Background about the Business Objects Universe Conversion project

As part of SAP's evolution of the Business Objects platform, they will no longer support the legacy universe format in the next major update. SAP introduced a new universe format in 2015, and AITS has been creating all new universes in that format since then. However, many of our universes were created prior to 2015 and remain in the legacy format. These older universes need to be converted to the new format at this time.

Once the legacy universes are converted to the new format, all documents that query those universes will need to be repointed from the legacy universe to the new universe.

All documents stored correctly in the EDDIE repository will be automatically repointed to the new universe. If you as a user and your unit store all needed documents within the EDDIE repository, there is nothing you or your unit will need to do for this part of this project, other than making sure the documents are stored correctly.

However, if you or your unit use the Web Intelligence Rich Client application on your desktop and store reports outside the EDDIE repository (on a user’s desktop, on a unit’s network drive, in a Box folder, etc.), these documents will not be automatically repointed. They must be manually repointed by the user within 90 days of the conversion.

Universes will be converted in groups based on subject area. AITS will be sending communications to users with access to the affected universes throughout this project. You will know when universes are to be converted, and when the 90-day time frame ends.

Standard Reports

Any Standard Reports that are saved locally (on a user’s desktop, on a unit’s network drive, in a Box folder, etc.) will stop working once the universe(s) is converted to the new format.

To run the new version of the Standard Report, you should log into EDDIE, click the Folders tile, and navigate to Public Folders and then to the folder where the Standard Report is saved.