Analysis for Office

[Former Member]

Hi All

I have couple of question - At present we are migrating all our workbooks to Analysis for office and we are struggling to get correct answers . Has anyone did our have information regarding the mention below question.

1. Several of our BEX queries have variants. When we migrate these queries to 7.0 we lose the variants. What is the process of migration so that the variants can be migrated too?

2. Which Platform does SAP recommend as a Repository for storing migrated AO Workbooks when considering from the
following aspects :

a.    Long term strategy and product roadmap (future enhancements etc.) for AO vis-à-vis using BW Netweaver as a platform vs. using BI as a

        Platform.

b.   Would using BW Netweaver as a repository for Workbooks impact our ability in using the broadcasting functionality based on the AO Publisher

      Add-On on the BI Platform ? In other words, does AO Publisher support broadcasting of AO workbooks in the NW repository?

3. What is the planned roadmap for supporting publishing of AO Workbooks based on workbook Variants that are saved on the NW
Platform when the workbooks are saved in NW vs. BIP repository?

[former_member186526]

HI Anees

2. Its recommended to save it o BO Platform to get all kind of features with AO.

Thanks

John

[former_member186526]

hi Anees,

You can use

• RSR_MIGRATE_VARIANTS  program for migrating varaints.

Thanks.

John

[TammyPowlas]

Anees -

This document starting on page 34 gives good information on conversions http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b0776782-879b-2f10-ffa4-8d69f4b9f...

The latest help doesn't list converting/migrating variants http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/AMS14/en/14SP10_aaoffice_user_en.pdf

Item 2 - it depends on your business case - my take. If you need scheduling, that is only available on the BI platform, not NW

Item 3 is not listed on the official roadmap: https://websmp210.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000395262012D.pdf