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We are in the process of consider upgrade of our present BI-7.0 (EhP1) to the latest BW 7.30 version,I was able to read a document released by SAP on BW7.3 in the month of April this year and also read all the blogs related to 7.3 , but I would like to understand the impact or benefits our company will get when we upgrade our BW system to latest version in detail So
I would like to know
1)BW 7.3 differentiators
a) What additional features are being added? ( I know a new function called Dataflow Generation wizard , and changes in the
      Infopackage for automatic Init loads , and semantic partions of DSO and Cubes are added, But would like to what are other
       features or changes which are added ?)
b)How BO integration works with BW 7.3?( As the document says , it will easy to integerate BOE , may you please detail me how
    and why the integeration is simplified , and how the integeration of Crystal report server or Xeclius tool will work , Is Cystal
   Report server or Xeclius provided as a default Add on to the new SAP Netweaver BW7,3 server, or will we have to maintain
them seperately on different machines/servers?)
c)What are the front-end tools for BW 7.3? ( are any new front end tools added, will our BEx Query designer or explorer are still
    supported with 7.3?)
2. Upgrade options/considerations
     a)How to upgrade to BW 7.3?( presently we are SAP netweaver 2004s 7.0 and recently installed EhP1 , so for BW7.3 we
         need to install EhP3 or do we need to change for present server
      b)Prerequisites to the Upgrade( Any hard ware limitation, or any server specifications or any mandatory things like BWA?)
      c)What are the minimum H/W and Front-end requirements?
3. Compatibility
    a)What are the ECC, CRM, SRM,.... versions that BW 7.3 will be compatible?
    b)How does the BEx reports will work on BW 7.3?
    c)Is WAD supported on BW 7.3?
    d)Will Admin Cockpit works on BW 7.3?
    e)Are BW security roles work on BW 7.3?
Thanks in Advance
Krishna
NOTE: I had already gone through the SAP PPT released in the month of April , But was not able to get answers to my above question , so request you not to point again to the same PPT .
Edited by: krishna dvs on Oct 20, 2010 8:48 AM

Hello All,
I am also doing a BW7.3 upgrade and wondering if you have a project plan I could leverage.
Sorry to impose like, however I am at a disadvantage since I never did a BW upgrade before.
Would you be able to assist?
Thanks so much.
Russ Smith (Chicago)....
C 847-910-8360

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