reduce timeline and budget for sap businessobjects bi4.2 migration and upgrade by 80 percent
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Reduce Timeline and Budget for SAP BusinessObjects 4.2 Migration & Upgrade by 80 Percent
Merlijn Ekkel, Director of SAP BI, SAPSebastien Goiffon, CEO, GB&SMITH
Edge – 92K user deployments1,000,000 administrated users
> 30 countries> 98% renewal rate> 500 clients50 people
Boston – London – Lille
SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS PORTFOLIO
Backup, promote & version BO content
Schedule and burst your BO reports
Explore and analyze BO metadata
Ensure BO license compliance
Automate report qualification Non regression tests
Secure your SAP BO deployment
ARCHITECTURE
BusinessObjects server(s)
Web server
Application server
360Eyes database
BI4.2 KEY ENHANCEMENTS
BI MAINTENANCE DATES
KEY PAIN POINTS
We love to upgrade into BI4.2, however we have some challenges…
• No insight in content and the use of content
• Loads of copies / clones / minor changes - versions / personal documents
• Limited capabilities to clean up as we do not know how objects are related
• Loads of documents that need to be validated (or converted)
MIGRATION PATH/20 YEARS OF MIGRATIONS
STEP1: PREPARE/ASSESSMENT
STEP2: BACKUP STRATEGY/ROLLBACK
STEP2: BACKUP STRATEGY/RECYCLE BIN
STEP2: BACKUP STRATEGY/DISASTER & RECOVERY
http://www.gbandsmith.com/mitigate_backup_risks_disaster_recovery_in_sap_bo
STEP3: CLEAN UP (MOST IMPORTANT)
• Optimize the content to be migrated/before backup (step 10)!
STEP3: CLEAN UP/UNUSED CONTENT
STEP3: CLEAN UP/CLONE REPORTS
STEP3: CLEAN UP/DORMANT USERS
STEP3: CLEAN UP/INSTANCES
STEP3: CLEAN UP/INBOXES
STEP4: OPTIMIZE/UNIVERSES
STEP4: OPTIMIZE/BULK SWITCH UNV TO UNX
STEP4: OPTIMIZE/DESKI
STEP5: DEFINE LICENSE POOL
STEP6: IMPACT ANALYSIS/CALCULATION ENGINE
BEFORE 4.1 SP03 AFTER 4.1 SP03
Ex: Running Calculation not reset
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-39973
STEP6: IMPACT ANALYSIS/QUERY STRIPPING
http://scn.sap.com/people/cgnodtke/blog/2014/04/17/how-to-find-the-documents-impacted-by-calculation-engine-changes
STEP7: COMPARE/ SOURCE & TARGET
STEP7: COMPARE/ SOURCE & TARGET
STEP8: QUALIFY (MOST IMPORTANT)/DATA
http://www.gbandsmith.com/mitigate_sap_bo_conformity_risks_whitepaper
4.1 or whatever version output 4.2 output
STEP8: QUALIFY (MOST IMPORTANT)/PIXEL
4.1 or whatever version output 4.2 output
STEP9: PROMOTION/ DRAG&DROP
STEP9: PROMOTION/SCHEDULE LINK WITH ENTERPRISE JOB SCHEDULER
STEP10: SECURE/SETUP
STEP10: SECURE/DOCUMENT
Excel exports available:- Security matrix- User centric & Object centric
STEP10: SECURE/DOCUMENT
https://www.asug.com/discussions/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/41963-102-1-61554/3560%20Federal%20Mandate%20Annual%20Account%20Recertification%20within%20SAP%20BusinessObjects.pdf
STEP9: SECURE/GRC SOX, FISMA …
STEP1: PREPARE NEXT MIGRATION
- Keep control
- Recurring cleaning (automate it!)
- Predictive analysis
- Mitigate risks
MIGRATION PATH/20 YEARS OF MIGRATIONS
ROI
- Migration much faster. Saved months!
- Migration More Secure & Under Control
- Documentation/Audit of the system
- Less post Migration Assistance
- Mitigate risks
- Maintain accuracy and consistency of BusinessObjects reports
CONTACT
http://www.gbandsmith.com/optimize_migration_to_sap_bo_bi4
http://tinyurl.com/optimizemigration
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