Discoverer Reports and OBIEE

Hi,
Our Company has some Discoverer Reports and we would like to convert those reports into OBIEE. Has Oracle provided any migration or conversion utilities for this excercise? Please let us know.
Thanks and Regards,
-G

Hello
It depends how simple your workbooks are. The more complex they are the more difficult they are to migrate and some Discoverer features will be lost during the translations. Some Discoverer features will not migrate at all.
At this moment in time, with the current state of DOMA, I am coming down on the side of starting from scratch with OBIEE. There are, in my opinion, just too many of Discoverer's nice features that will not migrate. Starting from scratch will allow you to take advantage of all that OBIEE has to offer. Migrating could limit you to what Discoverer had to offer.
You could try a migration and see how much work there is still left to do. However, before you can do that you will need to upgrade Discoverer to 10.1.2.1 at the minimum. If you have already upgraded Discoverer to 10.1.2.1 or 11g you should be able to migrate the metadata. The only supported OBIEE version at this time is 10.1.3.4.1. After you have migrated to 10.1.3.4.1 you can then upgrade it to 11g.
Best wishes
Michael

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My bad, Sorry as I was speaking on EBS terms.
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Edited by: user10675696 on Feb 3, 2013 9:06 PM

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List of discoverer reports

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i you have you workbooks in your EUL (because older version allow to save it on the filesystem), you can query the eul for that.
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http://www.club-oracle.com/articles/details-of-discoverer-report-by-sql-query-317/
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