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Most organizations assume they are doing the right thing for backups. In this session, Enterprise Architect, Minith Patel, will explain the best practices to backup and restore BusinessObjects, how to check if things are going right. Learn and understand more about the objects CUID, FRS etc, which are important to understand as part of restoring BusinessObjects. He will share a few personal experiences where he had to help organizations come back from impossible scenarios.

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Upgrading BusinessObjects can be challenging especially if you have a comprehensive deployment with many reports, universes and inter application dependencies. This presentation will focus on the important topics you need to consider and include useful tips, tools and checklists that can help to achieve a successful upgrade.

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Join BI Expert Minith Patel, with InfoSol Inc, as he takes us through a session that will shed light on enhancements made in newer versions of BusinessObjects. With new service packs rolling out frequently, it is hard to keep abreast with what’s new and what is enhanced. Minith will cover topics such as Promotion Manager Wizard – a new desktop based tool, Monitoring in CMC and how to use it, BI Administrators Cockpit and what’s new with it. He will deliver this session with a few practical examples and best practices.

BusinessObjects has added a relatively new tool to the BI Admin Console for administrators. The Automation Framework comes with some standard tasks like repointing Webi documents’ data sources but can also be customized to perform other tasks in bulk. For this presentation we will walk through the setup of the Automation Framework and creating and scheduling a group of tasks to run. This demo will also lead us into a discussion of two recent projects where the Automation Framework was used and some of its current strengths and weaknesses.

Join us in a very informative webinar of a recent upgrade done by a large company. BI Expert, Minith Patel, will share how this organization upgraded from XIR2 to BI 4.2 SP5. Learn about the process that was undertaken, how a plan was formulated, challenges encountered, and the steps taken to achieve a successful upgrade of BusinessObjects. This session is intended to equip our audience important lessons learned and solutions applied for any upgrades and migrations.

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