1. Make hardware and the version upgrade.
2. Install the application on the new server.
3. Use the migration wizard, this would migrate all the objects, but not the data.
4. Import and export is the way to get the data after migration.
5. Open ports on the servers, make sure no port conflict.
6. Make sure the same language is selected
7. Create the ODBC drivers if SQL interface is used.
8. Put the customized Java functions in the UDF folder
9. Copy Substitution variables to the new server
10. Verify security on the new server, sometimes the migration wizard doe not do it properly
11. Check Essbase config file and copy over needed parameters
12. Do lots of testing of calc scripts, report scripts, and MDX scripts
