The decision to upgrade the Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure should be based on specific business requirements to take advantage of new infrastructure functionality. To help you in planning for the upgrade, this chapter provides information about the upgrade process and the tasks to perform before upgrading the Siebel Business Analytics Platform to the Oracle BI Infrastructure. It contains the following topics:

• New Names for Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure Components
• Key Changes to the Oracle BI Infrastructure
• Overview of the Upgrade Steps for the Different Versions of Siebel Analytics
• Upgrading Third-Party or Other Deployment Components
• Which Siebel Business Analytics Platform Components to Upgrade
• Backing Up Siebel Business Analytics Files and Folders