SAP BW 7.3 upgrade in less than 3 hours

This is the result of a Twitter search query on a successful upgrade to SAP BW 7.3 at Bluefin. See below for the related log of tweets. Great feedback for the team including our colleagues from support!

25 Dec	vsikka	Vishal Sikka	Thx!!! HANA shud make it really fly! @applebyj: @vsikka We went live smoothly with #netweaver73 BW this week too…
24 Dec	applebyj	John Appleby	@ @vsikka We went live smoothly with #netweaver73 BW this week too. Great product by the way. Huge improvement in lots of small ways 🙂
23 Dec	applebyj	John Appleby	Kudos to Roland Szajko from SAP support who got our #netweaver73 bug fixed in 49 minutes from open to close including writing code.
23 Dec	applebyj	John Appleby	Impressive response from SAP Support on #netweaver73 Post-GoLive problem. 10 minutes to phone call, developer working on fix #BluefinRunsSAP
23 Dec	applebyj	John Appleby	@bluefinsolution #netweaver73 upgrade mostly done now – Java still to be connected. One new issue raised to SAP as V High. #BluefinRunsSAP
23 Dec	tristancolgate	tristancolgate	RT @applebyj: @bluefinsolution Production #netweaver73 upgrade completed – downtime < 3 hours. #BluefinRunsSAP > nice work john you da best
23 Dec	BluefinSolution	Bluefin Solutions	RT @applebyj: @bluefinsolution Production #netweaver73 upgrade completed – downtime < 3 hours. #BluefinRunsSAP
23 Dec	applebyj	John Appleby	@bluefinsolution Production #netweaver73 upgrade completed – downtime < 3 hours. #BluefinRunsSAP
22 Dec	applebyj	John Appleby	Alright then. @bluefinsolution #netweaver73 upgrade has gone into downtime phase on time. We’ll see it on the other side #BluefinRunsSAP
22 Dec	BluefinSolution	Bluefin Solutions	RT @applebyj: OK we have a Go on the @bluefinsolution #netweaver73 BW upgrade tonight. #BluefinRunsSAP
22 Dec	sapcio	Oliver Bussmann	RT @applebyj: OK we have a Go on the @bluefinsolution #netweaver73 BW upgrade tonight. #BluefinRunsSAP cc @sapcio @vsikka
22 Dec	applebyj	John Appleby	OK we have a Go on the @bluefinsolution #netweaver73 BW upgrade tonight. #BluefinRunsSAP cc @sapcio @vsikka

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Witalij Rudnicki

December 30, 2010 at 1:27 pm

...that it lacks depth. I will wait for a blog from John to learn more about their upgrade: what was their business case (except "many nice little improvements" ;-), landscape and size, if they had authorization already migrated etc. Congratulations nevertheless and waiting for more stories like this (are all of them going to be cc:ed to Vishal and Oliver? Why not to co-CEOs? ;-)!

-Vitaliy

Former Member

December 31, 2010 at 5:23 am

Vitaliy,
I agree that Twitter is not "deep" in a technical sense. But why so scornful? While that log shows a single opinion/example it's at least more unbiased than, for example, many of those rejoicing HANA presentations, blogs, videos, interviews, ... which are mainly marketing and leave me/us speculating about the true nature/capabilities of the beast.
Happy new year!
Alistair

Bala Prabahar

January 5, 2011 at 5:29 am

"... at least more unbiased ..." - how do we know if it was more unbiased??? We need more info(Vitaliy has already listed) to determine if it was biased or not.
On HANA: I completely agree with you. Marketing to a certain level is ok. In my opinion, HANA's marketing efforts exceeds anything I've seen so far. Compare HANA's marketing efforts to Exadata: (IDC Report on Exadata)
"...What became clear from the start, and was reinforced by numerous customer panels
as well as one-on-one interviews with users, was that Oracle's claims regarding
Exadata's speed, efficiency, and scalability were not hype; if anything, they proved
modest when compared with actual experience...."

Former Member

February 13, 2011 at 5:51 am

It is more unbiased because it is - presumably - unsolicited ... in contrast to the purposely launched marketing blogs. Can't prove it though.

Chi Iong Ma

July 2, 2011 at 5:17 pm

Hi, it seems like quite a few people have already upgraded to BW 7.3. We are also evaluating an upgrade from BI 7.0(no EHP) to BW 7.3. However, we get internal errors on the MOPZ when trying to download the software. I have even upgraded our BI server to EHP1 and still the MOPZ bombs. Our solman is on SPS25 EHP1 and I have installed the latest MOPZ notes. I have opened a ticket with OSS and it has been escalated to development(the SAP analyst believes the issue is caused by yet another bug in MOPZ)

I am curious how you download the BW 7.3. Which solman and BI version do you have to download the software successfully?

Thanks,
Jonathan.

Former Member

July 3, 2011 at 12:49 am

Good day Thomas and everyone who read Thomas blogs.
Thank you Thomas for blogs, very interesting.

For information:

We found another problem when trying uprade from BW 7.01 to BW 7.3.

If you alredy install BI_CONT 7.06 and want to upgrade for 7.3, be ready that solman ask you about mandatory package BI_CONT 7.36, but you can't find them on marketplace. Confused situation - isn't it.

We create message about that.
Sap suppurt experts tells that the package SAPK-73601INBICONT is not available yet.
Release 736 of BI_CONT will be available as of 8 November 2011.

We ask - is there any workaround, now we wainting answers. I hope sap experts find the solution.

Erich Schneider

October 17, 2011 at 6:18 am

How many hours would it take from 3.x to 7.3?

SAP BW 7.3 upgrade in less than 3 hours

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