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This section contains a summary of new and changed features for WebFOCUS Version 8. It will help you plan your upgrade and application migration strategies and develop a training curriculum for your users.
WebFOCUS Version 8 has some exciting new features which are described in the WebFOCUS New Features manual. For purposes of this document, the features that will be focused on from the perspective of the upgrade and migration will be:
WebFOCUS Version 8 has undergone significant architectural and behavioral changes in features. Some WebFOCUS Version 7 features have been removed, replaced, or implemented differently in WebFOCUS Version 8, so it is important to understand the differences in features between WebFOCUS Version 7 and WebFOCUS Version 8. A direct mapping for some features does not exist between WebFOCUS Version 7 and WebFOCUS Version 8. For example, in WebFOCUS Version 7, in Business Intelligence Dashboard, you could have created a role tree that shows the authorized reports for a user. In WebFOCUS Version 8, the role tree option has been removed and similar capabilities are provided by the security authorization model.
An up to-date list of hardware and software supported by WebFOCUS Version 8 is available on the Technical Support web site. Review this list to determine if you need to make any infrastructure changes to support a WebFOCUS Version 8 deployment.
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