In this presentation, a SAP Support Consultant from ArchitectSAP Solutions  will find about important concepts of Business Object 4.0 For More Information, Please visit:- http://www.architectsap.com/blog/sap-bw-2/sap-business-object-why-should-i-migrate-from-deski-to-webi/

1. WHY SHOULD I MIGRATE FROM DESKI TO
WEBI ?

2. *SAP Business Objects (BO) Business Intelligence offers
diverse tools for reporting and analysis purpose.
*These tools give full suite of Business Intelligence
reporting solutions.
*These reporting tools are purposely for different levels
of user according to their business role and interactivity
with the business data.
*Desktop Intelligence & Web Intelligence are two such
BO tools which has significant role in Business
Intelligence.

3. *DeskI is an analysis and reporting tool to work with
offline reporting and focused around client-server
construction modeling.
*The downside with DeskI was that it must be deployed
to your desktop and was completely offline reporting
tool.
*It has been replaced by Webintelligence and
Webintelligence Rich Client.

4. *Web Intelligence is a powerful analysis tool for creating
ad-hoc reporting.
*It allows business user to analyze data from data
warehouse.
*The reports created in WebI (.WID format) are accessed
through BO portal InfoView.
*There are different tools that provide relative
functionality as WebI according to scenario need

5. *SAP Business Objects 4.0 is first significant arrival of Business
Objects suite by SAP which comes up with numerous
improvements. This release incorporates change in naming
traditions with dawn of new reporting devices and
eliminating some of old ones also.
*SAP BO 4.0 release onwards DeskI won't be part of reporting
device's group which serves as the real purpose behind
clients to consider substitute tool for further report
improvements.
*No stress! Web Intelligence (Rich Client) is prepared and
competent to embrace all sort of DeskI's reporting
obligations giving same working environment and upgraded
peculiarities to end client.

6. There are some questions the existing users of DeskI might
ask, like:-
*What will happen to my already In-use DeskI reports?
*Do customers need to develop those reports again in new
tools?
*Will all the efforts invested in DeskI reports be lost?
*Is there any way to reuse existing reports in new tools to save
development efforts?
The answer to all of these queries is migration.
SAP BASIS Support Service provider like ArchitectSAP Solutions
helps their client in migrating from DeskI to WebI.

7. *No Support for Desktop Intelligence in SAP BO 4.0
*Webi (rich customer) and Interactive Analysis have upgraded
capabilities.
*Web Services combination in Interactive investigation,
Online, Offline and Disconnected association mode
alternatives.
*Both of these tools is completely proficient to serve your
reporting needs. No compelling reason to try for both.

8. * Report conversion tool is used to migrate DeskI reports to
Interactive Analysis reports.
* The Report Conversion Tool converts SAP Business Objects
Desktop Intelligence XI R2 and XI 3.0 reports to Interactive
Analysis XI 4.0 organization and distributes the changed over
reports to the XI 4.0 CMS.
* It recovers reports from the source "Focal Management
Server" (CMS) into the Public, Favorites or Inbox organizers.
After transformation, you can distribute to the same folder
as the original Desktop Intelligence report or to an alternate
folder.
For More Information on Topic, Please visit:-
http://www.architectsap.com/blog/sap-bw-2/sap-business-object-
why-should-i-migrate-from-deski-to-webi/