BI 4 Upgrade Resources

This recorded KHNC webinar offers a complete overview of the upgrade path and technical implementation. For more information, see the associated presentation.

This step-by-step wiki article provides guidance for a complete upgrade. You can use it to perform upgrades in a sandbox environment to familiarize yourself with tools and processes.

In this article our friends from SAP IT walk us through their process upgrading one of the SAP internal BI platform to BI 4.0

The wiki documents known Issues with performing full and patch installations of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform BI 4.0 SP 4 Full and available solutions and workarounds.

This document provides an overview of security settings changes for Web Intelligence and Web Intelligence Rich Client 4.x

Everything you need to know about Audit and Monitoring in your BI 4 upgrade project

For recommendations, see the "General Guidelines" section. The provided templates will allow you to create a new audit schema.

Note: Audit records cannot be carried over unchanged because the auditing database in BI 4 has been modified.

This articles explains the purpose and location of release notes.

Guidelines on things to consider and how-to upgrade your Mobile BI server to BI 4

Read this note if you have problems with long run time, memory errors or hanging upgrade management tool.

This document explains the persistence of Linked Universes to persist in UNX universes for programmatic manipulation of Universe entities and definition of custom attributes in linked satellite Universes.

This note provides solutions for slow Webi performance with OLAP-based universes. In case of performance issues, check the proper sizing and configuration of your servers.

This article provides guidelines for conversion to Web Intelligence and includes information about the availability of features and possible workarounds.

Note: Desktop Intelligence will reach its end-of-life with XI 3.1 by end of 2015. Link to the End of Life statement

This Q&A summarizes the SAP plan to help customers pursue their Deski conversion projects on the BI 4 platform.

This article compares the different versions of Crystal Reports.

This article demonstrates the differences between Voyager and Analysis Edition for OLAP, explains how to use the upgrade management tool in BI 4 to convert SAP BusinessObjects Voyager workspaces from XI3.1 to BI 4, and includes information on known limitations of the workspace conversion process.

This document includes information on upgrading Dashboards (Xcelsius) add-ons to Adobe Flex SDK 4.0 for use with Dashboards 4.0 SP 4 or later.

This document covers the steps required for migrating Dashboard or SWF using QAAWS or Add Query (new feature on Dashboard Design 4.0) and includes information on best practices.

 

This article focuses on the following points: Identifying changes to be made, in order to keep the the same functionality as the legacy system. Identifying changes to be made, in order to take advantage of new capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x.

This article helps you anticipate possible change in behavior of your WebI reports due to changes or corrections made to the calculation engine across releases.

This article introduces the RESTful web services as the preferred way to build applications with BI 4.

Series of tools to help with bulk-upgrade of existing BI artifacts

In this blog Eric Vallo of EV Technologies walks us through his recommenations for a successful BI 4 project