Upgrade of SAP PPM version 5.0 from current 4.0

[Former Member]

HI Everyone, A warm reagrds! W e are planning to upgrade our current SAP Product and Portfolio Management 4.0 to 5.0.While doing the Upgrade analysis I have come across below these questions..Has anyone earlier in this forum have come across

1.What are the side effects of this upgrade on existing system?

2. We have 21 client environment on top of the 3 standard clients provided by SAP. What can be the best approach for upgrading the systems? Some of these clients are used by project teams for prototype development , how would the upgrade affect their working (they are not working on this package)?

3. Our team is working on this package in one of the client and have created scenarios in the system. What will be the effect of this upgrade ? (this question can be seen as an extension to question 1)

4. How much effort would be required to carry out this upgrade and what will be the down time for the system?

I have check the service market place and help.sap but at present not getting much info..

Thanks for your time to read..

[Former Member]

We have a ECC6.0 and Solman landscape.Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi,

2. We have 21 client environment on top of the 3 standard clients provided by SAP. What can be the best approach for upgrading the systems? Some of these clients are used by project teams for prototype development , how would the upgrade affect their working (they are not working on this package)?

All the clients will be effected and the prototyping done may not be applicable any longer. When you do a upgrade it is client independent.

3. Our team is working on this package in one of the client and have created scenarios in the system. What will be the effect of this upgrade ? (this question can be seen as an extension to question 1)

The scenarios may or may not be affected depending on the objects involved. Intense testing will be required.

4. How much effort would be required to carry out this upgrade and what will be the down time for the system?

This differs from customer to customer depending on the functionalities that are already in place.

Hope this helps,

regards

N K