SAP Business Object Upgrade Admin

5 years experience - SAP Admin to perform Upgrades

Upgrade/migrate SAP BO Business Intelligences platform from 4.3 to 2025.

Upgrade/migrate SAP BO Data Services platform from 4.3 to 2025.

Strong Experience with SAP Data Services administration

Experience with : CMS - FRS
- Web Intelligence
- Crystal Reports
- Information Design Tool (IDT) - Central Management Console (CMC) - Promotion Management

• Windows and/or Linux administration
• SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, or other supported CMS databases
• LDAP/Active Directory integration

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Engagement Duration: 6 - 9 months.

We are seeking an experienced SAP Business Objects (BOBJ) consultant to lead and substantially perform the upgrade of the SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform and SAP Data Services environment from version 4.3 to SAP Business Objects BI 2025. The consultant will assess the current environment, develop the upgrade strategy, execute the migration, validate all reporting and ETL processes, and ensure a successful production deployment with minimal business disruption.

The consultant will work closely with infrastructure, database, SAP Basis, security, and business reporting teams throughout the project lifecycle.

• Assess the current Business Objects environment.
• Inventory reports, universes, publications, schedules, users, security, and Data Services jobs.
• Identify deprecated or unsupported features in BI 2025.
• Develop an upgrade roadmap, project plan, rollback strategy, and risk assessment.

• Perform low-impact, low-risk cleanup of existing Production environment such as removing inactive users, Universes that are non-functioning (e.g. target database is not available), reports that depend on non-functioning universes, etc.
• Implement a BO 4.3 staging environments for and migrate from current 4.3 production environment.
• Upgrade UNV to UNX, repoint reports, and test.
• Install and configure SAP Business Objects BI 2025 on new Window Server 2025 VMs.
• Work with MS SQL DBA to prepare SQL 2022 database server.
• Upgrade Central Management Server (CMS) repositories and File Repository Servers (FRS).
• Upgrade or migrate SAP Data Services repositories and Job Servers.
• Configure clustering, Adaptive Processing Servers, Web Intelligence Processing Servers, and monitoring.
• Configure Tomcat, web applications, SSL certificates, and authentication.

• Validate migration of:
• Crystal Reports
• Universes (UNX/IDT), first migrate required UNV to UNX.
• Publications
• Connections
• Security groups
• Scheduled jobs
• Resolve compatibility issues with legacy reports and universes.
• Ensure repository consistency after migration.

• Upgrade Designer, Job Server, Repository Manager, and Management Console.
• Validate ETL jobs, workflows, data quality transforms, and scheduling.
• Test repository migration.
• Optimize job performance where appropriate.

• Configure Active Directory, LDAP, SAML, or enterprise authentication.
• Validate user permissions and security inheritance.
• Test Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality if implemented.

• Execute:
• Functional testing
• Regression testing
• Performance testing
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Resolve defects and document fixes.

• Review Job Server configurations.
• Improve report performance.
• Optimize server memory allocation and processing.
• Knowledge transfer materials

• Develop cutover plan.
• Execute production migration.
• Provide post-go-live support.
• Monitor system health and resolve production issues.

• 5+ years of SAP Business Objects administration experience
• Multiple SAP Business Objects upgrade implementations
• Strong experience with SAP Data Services administration
• Experience with:
• CMS
• FRS
• Crystal Reports
• Information Design Tool (IDT)
• Promotion Management
• Windows and/or Linux administration
• SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, or other supported CMS databases
• LDAP/Active Directory integration

• SAP Business Objects…