Migration from business object to oraclediscoverer

Question

Sir,
We are interested in moving universes in business object to
business area in oracle discoverer. we must do this in order to
use discoverer. can you give details and utilities to archieve
this in oracle. this is urgent.
Larry.

Answer 1

Hi,
My ex-company used to use BA for reporting, and subsequently they moved over to PCA.... with minimal impact of course.
A few considerations :
1. Is your PCA active?  Rightfully the profit centres are usually set up as statistical cost collector.... but you might need to check if there is any configuration that prevents cost/revenue from posting into PCA
2. Is the hierarchy in PCA properly set up?  Functionally speaking, BA is no difference to PCA since they are both measuring the business by funcational area.... You can create standalone hierarchies in PCA to capture the business reporting, such as legal reporting structures, or Line of Business structures.
3. What kind of reporting is used for Business area.... are they present in PCA?
I think you'd have to think through the steps carefully... if point 1 is met, the change in reporting would be simple enough.  Otherwise, you would have to consider how to bridge the data gap.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Gimmo