Andrew, thanks for the very thorough assistance and help here,
so yes, I'd like to perform the Export of the object so that I can still use the HP SIM to run the buildin report. So I guess, there is no need to perform the migration from version to version like you said.
Let us know here what the proper steps to export each of the object that you mean so that it can be imported safely to the new running instance of HP SIM v7.4 on SQL 2012.