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Upgrade to SAP BW 7.4

Inspiricon Best Practice

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An upgrade should be treated as an opportunity to maximize the value from the investments made in SAP, bringing the latest and most optimized business processes in practice.

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Reduce TCO IT Consolidation Improved Usability

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1. Reasons for upgrading

2. Upgrade Process (Test Approach, Upgrade Project Timeline)

3. Upgrade Technical Plan (Preupgrade, Upgrade and Postupgrade Checklist)

4. Upgrade Resources (Project Organigram, Roles and Responsibilities, Communication Matrix)

5. Challenges & Recommendations

6. Workshop timeline

7. Project Approach

Agenda

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1. Reasons for upgrading to BW 7.4 on HANA

Simple Flexible Performant

Modern Environment Eclipse based modelling

editors Composite Provider New Query Designer

Less Modelling Objects Advanced DSO Composite Provider

BPC Unified (Business Planning Consolidation)

Leverage highly specialized libraries HANA specialized

libraries

SQL to BW HANA artifact via SQL

incorporated into BW

BW to SQL HANA Views

Querying + Loading DSO Activation Loading BW features

executed closed to data

Less Administration Effort Decrease TCO

Big Data HANA extended storage

capability

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Copy of Production System

Setup critical interfaces

Snapshot of important Applications before

Upgrade preparation and execution

System acceptance test

Snapshot of important Applications after

Business pretests (optional)

Issue solving enhancements

Establish CloneSystem

Test Cycle 1: CloneSystem

Development System

Quality System

Test Cycle 2: Quality

Production System

Implementation freeze


System critical checks/tests

Import of enhancements from clone system

Business/IT tests: Snapshot before


Import of enhancements

IT-System checks (wide scope)

Quality System release to Business

IT tests

Business tests

Issue Solving


Import of enhancements and IT checks

System Release to Business

Hyper-Care phase (e.g. two weeks) for Incident solving

2. Inspiricon Upgrade Process – Best Practices

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2. Inspiricon Test Approach for SAP BW Upgrade 7.4

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2. Inspiricon Upgrade Project Timeline

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Preupgrade

Upgrade

Postupgrade Checklist

Prepare necessary changes of DDIC elements

Check InfoObject consistency

Check upgrade prerequisites

Check outdated objects for outdated functions

ASU Toolbox BASIS performing the upgrade process

IT Team intervenes in case of errors during the upgrade process

Mass activation of TRFN, transfer rules

Check Customer exit variables

Basic IT testing Check authorizations Check Interface connections

3. Inspiricon Upgrade Technical Plan

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4. Inspiricon Project Organigram

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IT Team with Technical LeadClose contact with Project manager, Test Manager, IT (BASIS and Application team)

Working side-by-side with BI-IT team

Business TeamUpgrade prerequisite checks, preparations and performing upgrade from application side / ABAP fixes needed for 7.4 DDIC

element changes

SAP Basis Team



Weekly meetings Test Cases Coverage and

Execution Progress

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Communicate status and project timeline

Additional meetingsare set-up in case it is necessary

Test Progress (Test Phase)

Steering Committee:

Meeting for taking decision to Go-Live

Status Meeting –Business Team

4. Communication Matrix


5. Challenges & Recommendations

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Challenges

– Clone system could be difficult to establish (infrastructure and all connections to other systems)

– Prepare test cases (definition phase, before/after tests)

– Prepare data for test cases – clear communication with business, what data is available as test basis for which system (clone system and quality system)

– Project schedule – consider business resources for pre-testing

Recommendations

– Create an overview over the applications that were impacted by the upgrade and related actions (e.g. hardware move).

– Create an overview for system landscape to identify all affected interfaces and connected systems.

– Dedicate resources for testing – test manager.

– Overview of parallel projects – additional focus on multi-project management.



Inspiricon sends questionnaire to customer

Customer sends existing documents/answers about the system/project to Inspiricon

Inspiricon processes the received information and finalizes the workshop agenda

Introduction to the customer landscape and structure

Customer presents the project charter and expectations (resources, test procedure, deadline, external factors, etc.)

Q&A: Customer / Inspiricon

Inspiricon prepares the next day based on the input

PreparationDay 1

Onsite with customer

Day 2Onsite with customer

Finalization

Inspiricon presents its understanding of customer project needs on the high-level

Discussion about open points/issues

Inspiricon and customer align the project plan

Summary project plan discussion plus definition of next steps

Execution of defined steps

Inspiricon makes a customized offer based on the workshop output

6. Workshop timeline


7. Project Approach

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Inspiricon presents understanding of customer project needs on the high-level

Discussion about open points/issues, where there is a need for more detail

Inspiricon and customer align the project plan (resources, schedule, etc.)

Summary project plan discussion plus definition of next steps and Q&A

Closing

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