Considerations for Oracle BI Applications Customers

2 Summary of the Oracle Business Intelligence Upgrade Process 2-1 2 Summary of the Oracle Business Intelligence Upgrade Process This chapter provides a high-level summary of the steps that are required to upgrade the following Oracle Business Intelligence components from Oracle Business Intelligence 10g to Oracle Business Intelligence 11g: ■ Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Oracle BI EE ■ Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Oracle BI Publisher ■ Oracle Real-Time Decisions Oracle RTD This chapter includes the following topics: ■ Section 2.1, Upgrade Overview ■ Section 2.2, Flow Chart of the Oracle Business Intelligence Upgrade Process ■ Section 2.3, Steps in the Oracle BI EE Upgrade Process ■ Section 2.4, Steps in the Oracle BI Publisher Upgrade Process ■ Section 2.5, Steps in the Oracle Real-Time Decisions Upgrade Process

2.1 Upgrade Overview

Upgrading Oracle Business Intelligence from 10g to 11g is an out-of-place process performed by Upgrade Assistant. You run a clean installation of Oracle BI 11g and import data from the 10g system. Run Upgrade Assistant once to upgrade the repository and catalog, or Publisher Repository, and once to upgrade the Scheduler schema. Upgrade Assistant configures the 11g installation with the imported 10g repository and catalog, so if you updated system A, then system B using the same Upgrade Assistant, you would have a running 11g system B, with all the users and groups from both system A and B. Upgrade Assistant does not upgrade customizations that were made to the Oracle BI 10g system. Any configurations made in 10g must be manually copied over to the 11g system after the upgrade process is complete. For other post-upgrade tasks and considerations, see Chapter 8, Oracle Business Intelligence Post-Upgrade Tasks and Considerations. You cannot upgrade Oracle Real-Time Decisions using Upgrade Assistant. See the high-level procedures for upgrading Real-Time Decisions in Figure 2–2 . For a road map of the procedure, see Table 2–3 . For the Oracle Real-Time Decisions upgrade procedure, see Chapter 7, Upgrading Oracle Real-Time Decisions. 2-2 Upgrade Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence

2.2 Flow Chart of the Oracle Business Intelligence Upgrade Process

Figure 2–1 provides a flow chart of the Oracle Business Intelligence upgrade process. Review this chart to become familiar with the steps that you must follow, based on the existing environment. Figure 2–2 provides a flow chart of the Oracle Real-Time Decisions upgrade process. Review this chart to become familiar with the steps that you must follow, based on the existing environment. Figure 2–1 Flow Chart of the Oracle Business Intelligence Upgrade Process Figure 2–2 Flow Chart of the Oracle Real-Time Decisions Upgrade Process