Patent ID: 7899820

Claim:
A computer storage product with a computer readable medium, comprising executable instructions to: create an export file for a business intelligence object at a source system; characterize inheritance, dependency, and object hierarchy information for the business intelligence object; retrieve objects upon which the business intelligence object depends; identify a rule file associated with the business intelligence object, wherein the business intelligence object is further characterized by metadata of the rule file; combine the export file, the objects and the rule file associated with the business intelligence object into a composite export object with content utilized by a target system to reconstruct the business intelligence object in the target system; distribute the composite export object; receive the composite export object at the target system; reconstruct at the target system objects associated with the composite export object; resolve dependencies associated with reconstructed objects of the composite export object; and insert the business intelligence object into an object hierarchy within the target system that is not identical to the object hierarchy in the source system.