1. UL Meeting July 2009 1 BusinessObjects Upgrade XI 3.1 Cristine Little Business Intelligence July 2009 1

2. UL Meeting July 2009 2 BI BusObj XI 3.1 Upgrade  Benefits Web Intelligence benefits to new IT (and you, indirectly) –Release 3.1 provides better change control and rollback for migrations/updates –Release 3.1 makes security tighter and less cumbersome.

3. UL Meeting July 2009 3 BI BusObj XI 3.1 Upgrade  Benefits Web Intelligence (Cont’d) –Still two levels of access: InfoView and WebI –InfoView access in XI 3.1 offers enhanced formatting capabilities: »Edit reports including formatting text, columns, and report layout »CANNOT edit the underlying queries

4. UL Meeting July 2009 4 BI BusObj XI 3.1 Upgrade  Aug 17 Timeline and Detail Web Intelligence –Upgrading from XI R2 to XI R3.1 –No report conversions –User testing phase completed, issues resolved »Some users of complex custom reports were invited to validate the reports in 3.1 yield same results as in R2 »Traditional user testing in June/July timeframe for 3+ weeks »Production Readiness Testing on go-live weekend 8/16

5. UL Meeting July 2009 5 BI BusObj XI 3.1 Upgrade  Aug 17 Timeline and Detail Web Intelligence (Cont’d) –After Close of Business on Wednesday, 8/12 – Any changes to your Favorites or Inbox will be lost. –After Close of Business on Wednesday, 8/12 – Access requests will continue to be accepted, but will be placed in queue until after go-live (8/17) –Go/Delay decision was 7/20, and communication to all BusinessObjects users went out 7/22 that we are going live 8/17. –Stability issues that caused the delay in June have been resolved.

6. UL Meeting July 2009 6 BI BusObj XI 3.1 Upgrade  Aug 17 Timeline and Detail Web Intelligence (Cont’d) –Contingency plan for problems encountered in first 2 weeks –XI R2 version running concurrently »For user(s) unable to run a report in XI 3.1 »If we cannot resolve issue quickly, they can use it while resolution continues in XI 3.1

7. UL Meeting July 2009 7 BI BusObj XI 3.1 Upgrade  Aug 17 Timeline and Detail Web Intelligence (Cont’d) Action Item –Please ask your BusinessObjects users to go through their Favorites and Inbox documents by August 10 and delete anything that they no longer need.

8. UL Meeting July 2009 8 BI BusObj XI 3.1 Upgrade  Questions?