SAP BOBJ Upgrade

18May 2020 by Dev Per No Comments

SAP BOBJ is a robust reporting tool with many useful functionalities for businesses today. One of our clients wanted to upgrade to the latest version of SAP BOBJ 4.2 SPS07. In this case study we discuss:

How we gathered client requirements and understood the reason behind this upgrade and the success criteria
Analyzing the system requirements needed for the successful implementation of this upgrade
Migration of data to new server and establishment of connection
Performing tasks like adding user and security roles, establishing connections, enabling backup and checking logs
Testing scenarios covered and issues faced while working on this project

Solution

We performed the below tasks to migrate from SAP BOBJ 4.0 SPS07 to BOBJ 4.2 SPS07:

Detailed understanding of the working environment used currently
Analysis of the specifications of the current system used by the client
Studying the system requirements needed for SAP BOBJ 4.2 SPS07
Migration of data from Production server to new server
Testing under different scenarios to ensure proper functionality after the upgrade

Challenges

We encountered some issues as below:

We faced some issues pertaining to system changes not working as per new standards
Creating a back-up strategy without having proper backup tools(like VMware) in place
Ensuring this end-to-end migration did not lead to data loss
Additional Security related enhancements to be added for ensuring reports are not modified by unauthorised users.

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Results

Accomplishments

Successfully migrated from SAP BOBJ 4.0 SPS07 to BOBJ 4.2 SPS07 for a seamless
user experience for our client
Project went Go-live without any downtime and our client could switch to server, whereas the old server was working fine as well
User settings were updated and worked same as before