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Major Stages of Oracle BI Applications Upgrade

Figure 1 shows the upgrade flow for the major stages of the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications upgrade process. Table 1 provides the documentation you should refer to for each stage of the upgrade. For the detailed steps and tasks associated with each stage, see Table 2.

Figure 1. Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Upgrade Flow

Sequence of Upgrade Stages

You must complete stages one through five sequentially, in the following order: 1) upgrade the Siebel Business Analytics platform to the Oracle BI Infrastructure; 2) upgrade the Siebel Business Analytics Applications to the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications; 3) upgrade the metadata in the DAC and Informatica repositories; 4) upgrade the data warehouse schema; 5)upgrade the Siebel transactional database schema.

You can perform stages six through eight simultaneously; that is, you can migrate data into the upgraded data warehouse (stage six), upgrade the Siebel Analytics repository (stage seven), and upgrade the Web catalog (stage eight) at the same time. However, you cannot test the results of your Web catalog upgrade, which you do in the procedure Testing the Results of the Presentation Catalog Upgrade, until you have finished migrating your data.

CAUTION:  It is highly recommended that you consider obtaining support from Professional Services to assist with the end-to-end upgrade process.

NOTE:  Upgrading Oracle's Siebel Customer Relationship Management applications is out of the scope of this document. Upgrading your current version of Siebel CRM applications is optional.