On this page, you can find various information about upgrade, migration and implementation of SAPNetWeaver BW 7.3 and higher, including the enablement for SAP HANA. For information about lower releases, see  SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse? 7.0 and lower - exclusively.

With the new possibilities in SAP NetWeaver BW 7.30, In-Memory technologies SAP BWA and SAP HANA, as well as further updates to the SAP BusinessObjects platform and SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, this must-read presentation illustrates synergies in combination with the SAP Business Intelligence solution portfolio. Sybase core technologies, such as Replication, Databases and Mobility, can be used very efficiently together with the existing SAP BusinessObjects product portfolio.

The Software Update Manager 1.0 (SUM) replaces all previous upgrade tools.

With the ASU (application specific upgrade) toolbox, customers get one single truth for all pre/post upgrade steps regarding the technical upgrade to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0x  and all following releases. More detailed information about the ASU toolbox can be found in note 1000009. This tool has been available since 2008 (see the TechEd Presentation and the new Upgrade to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.30 Presentation) has been enhanced and now allows application specific and technical resources to work together for a successful upgrade to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.30

With SAP NetWeaver 7.30 JAVA, the Functional Unit Configuration UI (former CTC BI-JAVA Template) is available.

Together with the BW Housekeeping Task List,there are also additional Task Lists available to simplify preparation of the application-specific part.
Implement the following SAP Note to enable usage of task list SAP_BW_BEFORE_UPGRADE via transaction STC01

(contains manual report ZNOTE_1734333_PRE_70x/ZNOTE_1734333_PRE_70x, and NO automated steps applied with SNOTE)

Immediately after the upgrade to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3x Note 1720495 (Invalid deimplementation of obsolete notes by SNOTE tool) should be applied. Apply Note 1685578 first

With the release of SAP NetWeaver BW 7.30 new and innovative capabilities have been added to SAP's EDW premium solution. SAP NetWeaver BW 7.30 as the backbone for a successful usage of SAP BusinessObjects Platform and SAP Business Warehouse Accelerator - BWA is the heart of the SAP Business Intelligence Architecture. The updated presentation SAP NetWeaver 7.0x - Upgrade to SAP NetWeaver 7.30 ABAP BW (full version with complete technical details) provided you with must-know delta information to quickly and effective upgrade to SAP NetWeaver 7.30 BW including existing information from the resources of this page and the updates for SAP NetWeaver 7.30 EhP1 (7.31).

See also the changes to the existing BEx Versions 3.5 and 7.x after Upgrade to NetWeaver BW 7.30 or 7.31
Be sure to read these Notes prior to the technical Upgrade in order to prevent any unwanted incompatibilities or unforeseen changes.

The Software Provisioning Manager 1.0 (SWPM) can be used to install all SAP NetWeaver 7.30 based instances onwards.

See the details of the Software Logistics Toolset 1.0 here.

See SAP First Guidance - SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA Installation/Configuration. This document also includes the complete SAP NetWeaver BW basis customizing settings, together with an example configuration of the systemparameter. The guidance raises no claim to completeness.

See all SAP First Guidance Documents here - BW on SAP HANA First Guidance

With the release of SAP NetWeaver 7.30 all previous J2EE stacks are now synchronized in one platform. BI JAVA 7.30 is still available with the usage type BI-JAVA to connect to an existing SAP NetWeaver BW 7.30 stack for the classical usage of BEx Web or the native dashboards (former Xcelsius). The presentation SAP NetWeaver 7.30 – BI JAVA Implementation shows the new SAP NetWeaver 7.30 installation and configuration options with the functional unit configuration UI (former CTC BI-Java Template) All informations are also valid vor SAP NetWeaver 7.30 EhP1 (7.31)

The separation of the doublestack (ABAP and JAVA in one instance) into two separate stacks is a SAP recommendation. An option available since SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 is the deinstallation of the Java Add-In with SAPInst. This presentation provides details and guidance about the process to prepare for upgrade to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.30, concentrating on the ABAP stack.

As a successor for most scenarios, we offer the combined export of the Java system, deinstallation of the Java Add-In and installation of a new Java system using the dual-stack split tool available as part of the SL toolset 1.0 (SP5). For more information, see "Dual-Stack Split".
If you are running SAP NetWeaver 7.30 JAVA Add-In you can use the software provisioning manager 1.0 (SWPM) as part of the SL toolset for the deinstallation process, as this always contains the latest software components (Note 1680045). Note that the dual split process is not supported for SAP NetWeaver 7.30 systems (Note 1655335)

With SAP NetWeaver 7.3x JAVA the Functional Unit Configuration UI (former CTC BI-JAVA Template) is available

In Advance check the WebAS/SSO Settings after the Upgrade to NetWeaver 7.3x. The settings are almost identical to NetWeaver BW 7.0x

To reduce downtime for your production landscape, one of the recommended migration paths of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) to SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA comprises a system copy of your SAP NetWeaver BW system. The system copy procedure of SAP NetWeaver BW systems and landscapes is complex for a number of reasons however. A large number of configuration settings are involved for example (such as connections and delta queue handling for data loading), as well as system copy scenarios of SAP NetWeaver BW (each with different landscape aspects) that have to be handled as part of every system copy, regardless of whether the system copy is part of the migration to SAP HANA or you want to perform regular system copies of your SAP NetWeaver BW landscape.

To achieve this, SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management offers preconfigured "task lists" used by the ABAP task manager for lifecycle management automation.

You can also enable SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA to “go productive” with parallel operation of your existing production system, both connected to the same back-end systems. This is achieved with a special and unique automated solution for delta queue cloning and synchronization on production systems.

SAP Note 886102 (SMP login required) thus becomes obsolete. Using the post-copy automation for SAP NetWeaver BW (BW PCA) in the migration process of SAP NetWeaver BW to SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA, this process can be shortened by weeks and becomes easier, faster and more reliable.

BW on HANA - Upgrade and Migration -  Blog on saphana.com 

Since Release 7.30 SP05, it is now possible to perform a heterogenous system copy (incuding unicode migration) to migrate existing systems based on SAP NetWeaver BW 7.30 SP05 and higher to SAP NetWeaver BW on HANA (HDB) based systems.

With this major step forward, a new procedure called "Post Copy Automation (PCA)" now supports customers with what can often be complex post-steps before and after the homogenous/heterogenous BW system copy. This presentation is the delta information to the existing document "SAP NetWeaver 7.0 - BW Systemcopy ABAP" shown above. The technical Improvements with the leaner data model provides advantages with BW on HANA too.

To ease this generic step of BW system copy, a new procedure called "BW Post Copy automation (PCA)" is available, which supports customer now in the complex pre and post steps during the homogeneous/heterogeneousBW system copy (information from the SAP ALM group) procedure.

Please note that these procedure can be used independently from your BW and Database Version starting fromNetWeaver 7.0x

We distinguish between two use cases explained in the FaQ for BW-PCA:

- initial copy based on existing on an original BW source system

  Task Lists - SAP_BW_COPY_INITIAL_PREPARE andSAP_BW_BASIS_COPY_INITIAL_CONFIG

- refresh of an existing system based on an original BW source system

  Task Lists - SAP_BASIS_COPY_REFRESH_EXPORT, SAP_BASIS_COPY_REFRESH_IMPORT and

  SAP_BW_BASIS_COPY_REFRESH_CONFIG

The following Notes are the pre-requisites for the use cases:

- Note 1683554 - SAPI tasks for System Copy Automation (included in NetWeaver 7.01 SP12 and higher)

- Note 1844297 - Corrections on SAPI-Tasks for System Copy Automation (included in NetWeaver 7.01 SP14 and higher)

- Note 1614266 - System Copy: Post Copy Automation (PCA) / LVM (included in NetWeaver 7.01 SP12 and higher)

- Note 1707321 - BW System Copy: Note analyzer Post Copy Automation (BW-PCA) (included in NetWeaver 7.01 SP12 and higher)

- Note 1780190 - SAPI Corrections for System Copy Automation- Refresh Usecase (included in NetWeaver 7.01 SP14 and higher)

Updating to the minimum level of the mentioned Support Stacks is recommended to minimize the manual effort.

For both cases the BW-PCA Tasklists support the Customer together with the software provisioning manager 1.0 (SWPM) in these software lifecycle management tasks. BW-PCA is embedded in the SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management

In this session, you will learn about various housekeeping activities that should be part of the operational concept of your Enterprise Data Warehouse. These housekeeping activities will support you in removing unwanted and unneeded data as well as unused metadata. Scheduling these activities regularly in the system will ensure optimum utilization of system resources while at the same time increasing the overall system performance.

(contains manual steps ZNOTE_1829728_PRE_70x/ZNOTE_1829728_PRE_73x, and automated steps applied with SNOTE)

The newly released Housekeeping Task List (Pre/Post Steps) allows you to automate mandatory tasks prior to upgrade/migration with DMO to ensure the quality of the migration process and the health of your BW System.

Apply the following Notes in advance and run the tasks in advance to ensure smooth implementation of the BW Housekeeping Task List.

(contains manual steps ZNOTE_1767420, and automated steps applied with SNOTE)

To solve the problem with the endless loop on the last task, apply the following Note:

See how the german customer Kärcher upgraded their BW System Landscape (Three System plus Sandbox) within 8 weeks including BI-IP and BIA. It is still a good reference from the project perspective

See Dr. Berg's Upgade to 7.30 Experience. This is a overview Presentation based on 2011 findings.

See the Doc - SAP BW 7.3 Promising Features This is a very nice overview based on the 2012 findings.

Recent Blog - SAP BW 7.3 Upgrade Issues and Solutions is based on 2013 findings, esspecially application side.

DSAG Forum: "Upgrade NetWeaver BW 7.3x" => (DSAG-ID requested) share you experience with other DSAG members.