List Major problems in BI 7.0

[Former Member]

Hello BW Experts,

We are in the debating to start the BI 7.0 implementation or not. your experience with the new implementions could help us to decide.

what are the major problems of BI 7.0 ( backend)

please share your experience. If possible we could make this a list.

Thanks in advance,

BWer

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

first of all, if you upgrade to BI 7.0 all the BI 3.5 features are still available.

You are not forced to use any new feature of BI7.0 (except process chains and authorisations)

So this means, after your technical upgrade you can decide to use which new feature or function you really need and you want to use. eg. BIA. To leverage the BIA you just need to perform a technical upgrade to BI 7.0. All 3.5 queries can leverage the BIA. All you need to do is deleting your aggregates

The technical upgrade is not that issue and is usually done very fast.

I hope this helps,

Michael

[former_member192249]

Depends on FEP and SP what u are going to start with.

We started with FEP 7 and SP 7 and had lot of issues which were fixed in later FEP and SP.

Front end Issues compared to 3.5:

FEP 12 and SP 11.

Variant - not saved for workbooks.

Issue with queries whose length is > 25 charactersitics

Jump Queries -

Mandatory variable are not popped up in the jump queries

Sorting -

Sorting does not work for all queries

Rgds

Dinesh

[Former Member]

am not sure what it means by problems as technical issues are part and parcel of any Products .

However some Insights most important while considering data model is as below

Hope it Helps

Chetan

@CP..