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We Will Miss You, Import Wizard
Ge#ng Acquainted with Content Migra5on Technologies in SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1
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My Company
EV Technologies is an SAP BusinessObjects solutions firm based in Australia and the United States • SAP Software Solutions Partner • SAP Certified Solutions provider • SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise and SAP HANA
Certified • Migration experts – classic BusinessObjects products
to SAP BusinessObjects XI R2 – BI4
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My Introduction
• Co-Founder and Managing Partner • Certified on SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise • Business Intelligence Architect for nearly15
years • Experience in managing systems ranging in
size between 100 and 30,000 users • 2011 SAP Mentor • SAP Press Author
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Shameless Plug
Available Now @ sappress.com
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Agenda
• Tools in the Toolbox • Upgrading Pre-BI4.1 • Migrating Within BI4.1 • Honorable Mentions • Wrap-up
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Tools in the Toolbox
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Migration Types
No single solution exists to satisfy all migration requirements in SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1
Upgrade Management Tool Promotion Management
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Tool Selection Criteria
• Upgrade Management Tool (UMT) – Migrating from versions of SAP BusinessObjects
prior to BI4.1 but after XI R2 SP2 – Requires conversion of content into the new
platform – Generally a one-off technology for upgrades
• Lifecycle Manager (LCM) – Migrating content between SAP
BusinessObjects environments running BI4 – OK to move between disparate BI4 versions – Used for both quick hit and recurring migrations
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Upgrading Pre-BI4.1
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The UMT
• A desktop tool deployed in the server installation of BI4.1
• Admins have the flexibility of mass migration or selectively migrating content through environments
• Supports migrations direct to system or via .biar
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Think Hard About the Big Move
• Migrations take time – Iterate through your migration to a test
environment many times – Develop regression test plans and execute before
the big move – Migrate in small chunks
• Die Deski – They aren’t moving
until BI4.1 • Review the object
log carefully
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Other Bits
Support for dependencies and dependent migrations
Characteristics from the Import Wizard carry forward to handle
conflicts
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Factory of Sadness
• Orphaned objects in repository – Clean them up with the Repository Diagnostic
Tool or the EVT handy Repo Fixer • Bad universe links – Reports that lose touch with their source over
time • Failed instances never
migrate • Ensure you have sufficient
disk in the target
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New in BI4.1
• Windows AD/LDAP mappings will remain intact
• Prerequisite servers are checked before migrating content and warns if not running
• New tracing parameters
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UMT Hacks
• Increase the heap for larger migrations • Use temporary file systems with more
storage for big moves • Migrate between BI4 landscapes..sshhhhh
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I never thought I’d say it, but I miss the Import Wizard already.
The Verdict
Good luck.
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Migrating Within BI4.1
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Promotion Management
Now conveniently located within the CMC….buuuuut renamed to Promotion Management
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The PM Scoop
PM is the appropriate mechanism to move reports between BI4 systems • PMis still no Import Wizard replacement • Stability is significantly enhanced • Vitally important that PM services are split
from other Adaptive Processing and Job Server components
• PM job sizes have a sweet spot at around 100 1,000-ish objects ONLY
• I dislike PM less in this release
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The Processes
• Part of the hairy Adaptive Processing Server split
• Requires at a minimum, the Promotion Management Service and optional ClearCase Service
• Works with the Wizard
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Why Promotion Management?
A technology that serves a somewhat narrow scope despite the many options • Schedule daily, weekly, monthly, etc. builds
to test environments • Migrate users, groups, and rights to
environments within the SDLC • Control the flow of code with manual
migration jobs • Really, not any more steps than we already
had in the Import Wizard
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What’s a Job?
Promotion jobs migrate one or more pieces of content between environments • Jobs organized by common folder make
jobs easy to find later • Rights can be set
at a folder level • Jobs can contain any
combination of content type
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How Do Jobs Work?
Jobs map a source to target and define the objects to migrate • CMS clusters are defined and retained for all
future migrations • Individual jobs select one
source and one target • The job itself is saved
to the same CMS PM is used from
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What’s in a Job?
With the job stubbed out, it just needs content • Add all content to be migrated in the move • Plan ahead: move rights, or not • Plan ahead: are dependencies needed?
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Deploying PM
Two schools of thought • An PM environment for each source system – Controls who seems PM where
• A single PM environment – Moves all content between dev, test, prod – Open to all
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Version Management
Promotion Management <> Version Management
• Version Management is a developer centric function
• Provides versioning for reports • Not necessarily an admin-centric function
but should be observed for review of history
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New in BI4.1
• Windows AD group support • New content type migrations: – Analytical Application – Information Steward – Design Studio – Desktop Intelligence
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Clustering
• Making Promotion Management HA • Leverages a share drive for SVN repository • Multiple SVN repositories are NOT
supported • Backup and recovery for SVN is as important
as the other content in your landscape, especially when versioning
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I never thought I’d say it, but I miss the Import Wizard already.
The Verdict
Good luck.
(again)
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Honorable Mentions
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Honorable Mentions
Content Federation • Replication services are much the same • Used to synchronize environments
automatically – Compared to simple content moves in PM
• Serves up predefined lists of content to be synchronized/published – Bi-directional moves supported
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Content Federation
Synchronize from the “master” to the “child” Synchronize from a target to the “master” Synchronize bi-directionally
Federation Server
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Honorable Mentions
Migrating Universes in .UNV format • In general, work without a hitch • Must be sensitive to 32-bit vs. 64-bit driver
requirements • Fairly smooth migrations to .UNX – Decide on multi-source requirements early
• Recent support for Explorer, for example, helps
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More Philosophy
Have you ever moved before?
It is time to simplify
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Resources
• http://evtechnologies.com/fun-with-the-bi4-upgrade-management-tool/
• http://evtechnologies.com/my-10-steps-to-get-to-bi4-4/
• http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/BI4+Upgrade+and+Promotion+Management+KBAs
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Questions?
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More Information
Contact: Eric Vallo Email: [email protected] On the Web: http://evtechnologies.com Twitter: @ericvallo