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Nov 06, 2012 at 06:32 AM

[Upgrade] From an ancient Product Seagate Info 7.5 to BI 4.0

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Dear experts,

Recently I am studying the possibilities to upgrade all the existing reports (.rpt), (some are using business view manager) with users and groups. However, I have some doubt on the overall upgrade path and approach therefore I may need your advises!

Not surprisingly, there is no direct upgrade to 4.0 or even R2 using import wizard or upgrade management tool. I suppose the standard approach should be as below: CI 7.5 -> BOXI -> BOXI R2/3.1 (but i will take 3.1 if this is the case) -> BI 4.0.

As you can see, it took 3 times upgrade to completed which is time-consuming, high risk and I don't there is any XI environment we can install now . Therefore, I wonder if we can directly use crystal report designer 2008 / 2011 and directly open .rpt and publish to BI 4.0 repository. Is there any similar experience that you all can share with? I really appreciate that!

Besides, if there any document that I can obtain in order to find out the supported platform(connectivity) / comparsion between seagate info with SAP BO e.g. XI 3.1? Seems there are not much information i can find now.

Thank you for your help.