What is the impact of SAP R/3 upgrades and patches on the NF QuickStart and Oracle BI?
Answer given by Patrick Teunissen on 3 January 2007 (was project responsible for SAP R/3 upgrades with HunterDouglas in 1996 and 1998 and coordinator of a series of upgarde with EPSON between 1998 and 2000). Currently director of NewFrontiers. Users of any software but certainly SAP R/3 will confirm that upgrades and sometimes the implementation of patches will trigger a significant amount of work. Examples of that work in SAP R/3 are: “additional configuration”, programme and database conversations”” and most importantly “testing”. Often additional functionality (change work) is added during the upgrade “project” and sometimes hardware is replaced. So although SAP has made R/3 upgrades much easier since the first time I run one back in 1996 (from R/3 release 2.3 to release 3.1) they are often costly. I believe that the introduction of SAP BW (or as it is called nowadays Neatweaver BI) has from an IT perspective only increased the complexity of upgrades. Because whatever you want to lo
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