BO 6.5 to BI 4.1 Migration

[Former Member]

Hello Everyone,

We need to do a migration from  SAP BO 6.5 to BI 4.1.

Below are the types of  report which will need to be migrated to the new environment :

1. Webi to Webi

2. Deski to Webi

3. Free hand SQL report

4. VBA based report

Can anyone suggest me the steps to perform the migration process?

Any help will be appreciated.

Regards,

[CdnConnection]

Ritesh,

    As mentioned others only issue will be VBA, NOT supported going forward.  Would strongly suggest upgrading to XI 3.1 w/ SP7 first and then BI 4.1 w/ SP6.

See migration roadmap below

Regards,

Ajay

[former_member182521]

refer this Master link to know about everything on BI 4.x upgrade

All you need to know before upgrading to BI4.0 - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) - SCN Wiki

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-56525

https://www.sapbi.com/upgrade/

[amitrathi239]

Hi,

Before migration approach go through by document/white papers,you wil get lots of documnets in google for approach.

some are:

http://www.cosmos-consulting.fr/download/Best%20Practices%20-%20Upgrading%20to%20BI%204.0.pdf

Amit

[Former Member]

VBA doesn't exist in BO4.1 so you'll need to figure out what the VBA macros do and how to replace that functionality.

Webi and Desk reports should translate fine.

For Free hand SQL reports, you'll need to be on 4.1 SP6 to support them.

To migrate to BO4 directly, you'll need to be on at least XIr2 SP4

I'd recommend a migration to XI3 from 6.5 consolidate what you have and confirm it works and then look at migrating up from XI3 to BO4.

This document should help you with an overall plan and deal with several questions. I'd suggest you raise any other report-specific questions in their own threads.

http://www.cosmos-consulting.fr/download/Best%20Practices%20-%20Upgrading%20to%20BI%204.0.pdf

Good luck.

Regards,

Mark