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2008 Wellesley Information Services. All rights reserved.

Best practices for creatinga sound strategy and athorough plan for yourSAP NetWeaver BusinessIntelligence upgrade

Dr. Bjarne Berg

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What Well Cover

Why upgrade

End of supportNew support strategy & NetWeaver

New features and capabilities

Creating an upgrade strategy for the futureContent Vs. Technical upgrades

Upgrades with NetWeaver

Planning and Executing the upgradeThe upgrade plan

The business case

Staffing, duration and scope Examples

Wrap up

Bonus material: ideas for the business case

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Why Upgradeend of support

Many upgrades are driven by end of support for a certain release.

SAP has now created a 5-1-2 maintenance system that consists of:- mainstream maintenance

- extended maintenance

- customer-specific maintenance

BW

Version

Release

date

End o f mainstream

maintenance2.0B 8/14/00 12/31/2005

2.1C 12/18/00 12/31/2005

3.0A 11/15/01 12/31/2005

3.0B 5/13/02 12/31/2006

3.1C 11/11/02 12/31/2006

3.2 3/31/03 12/31/2006

3.3 8/30/03 12/31/2006

3.5 3/31/04 3/31/2010

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Going forward, SAP will provide five years of mainstream (standard)

maintenance, with the option to extend their maintenance coverage for aperiod of up to three years for small premiums over the standard

maintenance rate.

1. Five years of mainstream maintenance at the standard maintenance fee

2. One year of extended maintenance at an additional two percent maintenance fee*

3. Two more years of extended maintenance at an additional four percent maintenance

fee per year*. After these eight years, customer-specific maintenance begins, providing

a program of support and services uniquely tailored to individual customerrequirements.

The plan covers SAP solutions based on the SAP NetWeaver platform

including mySAP SCM, SRM, PLM, CRM, and industry add-ons.

The 5-1-2 maintenance strategy

*check with your account executive to see what your fee may be

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The Bigger Picture NetWeaver ??

NetWeaver is a set

of solutioncomponents that

provides a

comprehensive

architecture.

All components of NetWeaver can use the same operating system

release, and the same database release. All components can be run

within a single physical server if it is a small configuration, thereby

reducing the management of many systems & databases

VisualComposer BI

Kit

VisualComposer BI

Kit

UDI

XMLASAP

Query

JDBC ODBO

Business Explorer Suite (BEx)

BEx Query Designer

Information Broadcasting

Web

Analyzer

Web

Application

Designer

MS Excel

Add-in

Report

Designer

BEx Web

DB

Connect BAPI

Service

API File XML/A

BEx AnalyzerBI Pattern

BI Consumer Services

BI Platform

Data Warehouse

Enterprise Portal

Analytic Engine Meta Data Mgr

KM

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Why Upgrade to NW BI 7.x?

One of the major reasons for upgrading your BW environment is the

availability of new content and features in the next release. Let us takea look at some of the major new features of version BI 7.x:

Web Application Designer

BI Accellerator

BEx Broadcaster

BEx Query Designer

BEx Report Designer

ReModeling Toolbox

Security Changes

New ETL Interface

BPS Integrated Planning

PDF print

Real-time data warehousing

BEx Web Analyzer

We will now take a quicklook at these features

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Web Application Designer is improved

The Web Application Designer is improved with new chart types (Heat Map, GANTT &

Milestone Trend Analysis), as well as new layout elements such as tab strips.

WAD also has new step-

by-step wizards for maps,

command editing to

create Web API

Commands and charts, as

well as a simplified wizard

for layout elements such

as radio buttons, action

buttons etc.

This reduce the amount

of custom coding

required with the help of

Command wizards, Auto

complete and support for

HTML tags.

WAD is a key tool

for all SAP BI shops

and in BI 7.x the

tool is simplifiedand more powerful.

New: Integration with

NW BI 7.x BEx Report

Designer.

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Why upgrade? - BI Accellerator for BI 7.x

The SAP BI

accelerator makes

query response time50-10,000 faster.

You use process

chains to maintain

the HPA engine after

each data load

HP, Sun and IBM have standard solutions rangingfrom $32K to $250K+ that can be installed and

tested in as little as 2-4 weeks (+ SAP license fees)

SAP

BW

Any

tool

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New Object Types

You can broadcast BEx query views and

formatted reports (reports) in addition to Webapplications, queries and workbooks. Reports

are a new BEx object type developed within the

new BEx Report Designer tool.

New Output Formats

New output formats are based on the

distribution type you select. But, you now canbroadcast web documents as PDF files.

New Broadcaster features of BI 7.x

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New Distribution Types

You can broadcast to any printer using

Adobes PDF, Printer Common Language(psl) or Post Script (ps). (hint: Set up the

printers under tools CCMS print).

You to broadcast user-specific information

based on attributes in the master data

attributes using a distribution list in BI

(bursting of emails). The information can be

controlled by the system so that users only

see data related to them.

New Broadcaster features of BI 7.x

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New Broadcaster Features of BI 7.x (cont.)

Exception broadcasting is now available in the

Broadcaster. Create the exceptions in the querydesigner and select distribution type in the

broadcaster. You can also use additional

distributions types (subordinate) and create rules

for when the exception report is monitored/

executed. Exceptions can be based on singleevents or levels of any performance measure.

You can use multiple distribution types to create

a setting that broadcasts over many channels

(e.g., the printer and the portal).

NOTE: To manage all alerts and workflow tasks

from a single location, an alert is integrated with

the portals universal worklist in the central

alert framework of NW application server.

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To increase the performance of key queries, you

can fill the OLAP Cache, or the MDX Cache. This isuseful if you have large numbers of users

accessing a query, or you have a query that

accesses a high volume of data.

The Fill Precalculation Store distribution typeallows you to precalculate Web templates, and the

Precalculate Value Set option allows you to fill

precalculated value set variables with values for

characteristic values. The precalculated value sets

are then available as variable values in BEx queries.

Old Reporting Agent scenarios still run in NetWeaver BI 7.x.

However, the Reporting Agent will not be developed any further and

is removed from the BI 7.x Workbench. You can now only reach the

Reporting Agent using transaction code REPORTING_AGENT

New Broadcaster Features of BI 7.x (cont.)

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Better web printing leveraging PDF and web controls

PDF based BEx Web printing now

include a variety of functionality,

such as:

1. Fit to page width

2. Repeat column headers

3. Fit to one page4. Wallpaper

5. Page margins

6. Export Themes (e.g. black &

white)

7. Format & Allignment

8. Additional Headers & Footers

9. Print graphics and tables

10.Batch Printing via Broadcaster

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BEx Query Designer gets a facelift

The 3.5x BExQuery Designer

Note:

The BI 7.x BExQuery Designer

This new property pane makes it

easier to format and controldisplays than in the past.

You can choose if

you want the old or

the new look after

the upgrade

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Why upgrade? - BEx Report Designer

This new 7.x tool was

created to simplifythe formatting of

reports and fix many

of the printing issues

in previous versions

of BW.

We now get color

control, header-

footer control and

many new features

such as locationcontrol of cells and

integration of

pictures, charts and

fixed text. For many, this tool may reduce the need for

3rd

party tools to address structured reports.

Source: SAP AG, 2008

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Why upgrade? The Remodeling Tool Box

In the first releases of BI 7, youcould not transport the newmodels, now you can. You canalso:

Remove, exchange, replace, add &fill dimension characteristics and keyfigures.

NOTE: during (dictionary-based)conversion process, queries are not

possible; aggregates will beautomatically deactivated and mustbe rebuilt afterwards

NW BI 7.x goes a long way to address the complaints that BW is a hard to maintainenvironment with forever fixed models.

Source: SAP AG, RichardBrown, Aug. 2008

In BI 7.x you get a new tool to add characteristics and key figures to your model.

In older BW versions, if you forgot to include a field in your infocube , the rework was

quite substantial and often involved reloading the infocube as well.

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Why upgrade? - Better security features

There are many new security features inNW BI 7.x, and a conversion is needed (all

or nothing).

Role menus are displayed in the portaland passwords becomes case sensitive.

Authorizations arefundamental building

blocks of the newreporting concept andsecurity contains both

the data value and

hierarchy restrictions.

The new security can bebuilt using newRSECADMIN

transaction

ASUG Security Upgrade by Eric Dwyer, Nike: http://www.asug.com/client_files/Calendar/Upload/EA1_upgrade_bw_security_2.ppt

Source: SAP AG

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Why upgrade? - More Authorization Objects

You get the ability touse much lower

security granularity fordevelopers and users!!

Source: SAP AG July 2008

Authorization objects for the Data Warehousing Workbench:S_RS_DS: For the DataSource or its sub objects (BI 7.x)S_RS_ISNEW: For new InfoSources or their sub objects (NW BI 7.x)

S_RS_DTP: For the data transfer process and its sub objectsS_RS_TR: For transformation rules and their sub objectsS_RS_CTT: For currency translation typesS_RS_UOM: For quantity conversion typesS_RS_THJT: For key date derivation typesS_RS_PLENQ: Authorizations for maintaining or displaying the lock settingsS_RS_RST: Authorization object for the RS trace toolS_RS_PC: For process chainsS_RS_OHDEST: Open Hub Destination

Authorization objects for the Business Explorer:S_RS_DAS: For Data Access ServicesS_RS_BTMP: For BEx Web templatesS_RS_BEXTX: Authorizations for the maintenance of BEx texts

Authorization objects for the Admin of analysis authorizations

S_RSEC: Authorization for assignment and administration of analysis authorizationsS_RS_AUTH: Authorization object to include analysis authorizations in roles

Changed Authorization Objects:S_RS_ADMWB (Data Warehousing Workbench: Objects):

New sub objects:

CONT_ACT

Installing Business Content; USE_DND - Drag & Drop to InfoAreas andapplication components; CNG_RUN - Attribute change run

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Upgrading to BI 7.x Security

More Great Details about

the Security Upgrade at :

http://csc-studentweb.lrc.edu/swp/Berg/Articles/ BI

7.x_Authorizations.pdf

(Source: Amelia Lo, SAP)

SAP has created an ABAP migration tool to help you upgrade security inNW BI 7.x. To access it, goto transaction code SA38, and execute

migration program RSEC_MIGRATION.

About 80% of you security setup is expected to make it using this tool.i.e. customer exit variables for the object 0TCTAUTHH does not migrate,and you will have to manually reassign all hierarchy nodes.

While you upgrade, the old security is left intact and you can switchback if absolutely needed (IMG setting). Plan to testtest..and test

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Why Upgrade? - Better interface for ETL Design

SAP NetWeaver BI

7.x has a new and

better GUI and

formula editors to

write complex

transfer rules,

update rules and

data mapping.

On a typical DW project, 40-60% of project effort will be spenton data integration, transformation and loads (used to be

higher when tools were more immature).

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Why upgrade? - BPS Integrated Planning (still supported)

You can now create planning templates using the web based planning wizard to createmodels using patterns in the data (tool: Road map Pattern). Queries based onaggregation levels can now also write back to the InfoProvider

1 2 3 4 5 6

InfoProvider Aggregation Level Planning SequencePlanning FunctionFilter Pattern


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Why upgrade?PDF Print

You can also use the PDF to create

reports based on BEx webapplications, queries and reportsusing the Adobe DS (comes with BI7.x).

The only Gotchas.. Your users nowneed to install Acrobat Reader(free at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html).

The PDF document can also beBroadcasted through BExBroadcaster

The PDF options allows companies to

protect reports from changes by

employees by taking a snapshot of the

data regardless of subsequent updates

to the data warehouse.

Risks: no link back to SAP BW is

needed and security is not validated.

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Why upgrade? - Real-time Data warehousing gets better

NW BI 7.x has more features for updates that does not follow thetypical asynchronomous (batch) updates. This include:

1. We can use XML to fill the PSA directly2. Daemon-based update from delta queue (BW API)3. Daemon-based update of the ODS and minimal logging

Note: XML documents

creates many tags that will

slow down large dataloads

due to the size of each XMLrecord (relatively large)

However, it works great for

smaller streams of data.

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Why upgrade? - BEx web Analyzer integrates Excel

The Excel integration in the BEx

analyzer is far better.

Unlike the old days of dynamicHTML, you can now use the BExanalyzer more like a realapplication without refreshing thewhole page every time you clickon something (this is due to theJava component in BI 7.x)


News: BEx browser

went away in BI 7.x

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Why upgrade? - Drag-and Drop in BeX web Analyzer

You can drag acharacteristics into a filter

area and automatically filteron that value, and you canalso drag it into a columnheader or a a row.

Building conditions andactivating them was oftenconfusing in earlier versionsand exception basedreporting was sometimes noteasy to create for beginningusers. BI 7.x has nowsimplified this with morewizards that helps users to

build this step-by-step.

BEx web analyzer is a better user toolthan in the past. You now get the best

world of Java & the web instead ofthe more clunky user experience

related to Dynamic HTML

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What Well Cover

Why upgrade

End of supportNew support strategy & NetWeaver





The business case

Staffing, duration and scope

Examples

Wrap up


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BW Content Upgrades

Apply content when you need it, to the technical release you have!!

The new upgrade strategy from SAP is to provide BW technicalreleases as part of NetWeaver and BI content add-ons,

You do not need to perform a technical upgrade to update the

business content.

We now have SAP BI 7.0 and the content releases 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 and

7.0.3 are now available. Planned upgrades should also include the

content release 7.0.3.

Details around each content release is available at http://help.sap.comThe current content (7.0.3) is available at: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/ 44/16e6f7a6f30d19e10000000a114a6b/RN_703_en_final.pdf

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How can you weigh the choices of Technical or Functional?

Technical Functional

Opportunity to Sunsetother BI solutions

Increased UserSatisfaction

Tons of NewFunctionality

Longer Project

Less Functionality

Less Risk

Less Money

Less Time

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Source: SAP AG

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Weighing Towards a Technical Upgrade

A technical upgrade is

the safest way toproceed

It is also the fastest and

the least expensive

Your user community will

notice little to no change

UNTIL you start rollingout the new functionality

Source: SAP AG

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Weighing Towards a Functional Upgrade

A functional upgrade (which

includes all the technicalactivities) will make the

biggest impression on your

user community

This will take longer

and cost more money

You will be able to sunset

other solutions sooner

You will get the most

benefits from usability and

management


Source: SAP AG

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An Upgrade Strategy

Think bigger than BW..

Apply content as soon as feasible. Especially if you

have on-going development work. This way you can

avoid many work-arounds.

You should seriously consider having all NetWeavercomponents on the same upgrade strategy instead of

selecting each component for upgrade. This will help in

the shared extractors and also substantially simplify the

upgrade planning and landscape.

Look at SAPs release strategy for each component youare using and plan ahead,instead of last-minute must-do projects.

Tip

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Some hints on the upgrade client, engines and usage types

We are in a transition period,

when some items of BI 7.x areseparate engines, some are

clients, and other are usage

types.

Key question: is you

organization committed to java

and the new BI 7.x direction?

-- if so, go java all the way..

Source: SAP Installable

software units

Note: standard system copy and SAP

migration tools have no standard

support for splitting or merging

systems with different usage types

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Some upgrade choices the architecture

Note: Depending on your current installation of

SAP BW, you have different upgrade options

Upgrade Or

Source: SAP AG May 2006

Upgrade Or

Upgrade Or

1

2

3

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What Well Cover

Why upgradeEnd of support

New support strategy & NetWeaver





The business case


Examples

Wrap up


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Typical Training Requirements

Functional Upgrade

Development TeamDelta Training

(DBW70E)

Report / PresentationTeam Delta Training

(DBW70R)

Integrated PlanningTraining (DBW70P)

User Training for newtools

Technical UpgradeBasis Training on new solution, if necessary

Could also be handled via Knowledge Transfer fromIntegration Partner

Basic Mgmt of Netweaver Portal (if deploying)

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Upgrade Pre-planning

It is important to communicate the goals and timings to the technical

team to help them prioritize their research and activity or hardware setup

Communicate goal of having existing content continue to work to

functional test team, so they do not get hung up in testing new features

before the upgrade is in production.

You need to have the SAP solution Manager to generate the key during

the upgrade to NW2004 SR1, and you will need to be on Solution

Manager release 3.2 SP8 or higher to make it work (note: 805390).

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BW

Version

Release

date

End of mainstream

maintenance

Can be upgraded to

2.0B 8/14/00 12/31/2005 2.1C, 3.0B, 3.1C, 3.50/3.51

2.1C 12/18/00 12/31/2005 3.0B, 3.1C, 3.50/3.513.0A 11/15/01 12/31/2005 3.0B, 3.1C, 3.50/3.51

3.0B 5/13/02 12/31/2006 3.1C, 3.50/3.51

3.1C 11/11/02 12/31/2006 3.2 and 3.3 must be applied before 3.5

3.2 3/31/03 12/31/2006 3.3 must be applied before 3.5

3.3 8/30/03 12/31/2006 3.5

3.5 3/31/04 3/31/2010

NetWeaver BI 7.x Upgrade paths

Still supported

Current Release NW 2004s Release/support

BW 3.5 (min. SP04) and ABAP, any content release (3.5.x)

BW 3.1c (min. SP14) content 3.2 or 3.3

BW 3.0B (min SP20)

BW 2.1C (min. SP18)

BW 2.0B (min. SP26 & Basis SP29)

Other

SAP BI 3.5 Java components (i.e. UDI) on WAS-Java System with usage type SAP AS Java

NetWeaver 2004s usage type ABAP,

(usage BI java and EP can be add-ins or

separate systems.

Must be upgraded to SAP BW 3.5 first and

then BI7.0 (upgrade with NetWeaver 2004s

Support release 1)

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Some hints Upgrade programs SAPup and SAPjup

You will need to install the NetWeaver Application Server Java and the

specific user type, before you can use all the features of BI 7.x (i.e.Business planning and analysis services, Enterprise data

warehousing, Reporting and analysis scenarios etc). You can install

this as a separate system or as an add-in to the upgraded ABAP

server.

SAP provides a software program called SAPup to help you upgrade

the WAS (ABAP) and SAP BW. It is called a system switch upgrade.

Note: if you already have java installed, you can also use the upgradeprogram called SAPjup, to upgrade the WAS-java.

If the WAS-J ava was installed on the same system as the WAS-ABAP (as an add-in) you need to run both the SAPup and SAPjup

programs in parallel (see the Master upgrade guide for more details).

S hi t th d U i d i

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Some hints on the upgrade - Unicode conversion

Unicode has been available since BW version 3.5.1. and is now

highly recommended as part of the upgrade (hint web applicationdesigner is now also unicode compliant).

Some things to remember and plan for:

Area Recommended increased capacity

Memory 20%

Processing power 20-25%

Disk space 20-30%45-50%

Pl i Y U d H d E l

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Planning Your Upgrade a Hardware Example

Production

12 CPU

96GB RAM

Sandbox

4 CPUs

32GB RAM

Test

4 CPUs

32GB RAM

Development

4 CPUs

32GB RAM

This west coast company reallocatedtheir Sun-6900 box (on Oracle) and have

3 Appservers on the production box..

More memory allows them to take better

advantage of the parallel load of the BW

system as well as to cache many of the

frequently run queries (BEx Broadcaster)

The hardware also allows them to have a

system where performance between the

boxes are comparable.

Example

Key numbers: 3.1 Terabytes of data; 2810

named users and about 620 active users

R

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Resources

A Dedicated team with a technical team lead (100%), a Basis resource

(100%) and a technical reviewer (100% is required).

In addition, a dedicated go-to resource for technical issues isrecommended. This should be an individual that have solidknowledge about the upgrade and have done his before. SAP

resources should be considered, due to their contact network withinthe SAP organization.

Regression testing is required on behalf or the user community. Thisshould be coordinated with the Power Users or existing developers.

Team Lead

Basis

resource

Technical reviewer Upgrade Support

External

Regression Testers

Team Lead

Basis Technical reviewer

BW Developer

Upgrade Support

External

Regression Testers

S l Ti li l t l d f l BW i l t ti

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Sample Timeline - complete landscape for large BW implementation

W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 W9 W10 W11 W12

Project startup and Team training

Preparation for upgrade of Sandbox systemand roll out of SAPGui

Upgrade Sandbox system

Test functionality and decide what toimplement in upgrade (What has the best ROI)

Plan upgrade of production landscape

And roll out of new functionality to users

Upgrade development system

Test and validate upgrade

Implement new functionality

Upgrade Test system

(Copy of production if possible)

Test and validate Test system and user training& roll out of SAPGui

Upgrade Production system

Test and validate Production system

The more content you have

the longer the upgrade

(the more you have to

regression test)

The duration is driven by:

1. The number of BW systems in your landscape.

2. The new functionality your are rolling out

3. The support technology needed

Mi i Ti li d B i t

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Minimum Timeline and Basic events:

Do initial upgrade guide and note research [1-2 days]

Upgrade BW sandbox and do cursory issues check [1-4 days]

Upgrade a copy of BW production have key development leads regression test all

live content (both systems must be connected to other landscape environments

testing extractors too!) [2-5 days (size/copy/hw depending)]

Once the initial regression test is complete, create any correctional transports. [3-5days?]

Post-fix, have full team in for Upgrade buy-in testing that all works properly [2-3

workdays]

KEY: now freeze development and release transports, upgrade development and atest system, incorporating the fix transports generated from the upgrade regression

test. This should be a clean 2-4 day process.

Plan for regression test glitches and production cut-over.

M i t L d

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Move into Landscape

At this point you have a temporary BW Dev to test patch, and

perhaps static training, production and production supportsystems.

Ideally, youd migrate the upgrade to these as soon as possible,but this is a stable point. You will have to decide, based on

content, whether copying a test box to training makes sense (canpreserve user master)

For production and production support, youve already done a dryrun just do production and copy back to production support

unless the size makes this impractical [~ >500GB]

Hardware requirements changed if you also did

unicode conversion (recommended)

Don't

Forget

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Step 1: Hardware install and BWS Copy

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Step -1: Hardware install and BWS Copy

BWX BWD BWQ BWP

BWS BWX BWX BWX

1

3

2 4

January Feb March April

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Hardware install

Copy BWD to new BWS

Upgrade DB2 to latest version

Post processing of box

Rename/restore old BWS box

Download latest patches for upgrade

In this real example, we are also

installing new Hardware. This givesus lot of flexibility

First, we copy the old development

system to the new Sandbox (new HW)

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Step 1: BWS Unicode conversion Java upgrade & test

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Step -1: BWS Unicode conversion, Java upgrade & test

BWX BWD BWQ BWP

BWS BWX BWX BWX

1 2


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Start upgrade BWS

Start shadow instance

SPDD start

ICNV startStart syst. downtime upgrade activity

Complete BWS upgrade

Post processing

Basis and functional testing

Unicode conversion

Java upgrade

3

4

At this stage you should document and

test all work that occurs. Some time

has to be set aside for notes researchand unforeseen issues.

We want to creating a repeatable

process, so no ad-hoc activities are

allowed.

Step 2: System copies

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Step -2: System copies

BWX BWX BWX BWP

BWS BWD BWQ BWX

1

3

2 4


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Copy BWD

Development freeze

Rename BWD

Copy BWQ

Rename BWQ

Copy PDW (no rename yet). It is

still the production system..

You now freeze the development and

can take copies of the BWD and BWQ

system and prepare for upgrades.

The old BWP is still running as the

productive system..

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Step 3: BWD upgrade

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Step -3: BWD upgrade

BWX BWX BWX BWP

BWS BWD BWQ BWX

1

3

2 4


21 28 4 11 18 25 3 10 17 24 31 7 14

Complete Prepare on BWD

Apply fixes

Start upgrade BWD


SPDD start

ICNV start

Start syst. downtime upgrade activity

Complete BWD upgrade

Post processing


Unicode conversion

Java upgrade

We now repeat the process. Remember,

you have already upgraded BWD once

(in step-1) and should know the needfor any post processing.

Don't ignore the need for technical and

functional testing.

Step 4: The real test BWQ upgrade

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Step -4: The real test -- BWQ upgrade

BWX BWX BWX BWP

BWS BWD BWQ BWX

1

3

2 4


21 28 4 11 18 25 3 10 17 24 31 7 14

Complete Prepare on BWQ

Apply fixes

Start upgrade BWQ


SPDD start

ICNV start


Complete BWQ upgrade

Post processing


Unicode conversion

Java upgrade

Functional test and go/no-go decision

Notice, we refreshed the new BWQ

from BWP, so this is really a BWP

upgrade

St 5 Th Bi O C t O k d

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Step -5: The Big One: Cut-Over weekend.

BWX BWX BWX BWX

BWS BWD BWQ BWP

1

3

2 4


21 28 4 11 18 25 3 10 17 24 31 7 14 18 19 20 21

Java install

Remove data in new system

Rename BWP

Complete Prepare on BWP

Apply fixes

Start upgrade BWP


SPDD start

ICNV start


Complete BWP upgrade

Post processing

Basis testing

Functional test

Unicode conversion (TBD)

Contingencies should be made. I.e. notice

that is any showstoppers occur on 20th, the

old BWP can be renamed back, or if thetime becomes too short the Unicode can be

done the next weekend.

Lessons learned

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Lessons learned

Mfg. Retail Government Finance Energy

Old version 3.1C 3.5.3 3.5.3 3.1C 3.5.3

Duration 10 weeks 9 weeks 10 weeks 12 weeks 14 weeks

Scope 3 Tb/900 users 6 Tb/300 users 1 Tb/80 users 7 Tb/1,200 users 4 Tb/500 users

Number of environments 9 5 4 4 4

Number of core team

members 4 3 4 5 3

Hardware switch No No Yes Yes No

Testing 2 weeks 2 weeks 3 weeks 4 weeks 2 weeksUnicode No Yes Yes Yes No

Hardware Sun IBM Sun Sun IBM

Lessons Learned

Have the right

people in place.

Wait until they

are available

and have a core

business team

for short bursts

of testing

Unicode took a

bit longer than

expected. Wait

with rollout of

new

functionality

until you have

a stable

environment

If possible,

reload the data

during Unicode

conversion

(faster).

Hardware

switch removed

a lot of risk and

made the

upgrade faster.

Could have done

this faster, if

business people

had been

scheduled for

testing earlier.

Otherwise

smooth process.

Did not have the

right technical

people involved.

This added 6

weeks to an

otherwise

straight-forward

upgrade.

What Well Cover

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What We ll Cover

Why upgradeEnd of support

New support strategy & NetWeaver





The business case


Examples

Wrap up


7 K P i t t T k H

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7 Key Points to Take Home

Is it cheaper to upgrade to new content or risk reinventing the wheel?

A BW architecture is part of a larger decision support landscape

An upgrade strategy should contain all NetWeaver components

You upgrade strategy must include both release and content upgrades

Your upgrade time is largely a function of scope, your regression test

strategy and the amount of content in your BW

The BI 7.x upgrade is an extensive one and you should treat it as so.

Cross reference new features & functionality with your organizations

pain pointsand ensure the upgrade costs do not exceed the business

benefits

Wh t i t?

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What is next?

do not exceed the business benefits

Resources

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COMERIT (presentations, articles, accellerators)

www.comerit.net

The document NW BI 7.x Upgrade master Guide is available at

https://websmp108.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700005412772005E.pdf

Business content and extractors SAP BI 7.0.3 available at

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/44/16e6f7a6f30d19e10000000a114a6b/

RN_703_en_final.pdf

Component upgrade guide SAP Netweaver BI 7.x ABAP available at

http://help.sap.com

Resources

Your Turn!
http://www.sap.com/index.epx

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Your Turn!

How to contact me:

Dr. Bjarne Berg

[email protected]

Th B i C f di S id

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The Business Case for upgrading Some ideasStrategic:

Timing of releases - BI 7.x is a major BI release - better to absorb it and new technologies now

Technology like Java and EP usage type is mature and stable enough for productive use

All included technologies are the future of SAP software development - unicode, java and portal especially - itis better for the technical team to become experienced in installing and maintaining them in a non critical

application like reporting and data analysis before applying this know-how to mission critical applications like

mySAP ERP 2005/ECC 6.0 (R3)

While BI 7.x has a lot of new technology, much of which has been tested for over ten months, there is no

requirement to convert to newer features on upgrade - BW 3.x content can be migrated scenario by scenario.

Integrated Planning features are the best planning approach

Technical:

Better administration capability thru Netweaver Administrator - and BW load and query statistics have been

redesigned and a cockpit provided which includes better process chain support

Unicode support

The GUI component, used by developers even if end users are 100% web based, is in maintenance and SAP

supported past 2010. In addition, the Visual composer component can be used for development, which mayshorten KPI reporting request turnaround time.

BI capability is integrated into the new ECC - but will likely not be used as an integrated reporting component.

Utilizing the BI 7.x BI usage type allows early adoption and testing of enterprise services

BI Accelerator capable - indexes InfoCube data - acts as super fast aggregate to overcome bad modeling or

design or simply huge data volumes. (hardware based, provided separately)

New additional support for near-line storage of infrequently used data

Th B i C f di S id

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The Business Case for upgrading Some ideas

Functional:

Security changes - new model is provider oriented, not the old R3 transactional model - enables

better architecture of security solution for reporting, dashboarding and planning - new securityimplementation has enhanced monitoring, auditing and test tools.

Better linked extract performance - helps with larger volume extracts, consolidated data transfer

Better now before a larger volume of data, larger user community and more content requires

testing or is affected by downtime

Allows greater automation and self service capability, freeing business experts for more

strategic and less daily operational workload. (source SAP What's new in BI 7.x)

Migration towards single user interface (via EP usage type) in place, tested and scalable before

ERP upgrade

One BI Toolset - Report Design takes place in the new BEx Report Designer

Specific new components which may drive a component based business justification: (source: SAPNew Developments in SAP BI)


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Modeling new features:

remodeling toolbox - change InfoCubes without rebuilding them

enhanced datastore objects (ODS) - write optimized objects enhanced InfoSets (can integrate InfoCubes into join with time dependent Master data)

new, unified datasource definitions

enhanced remote capability - remote master data access without replication

better EDW transformation - graphic UI, simplification of transfer rules, new end and expert

routines

unit conversion - new capabilities during data load and reporting

streamlined Data Flow control definition and process chain build - includes better real-time

data acquisition

new Data Transfer Process (DTP) for better transparency, filtering and parallism in staging, and

delta management

Real time EDW push from XML to PSA vs delta queue

Completely redesigned Administration Cockpit and Statistics for BI runtime, Data load and newData load status stats.

redesigned BW "Warehousing Workbench"

Improved Business Content Analysis - overview, search and analysis capability

New process chain functionality and process types

Better Data quality thru improved error handling

Re-partitioning capability - removes drop and rebuild restriction


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Reporting new features: Redesigned Business Explorer Suite of tools... New Query Designer tool is VB, .NET based unicode compliant, and has enhanced UI features. New Query Designer supports multi-selected objects, and has options for BI Integrates planning New report designer tool for better formatted reporting BEx integrated Web Application Design - more model driven with new layout chart and map wizards New Web App designer -new layout elements, web items, chart types (GANTT) and is planning aware Improved intuitive ad-hoc design on the web with better drag and drop PDF based BEx web printing Excel based data entry capability New Information Broadcasting features (query views, formatted reports, data bursting, exception

broadcast, alerts etc) Visual Composer BI kit for modeling BI applications - can integrate heterogeneous DataSources

(OLAP/relational) Planning Improvements - speed of analysis, access to real-time data for forecasting, planning wizard

using roadmap pattern Planning capability built into Query designer - ie queries based on aggregation level can write back to

infoprovider Planning layouts can be done in Web Application designer - create-configure layout, bind data and

configure interaction

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