Automated SAP Business Objects to Jaspersoft Migration for a Global Gift Card & Stored Value Services Provider

As the company added more clients across different industries (travel, apparel, dining, e-commerce), the variety and volume of data BO had to handle grew beyond what the platform was originally built for.

BO's architecture made it hard to build custom, client-specific reports. Each client's reporting needs were different, and BO couldn't adapt quickly enough to meet them.

BO is licensed per user, so as usage grew, the licensing bill kept climbing. This was a direct financial driver for the move to open-source Jaspersoft.

Over the years, the BO environment had accumulated duplicate or unused universes, objects, and report types. These needed to be cleaned up and consolidated before migration; otherwise, the team would migrate clutter along with the useful reports.

Some reports relied on dynamic queries, calculations, and multi-tab Excel outputs. These are technically harder to migrate than a plain static report, since the underlying logic, not just the layout, has to be recreated correctly in Jaspersoft.

With hundreds of reports in play, every migrated report had to be checked against its original BO version, including granular details such as Excel cell formatting, to ensure nothing broke during the switch.