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Best Practices for Preparing to Upgrade

This section provides best practice steps you need to perform before you begin the upgrade process.

• Review this guide, Siebel Business Analytics Applications Upgrade Guide, in its entirety.
• Back up and rename your current repository and Siebel Business Analytics Web Catalog files as listed below.

  File Type	File Name	File Location
  DAC metadata repository	*.xml	SiebelAnalytics\DAC\export
  Analytics repository	SiebelAnalytics.rpd	SiebelAnalytics\Repository
  Informatica repository	Siebel_DW_rep.rep	SiebelAnalytics\dwrep\Informatica\Repository
  Web catalog	SiebelAnalytics.webcat	SiebelAnalyticsData\Web\Catalog

• Gather information that describes the current implementation, including the following:
  • Version of the Siebel transactional database to which you upgraded.
  • Version of the Siebel Business Analytics platform from which you are upgrading.

    To determine the Analytics platform version from which you are upgrading, launch the Siebel Business Analytics Server Administration Tool, and click Help > Administration Tool in the toolbar. A message box provides the platform version.

  • Version of Siebel Business Analytics Applications from which you are upgrading.

    To determine the version of Analytics Applications from which you are upgrading, launch the Data Warehouse Administration Console (DAC), and click Help > Metadata Version. A message box provides the metadata version, which will be either 7.7 or 7.7.1.

    • If your metadata version is 7.7, you are running Analytics 7.7.
    • If your metadata version is 7.7 and your transactional database version is 6.3.x, you are running the Siebel Business Analytics Bridge - 6.3.
    • If your metadata version is 7.7 and your transactional database version is 7.5.x, you are running the Siebel Business Analytics Bridge - 7.5.
    • If your metadata version is 7.7.1, you are running Siebel Business Analytics 7.7.1.x.

      NOTE:  If the DAC is not a component of your Analytics installation, you are running Analytics 7.5.x.