dashboarding and mobile BI
Protect your investment• All existing XI R2 and XI 3.x customers
can upgrade to BI 4.1
Improvements for administrators• Cloud deployable (public and private)• Embedded monitoring• Embedded promotion management• Improved audit engine• Parallel patching
– Near zero downtime
Improvements for end users• All BI clients in a single platform• Support for Big Data• Desktop Intelligence compatibility pack• More self service, but with trusted data
New functions and features• Native HANA support
– Every BI client– Combine with other data
• Mobile– Fully embedded and supported– Support of all BI client tools
New functions and features• Improved Native SAP BW support
– SAP BW Business Intelligence ConnectionService (BICS) embedded in BI platform
– No need for BW Java deployment• BI platform support tool
– Landscape and patch analysis– End to end tracinghttp://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/SAP+BI+Platform+Support+Tool
New functions and features• Integration with Analysis Office, Design
Studio, Lumira and Lumira Server
• Concurrent Session Based Licensing– Decouples hardware capabilities– Can be combined with Named Users
It isn’t difficult!
It isn’t difficult!• Upgrade Management Tool
– Java based– Fewer step process– Intelligent high performance parallel operation– Simpler to use– Improved progress/summary display– Installed with server install
Upgrade Management Tool• Full upgrade
Choose the CompleteUpgrade
1
Choose Upgradescenario & entercredentials
2
Get the summary ofwhat is going to beupgraded
3
End
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Upgrade Management Tool• Incremental
upgrade– Flexible– Dependency
aware
Choose theIncremental Upgrade
1
Choose Upgradescenario & entercredentials
2
Choose objects tocopy & options
3
Choose objects toexclude & options
4
End
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It isn’t difficult!
7 years ago I said migration ismore than a push button process,
today we simply upgrade
Tim’s top tips• Set up an upgrade test server• Use your existing security model to
manage dependency calculations• Backup Custom Access Levels before
incremental upgrades• Check temp space for UMT• Ensure owners of objects are included
