Report Conversion to Business Objects

We are converting form CorVu to Business Objects as an enterprise reporting standard. We are a mining company with operations around the world and have 1000’s of reports written directly against our ERP (Mincom Ellipse). I have taken a stab at building a project plan for this conversion and it involves offloading the reporting requirements to a data warehouse environment. I am quite sure however I have many holes in this plan! Can anybody point me in the direction of some “best practice” resources ie websites, white papers ect that deal with conversions ? The more I look at this the more I want validation of the process :shock: !

Any help would be most appreciated


mmcrae (BOB member since 2002-11-04)

You’re on the best website.

There is no “conversion”. You’re looking at a complete rewrite. If Corvu has any decent metadata, then you at least have a start at building a universe.

Your existing reports should serve as the requirements for your reports. Any SQL code that can be read from the reports can be used to verify you’ve built your universe right.

So, you’ll save some time, but you will be doing the actual development from scratch.

I’d suggest hiring a good consultant to get you started.


Steve Krandel :us: (BOB member since 2002-06-25)