Just to add my $0.02, we're close to moving to 8.1 in production, although we're past the technical team testing phase and about to go to UAT. We did already get to 8.1 ARS in Production with ITSM 7.6.4 with no new problems so I can vouch for that as well.
There seem to be a few really good "new" features that come with 8.1 (as opposed to 7.6.4, we bypassed 8.0), such as the new SRM, restoring the Categorization tabs, the rules based email engine, the automatic screen refreshes on Change Management when you go to a new phase, etc. Several of the same old bugs are still around though. Global Search is still 50% useless, the Mid Tier crashes Tomcat as frequently as it had before, and you still have to have your users clear their browser cache as often as Windows ME users have to reboot their PCs. Despite not fixing many defects, some of the new features make it worth upgrading just to have in place since the users are already used to Remedy's quirks. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kathy Morris Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 10:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Upgrade from 7.6.4 to 8.1 ** Hi, We are planning the upgrade from 7.6.4 to 8.1. Wondering what others have experienced with a 7.6.4 to 8x upgrade. Our company feels this upgrade is going to be "very difficult." We have never archived any data. There were over 100 hotfixes applied to 7.6.4. Besides the release notes, is there any documentation to help with this painful process :) Are there any gotchas? Recommendations? _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ Private and confidential as detailed here: http://www.energytransfer.com/mail_disclaimer.aspx . If you cannot access the link, please e-mail sender. _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
