SAP Business Objects Consultant Job Washington area,District of Columbia USA,IT/Tech

Remote

The client is seeking an experienced SAP Business Objects consultant or contractor to upgrade and migrate its enterprise reporting environment.

SAP Business Objects and SAP Crystal Reports are used across client for enterprise reporting and are integrated with several web-based and legacy applications. The current environment runs SAP Business Objects 4.2 and SAP Crystal Reports 2016. Business Objects 4.2 is no longer supported by SAP, creating operational, security, compatibility, and maintainability risks.

This engagement requires strong SAP Business Objects platform experience, Windows Server expertise, and demonstrated success modernizing systems that contain legacy reports, applications, integrations, and dependencies.

Scope of Work

1. Current-State Assessment

Inventory the existing SAP Business Objects 4.2 and Crystal Reports 2016 environment, including servers, services, repositories, databases, applications, reports, universes, user accounts, security groups, schedules, publications, and integrations.
Review current patch levels, licensing, configuration, system architecture, and supporting infrastructure.
Identify connections to databases, file systems, email services, Active Directory, web servers, and other enterprise systems.
Identify web-based and legacy applications that embed, invoke, schedule, distribute, or otherwise depend on Business Objects or Crystal Reports.
Document unsupported components, compatibility concerns, technical debt, and migration risks.
Evaluate the proposed phased migration path and determine whether additional intermediate steps or remediation activities are required.
Establish a baseline of existing reports, schedules, security settings, integrations, and system performance.

2. Migration Planning and Architecture

Validate the technical feasibility and vendor supportability of the tentative migration path:SAP Business Objects 4.2 to SAP Business Objects 4.3.
Continued use of Crystal Reports 2016 during the initial Business Objects 4.3 phase.
Migration from Crystal Reports 2016 to Crystal Reports 2020.
Upgrade from SAP Business Objects 4.3 to SAP Business Objects 2025.
Migration of the platform and supporting components to Windows Server 2022.
Recommend adjustments to the sequence based on SAP-supported upgrade paths, compatibility requirements, system dependencies, and risk.
Confirm compatibility among the proposed Business Objects releases, Crystal Reports versions, Windows Server 2022, databases, browsers, authentication services, application servers, reporting clients, and third-party components.
Determine whether each phase should use an in-place upgrade, side-by-side migration, content migration, or another supported approach.
Develop a detailed phased migration plan that minimizes operational disruption and provides a reliable rollback strategy for each phase.
Define requirements for development, test, quality-assurance, disaster-recovery, and production environments, as applicable.
Develop a plan for migrating Business Objects repositories, universes, reports, security settings, schedules, publications, and application integrations.
Identify reports, integrations, drivers, runtime components, or custom code that must be remediated, converted, rebuilt, replaced, or retired.
Provide effort estimates, dependencies, assumptions, risks, decision points, and a proposed implementation schedule for each migration phase.

3. SAP Business Objects 4.3 Upgrade

Install and configure the approved SAP Business Objects 4.3 release and required supporting components.
Apply required service packs, patches, and security updates.
Configure the Central Management Server, File Repository Servers, processing servers, web and application components, auditing, monitoring, and other required services.
Migrate Business Objects content and configuration from the existing Business Objects 4.2 environment.
Maintain compatibility with Crystal Reports 2016 during this phase.
Configure and validate integrations with Active Directory or other approved authentication systems.
Configure and validate database connections, email delivery, scheduled reporting, file destinations, and other enterprise services.
Update affected APIs, URLs, Software Development Kit components, embedded reports, and authentication workflows.
Apply security hardening and configuration practices consistent with client requirements.

4. Crystal Reports 2020 Migration

Assess existing Crystal Reports 2016 reports, runtime components, viewers, libraries, database…