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Training Course Summary:

To provide IT professionals with an awareness of product enhancements and migration best practices following upgrade to BusinessObjects Enterprise 6.

What skills will the delegate gain?
This course will enable delegates to:

Install a default configuration of Enterprise 6 server products.
Upgrade deployments in a controlled environment.
Upgrade BusinessObjects desktop products.
Migrate BusinesObjects 5i document and customised applications to version 6.

Pre-Requisites:

A server product course for BusinessObjects version 5, or equivalent experience. Windows 2000 Server and Network Environment Administration skills.

Who Should Attend:

IT professionals who are responsible for migrating existing deployments of WebIntelligence and BusinessObjects to Enterprise 6.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Learn about the new features, functions and architecture.

New Features and Architecture for WebIntelligence
Learn how enterprise 6 provides extensive reporting functionality in WebIntelliegence.
New Query Panels.
Workflows from the end-user perspective.
Application services (CORBA infrastructure)
Architecture improvements.
Interoperability.

New Features for Full-client, Designer and Audit/Auditor
Understand how to use an XML document as a data provider.
How to save reports, charts and chart data sources as Excel documents.
Use the Find feature in the query panel and in a report.
Calculator engine enhancements.
Using the Find and replace command in Designer.
New Supervisor commands.
New native support for multi-cluster architecture.

Supported Hardware, Software and Stacks
Understand minimal hardware requirements for acceptable performance.
Required software.
Which platform stacks are supported.

Default Installation and Configuration
Install the necessary products that support Enterprise 6 (a web server and application server)
Install Enterprise 6 and use the configuration tool to configure the server products.

Migration Techniques
Learn the different migration methods and associated benefits and risks.
Understand the factors that determine which migration method is best for your organisation.

Backing Up Data Using Test Systems
Create test systems under both migration methods.
How to preserve current settings and copy default settings for new users from 5.x to 6.x.
Copying WebIntelligence module parameters from 2.x to 6.x.

Upgrading BusinessObjects Products to Version 6
Upgrade each of the end-user, administrative full-client and server products.
Redeploy customised WebIntelliegence applications.

Migrating Documents
Understand the document migration process.