Impact of ECC 6 Upgrade on BI7.0

Hi Experts,
We are on BI 7.0 ( Netweaver 2004S ) and Source system is ECC5 . Our company is in the process of Technical Upgrade from ECC5 to ECC6 with unicode and Ehp4.
Current setup is
BI 7.0 SP 19 Non Unicode Oracle 10g
ECC 5 Non Unicode Oracle 10g
I would like to know the Impact of ECC6 upgrade on my BI system.
1) We have lot of customization in BI extractor .
2) Various Abap routines written for transformation . will there be any change for unicode.
3) Is there any impact on deltas or Do we need to reinitialise the deltas.
Thanks,

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Contents
1 Upgrading from BW 3.0B to BW 7.0 (Netweaver 2004s)
2 Introduction
3 Overview & Scope
4 Drivers
5 Environment
6 Resource & Timescales
7 High Level Plan
8 Summary Task List
8.1 #Support Pack Hike
8.2 #Plug-in installation
8.3 #PREPARE process
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8.5 #System Upgrade
9 Lessons Learnt
10 Issues & Fixes
10.1 Unfixed Issues
10.2 Fixed Issues
11 Regression Testing Process
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Set up
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13.1 Dashboards
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Introduction
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Rob Moore - BW Manager, Edwards Limited.
Overview & Scope
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Drivers
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Environment
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Resource & Timescales
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Project Manager * 1 70%
BW technical team * 3 50%
ABAP coder * 1 10%
SAP Systems Development expert * 1 20%
Basis * 1 25%
High Level Plan
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Dbase upgrades (Database & SAP Kernel upgrade)
System Upgrade
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Apply SP's (we were at SP18, going to SP20)
SPAU list review
Regression testing
#Plug-in installation
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SPAU list review
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BW Pre-Prepare tasks
BW - Inconsistent Data fix
Run PREPARE
Review of results
Any showstoppers from PREPARE?
#Dbase upgrades
Database Upgrade (FixPak)
SAP Kernel Upgrade
#System Upgrade
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Reconnect DAB & SAB to AAE
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Run the Upgrade
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Lessons Learnt
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Set up
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Web Applications
Dashboards
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Hi GjEPCons ,
The Ess/mss application are standard some application webdynpro java and web dynpro abap so nothing happen upgrade one version to another version in backend and bi reports also but we can check the system object if case any thing happen ,
Ecc 5.0 and Ecc 6.0 nothing more change some features have add in Ecc 6.0 so we dont bother tome to upgrading .
Upgrade from ECC 5.0 to ECC 6.0
Hope this information help s to you
Thanks&Regards,
G.srinu

Delta Timestamps in ECC when upgrading BW3 to BI7

Hi,
We are about to do a technical upgrade of our BW 3.1 system to BI 7.0. BW currently contains a large volume of CO-PA Sales and HR Payroll data that are managed through Delta extractions from ECC6.
When BW has upgraded to BI, can we realistically expect that Deltas will continue without any problems.
I understand that the CO-PA time/datestamp for deltas is stored in Table TKEBWTSN and that the HR Payroll time/datestamp for deltas is stored in Table hrms_bw.
Should we backup these tables before the upgrade, so that if the first delta extracts fails, it would be possible to rerun them after updating these tables.
Are there any other precautions that we could take? Unfortunately our development BI system is not set up for Deltas from an ECC source, so we are unable to properly test.
Any suggestions or feedback on managing Deltas during and postupgrade to BI7 would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Leanne

Hello Leanne,
See this [Best Practice for Upgrade NetWeaver 7.0BI |https://websmp110.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000982302007E]
[SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Business Intelligence Upgrade Specifics|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/10564d5c-cf00-2a10-7b87-c94e38267742]
SAP Note 424848 P18SDLInit sels in source sys lost after upgrade 1.2-2.0 (Applies to BI 7.x)
Note 955990 - BI in SAP NetWeaver 7.0: Incompatibilities with SAP BW 3.x
Note 853507 - Release Restr.: Usage Type BI of SAP NetWeaver 2004s
Please see this link for all [BI7.0 Related upgrade info|https://websmp110.sap-ag.de/upgrade-bi]
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