Type of problem  Upgrading SAP Business Intelligence

Can you post your experience on problems that you met in upgrade of release for SAP BI?
Please, describe
1) Upgrading: example BW3.0 to 7
2) Stability of system (early version SP1, SP2 or stable SP20 et so on)
3) type of OBJECT: InfoOBJ, ODS, Cubes, Auth, Query, Layouts, Web
4) type of problem
5) how you encountered problem ( user testing, developer testing)
6) type pf test (with standard program....custom, manual)
6) type of resolution ( with notes, SP...)
8 point for every interesting answer.
Thank you,
Claudio

Hi,
First and foremost you need to understand that when you upgrade from a BW 3.x ver to 04s (BI 7) , there's a lot of changes as the 04s upgrade brings in a lot of changes. First and foremost you need to deal with the Java component. There's going be changes to your ODS, rules, etc.
So the recommended path is first do a technical upgrade and then convert to the functional upgrade in parts.
You also need to look at impacts to any third party tools like ETL, crystal, etc during the upgrade.
There's significant changes to the Security too.
For testing first start from your lab env (if any) mostly for looking to see what problems you'll encounter during the actual upgrade itself.
Then move onto a sandbox client and do thorough baseline testing before the upgrade.
You'll have to test all functionalites, security, reporting, customizations , basically everything under the sun and you might still miss something.
Once the upgrade is done, you have to do post upgrade testing against the baseline logs. Its here that you'll come across and catch errors. Mostly they'll have corrections for these through OSS notes. Its recommended you use Solution Manager for this upgrade as well.
If you don't find any solutions through OSS then you need to create a message for SAP again through OSS.
Before you begin though go through all the release notes and features that 04S brings with it to understand how and where the impacts will be to your system.
Cheers,
Kedar

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