Systems and Methods for Decommissioning Business Intelligence Artifacts

A method for managing storage of business intelligence artifacts in a business intelligence

• environment, comprising the steps of:
• communicably coupling a supplemental system to the business intelligence environment, a version control repository, and an archived storage, the supplemental system performing the steps of:
• determining whether a business intelligence artifact in the business intelligence environment is a target artifact to be decommissioned;
• if the business intelligence artifact is determined to be a target artifact, then automatically sending a control signal to the business intelligence environment to initiate a decommissioning process on the target artifact to improve the business intelligence environment by reducing its maintenance footprint;
• if the target artifact is reduced through the decommissioning process, then initiating a restoration process based on input to the supplemental system by a user to restore the reduced target artifact to a live, active state in the business intelligence environment;
• if the business intelligence artifact is determined not to be a target artifact, then maintaining the business intelligence artifact in a live, active state in the business intelligence environment;
• wherein the decommissioning process comprises:
• after a first pre-determined period of time, removing the target artifact from the business intelligence environment;
• replacing the target artifact with a stand-in object in the business intelligence environment while maintaining the target artifact in the supplemental system;
• and
• wherein the restoration process comprises:
• taking an action to restore the target artifact if the user attempts to use, execute, or activate the stand-in object, wherein the restorative action taken depends on the duration of time the stand-in object has been in the business intelligence environment.