On of our customers has the requirement to migrate the actual OnPrem versionof SAP BO 4.2 SP5 into a Cloud infrastructure (Government BIT Cloud). Furthermore one of the requirements is implementing a new SAP BO 4.2 SP 8 and using Oracle Exdata 19c as repositories for SAP BO CMS and auditing. In the following will be outlined how to install the Oracle 19c (https://www.oracle.com/ch-de/database/technologies/ ) 64 Bit client:
Now its possible to implement SAP Business Objects 4.2 SP8. The implementation process has been described here: https://blog.kguhr.com/sap-bo-4-2-sp8-2-implementation/