SAP BO to QuickSight converter

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Hi All,

  1. Just wanted to know, is there any converter where we can convert SAP BO reports to QuickSight.
  2. If not what are the steps to consider while migrating SAP BO reports to QuickSight

Need suggestions,
Thanks

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Hi @Kumar - Welcome to AWS QuickSight community and thanks for posting the question. I believe there is NO direct converter to migrate SAP BO to QuickSight. You have to follow some of the migration principles.

  1. Identify the data sets, see any calculated or derived fields are used in SAP BO reports or not.
  2. Prepare plan for report migration, start with easy one so that it can be created in QuickSight easily and the functionality of QuickSight can be easily understandable.

QuickSight is a good visualization tool and it should have most of the feature like SAP BO, you have to start creating it from scartch and replicate it.

Tagging some of the QuickSight experts @Naveed @Max @David_Wong @Koushik_Muthanna @eperts @SD_QS for their advise on this as well.

Regards - Sanjeeb

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Hi @Kumar - Automatic converters are difficult to find and rarely work to good results across the board. It also depends on the BI product and how they export their assets. For example, Tableau exports everything in xml. That allowed some of our Partners create automations converting the xml to QuickSight. If SAP BO exports in a similar fashion it may be possible to automate this.

Typically customers that go through the same process as you will engage a AWS Partner (Slalom, Deloitte etc) to handle the migration and convert the dashboards from SAP BO to QuickSight. Typically the process is manual because in many cases the functionality and features are not like for like. Doing an assessment of the current and future states will be required.

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Hi @Sanjeeb2022,
Thanks for the inputs.

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Thank you @Kumar . If the suggestion is useful, please mark it as solution so that it can help other community members.

Have a great week ahead.

Regards - Sanjeeb

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Hi @Sanjeeb2022,
Are there any list of things or pre-existing functionalities where we can expedite those to make the process fast.

Thanks

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Hi @Kumar - To be honest “It depends” however you can have a look on the demo central platform of AWS QuickSight community where you can get some sample dashboard and explore more how it has been created. It is a good start to understand the QuickSight capabilities.

Regards - Sanjeeb

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I have some hands-on experience on creating QuickSight reports and dashboards.
I need inputs more interms of migrating from BO to QuickSight where are there any steps to expedite the process fast.

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Hi @Kumar - I doubt whether it is available in community.

Let’s hear from other experts.

Hi @Koushik_Muthanna @Max @eperts - Do we have any guidelines or documentation available / Best practices available to migrate BO report to QuickSight? Please advise.

Regards - Sanjeeb

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@Kumar - I have worked with many different BI tools (Qlik, Tableau, PowerBI, QuickSight). Typically a migration from one to the other requires manual effort. The BI developer who has built or maintains the current dashboards in BO will have to re-build them in QuickSight.

With a limited number of dashboards the process is relatively straightforward. But if you have tens or hundreds that’s where the need for Partner comes in to help you scale. Hope this helps.

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