As the world’s largest medical device company, Medtronic plc generates most of its sales and profits from the U.S. healthcare system.
Medtronic faced a major business challenge: as support for their Business Intelligence software was coming to an end, they needed to upgrade to a newer BI environment.
CHALLENGE
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To migrate from Business Objects to the latest version
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To ensure quicker service and consistent experience
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To ensure that there would hardly be any downtime on the existing environment
Migrate Data sources: -
Seventeen (17) BW 3.5 datasources using SAP CRM as DataSource to BW 7.0 DataSource,
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Two (2) BW 3.5 datasources with SAP ERP
SOLUTION
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Configuration/Number of Business Objects servers/After Upgrade ensure everything works fine in new BI environment
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Report Issue: Reports were in an old format and needed to be upgraded along with interfaces to desperate systems. Migration of all content to a new version while the system was still up and running
THE BRIEF
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Upgrade of the system without down time
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Re-establish connectivity to interfaces and rewrite Security settings for new tools in BI4.0
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Training for users and developers
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Report conversion
BENEFITS
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Zero downtime
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Reduced monitoring and OS patch validation – Reducing the server’s count in the new version with increase in the configuration. This structure saved a lot of time for Business Objects administrators as the number of servers were reduced as compared to the older version
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The new version was faster, robust and scalable
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Updated and modernized the enterprise platform
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New Portal