Summary

You want to either prepare or analyze your SAP BW system to move to BW on HANA or BW/4HANA. You have now (one/several) of those challenges to:

• Identify Objects that are not needed anymore, to preserve effort and valuable memory space?
• Align with the functional business department how many of those tenths, hundredths, thousands of Queries should be taken over/are still needed?
• You need to reflect new requirements in data models. InfoProviders need to be adjusted?
• While you talk to your business department they want to take over (parts/all) of the old Queries, so they can continue work?
• You need to rebuild Data Flows and therefore need to understand complexities within flows and what actually happens?

Errors

There is not really an actual error beside the fact that many of those tasks above you have to do manually! Who likes to copy and paste information into Excel and stays focused doing that (without error) for hundreds of elements?! Of course errors can creep in here by doing mistakes in the manual steps. As this is too much of an effort you decide to go for the "supposedly" easiest way, by taking nothing/everything/doing nothing at all.

Cause

There is not really a good support for those activities above by SAP standard tools.

Solution

Use the Docu Peformer for example to:

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