BusinessObjects Environment Assessment using Query builder

BusinessObjects environment assessment is one of the critical steps whenever you go for migration or an upgrade. Identifying the existing objects in current deployment and cleaning up the unnecessary and unused objects will help you to design and size your system properly with optimal performance. In this document I want to show simple steps to estimate BI contents using Query builder.

Have a look here BusinessObjects Query builder - Basics for Query builder basics. You should fire the below environment assessment queries in Querybuilder.

1. Estimating User Community

User count

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'USER'

Named user count

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'USER' AND SI_NAMEDUSER=1

Concurrent user count

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'USER' AND SI_NAMEDUSER=0

User group count

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'USERGROUP'

2. Estimating BI Content

Universe count

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_APPOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'UNIVERSE'

Connection count

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'CONNECTION'

Count of crystal reports

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_INFOOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'CRYSTALREPORT'

Count of Full client reports

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_INFOOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'FULLCLIENT'

Count of WebI reports & Instances

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_INFOOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'WEBI'

Count of WebI reports (Only report templates)

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_INFOOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'WEBI' AND SI_INSTANCE=0

Count of WebI report instances

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_INFOOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'WEBI' AND SI_INSTANCE=1

Count of Folders

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_INFOOBJECTS, CI_APPOBJECTS, CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'FOLDER'

* Please note I have included all three virtual tables for the folder count as it may exist in all the categories

Count of Categories

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_INFOOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'CATEGORY'

Count of Program Objects

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_INFOOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'PROGRAM'

Count of Shortcuts

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_INFOOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'SHORTCUT'

Count of Agonistic documents

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_INFOOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND IN ('EXCEL','PDF','WORD','RTF','TXT','POWERPOINT')

Count of Calenders

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'CALENDAR'

Count of Events

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'EVENT'

Count of Hyperlinks

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_INFOOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'HYPERLINK'

3. Estimating Servers/Server groups and metrics

Server count

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'SERVER'

Server group count

SELECT COUNT (SI_ID) FROM CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'SERVERGROUP'

Server metrics

SELECT * FROM CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = 'SERVER'

At the end of the assessment you should be able to provide the below matrix

Parameters of Assessment	value
Users
Named users
Concurrent users
User groups
Universes
Connections
Crystal reports
Full client reports
WebI report
WebI report templates
WebI report instances
Folders
Program Objects
Categories
Shortcuts
Calenders
Events
Agonistic documents
Servers
Server groups
Hyperlinks