Questions for understanding a BO project

Many of the developers always struggle in beginning of a migration/conversion/consolidation project where they have to understand an existing SAP Business objects reporting environment and build a new one. They start collecting the information and there are no set of rules of as-is analysis.

                I worked in several projects where I faced this difficulty and started preparing a list of question that we need to know about a reporting environment. You can use this template to start requirement gathering and eventually you will come up with bigger or smaller list. But you can use it as start point:   

Environment details	Server Name & Connection of all environments
	TNS entries for all environments
Universe Details:	Name & Number of Universe
	Name & Number of star Schemas with confirmed Dimensions
	Name & Number of tables
	Name & Number of Aliases and Contexts
	Name & Number of classes with some subclasses
	Name & Number of objects
	Name & Number of customized hierarchies
	Name & Number of conditional objects with time conditions
	Name & Number of default hierarchies
	Name & Number of aggregate navigations
	Name & Number of Linked universe
	Security structure
	Security groups
	Manage access restriction mapping (groups and security levels) if any.
	Universe connection name for each environment
Reporting details:	Name & Number of Reports
	Name and Number of Linked reports
	Reports with multiple data provider
	Number of report level objects
	Customization of the reports(Means if there any standard template for the reports)
	If there any specific alerter for all the reports
	Number of Tabbed reports
	Scheduling time and scheduling process.
	Multilingual Support information
	Prompts used in reports
CMC details:	Access levels of the system(Security analysis)
	Number of users/groups
	Any customization of Info view is there..
	Load Balancing system
	Third party software used
	Integration system with the Active Directory of company with BO
Documents needed	Data Model
	Process flows
	Functional specification
	Operation manual
	A single document which track all objects of all reports available