SAP Business Objects Migration
QuantumIT was recently engaged to project manage and lead the architecture, design and implementation a Business Objects upgrade for a large financial institution. The migration project involved:
- ugrading SAP Business Objects environments from XIR2 (sp2) to XIR3.1 (sp3)
- Move from physical to virtual servers (Windows 2003)
- New parallel build to allow cutover / rollback options
- Full content migration
Technical Environment Impact
The project involved migrating both mass user and self service reporting.
- Mass User Reporting impacts:
25,000 end users
700 Reports (only demand only - no schedules/instances)
All report refresh requests via in-house developed portal using OpenDoc & ReportViewer
100 developers
Dev, Test and Production installations
12 physical servers
LDAP authentication
- Technical Environment – Self Service Reporting impacts:
2,000 end users
5,000 reports (100,000+ instances)
All report refresh requests via Infoview
100 developers
Dev, Test and Production installations
8 physical servers
LDAP Enterprise
Project Approach
The project involved following the client's project methodology which required engagement with the following groups:
- Change Management
- Project Control Board
- Project Management Office
- Risk Management
- Testing services
- Stakeholders/Sponsors/End user groups
Other technical engagement was required with the following groups :
- Wintel
- Identity Management
- Firewalls
- Software packaging
- Storage