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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, Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Upgrade Guide, in its entirety.
• Rename and copy into a different location your current repositories, Web catalog, and DAC installation folder from your existing environment. The file names and locations listed below represent the standard names and locations of files that shipped with previous versions of Siebel Business Analytics Applications.

  When you backup the DAC repository, you export the DAC metadata, in XML format (using the DAC's Export tool), into a different database, which can be used later as a reference. For instructions, see the Oracle Business Intelligence Data Warehouse Administration Console Guide.

  Type	Name	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	<file_name>.webcat	SiebelAnalyticsData\Web\catalog
  DAC installation folder	DAC	SiebelAnalytics\DAC

• 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 Analytics 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 Siebel Business 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, 7.7.1, or 7.8.

    • If your metadata version is 7.7, you are running Siebel Analytics 7.7.
    • If your metadata version is 7.7 and your transactional database version is 6.3.x, you are running the Siebel 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 Analytics Bridge - 7.5.
    • If your metadata version is 7.7.1, you are running Siebel Analytics Bridge 7.7.1.x.
    • If your metadata version is 7.8, you are running Siebel Business Analytics Applications version 7.8.x.

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