SA660eR2 - Migrating Application Foundation 6x to BusinessObjects XI R2
 Audience
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The target audience for this course is System architects/Administrators who are
responsible for planning, assessing and/or implementing a strategy for their organization
to migrate from their Application Foundation 6.x deployment to the BusinessObjects XI
Release 2 platform.
 Course Announcements
 Prerequisites
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Prerequisite Education (To be successful, you should have attended the following
offerings or have the equivalent knowledge:)
Migrating from BusinessObjects 5.x & 6.x to BusinessObjects XI R2 (Instructor-led) OR
Migrating from BusinessObjects 5.x & 6.x to BusinessObjects XI R2 (eLearning) *
Prerequisite Knowledge/Experience (While not required for this course, experience with
these products or technologies will be helpful:)
The users, content, architecture, and security in their organization's source deployment
Windows NT/2000 and NT administration
NT enterprise security concepts (global/local groups, and directory structure)
Recommended
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None
 Goals
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This two-hour eLearning course is designed to provide you with an understanding of how
to migrate from BusinessObjects™ Application Foundation 6.x to BusinessObjects XI
Release 2.
By the end of the course, you will understand how to properly plan and migrate your
Application Foundation 6.x environment to BusinessObjects XI Release 2.
You will learn how to examine the source environment, migrate using the Import Wizard
migration tool, then validate and test the results.
The business benefit of this course is that you will be able to plan for and implement a
successful migration from your source Application Foundation 6.x system to the
BusinessObjects XI Release 2 platform.
 Course Based on Software Release
 Content
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Migrating Overview
o Using the Import Wizard to migrate Application Foundation objects to
Performance Management
o The role of the Central Management Server (CMS)
o Identify which objects migrate
o Incremental migration and when it is supported
How to migrate using the Import Wizard
o Prepare the target environment
o Examine the source environment
o Perform a migration
o Validate the migrated content
o Test some of the platform reports
 Notes
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Additional Education
o Not applicable for this offering.
Level, Delivery, and Duration
o This core-level eLearning offering is a two-hour course.
Applicable Certification
o Not applicable for this offering.