Best Practices for creating reports/Dashboards from BW systems

HI Gurus,
Best Practices of creating BO Dashboards / Xcelsisus from BW systems
Prasad

You can use the BICS connector that leverages BW queries directly. It is listed in the Connection Manager as "SAP NetWeaver BW Connection". You will need both the ABAP and Java stack and SSO configured between the two. You will also need to have SAP GUI and BEx installed on the machine you are doing development on. Note that dashboards using this connection can only be hosted in NW Portal for the time being until the next release of BI 4.x platform.
Here are some links on getting started with the BICS connector:
[Building Fast and Efficient Dashboards with BW and Xcelsius|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/d0ab8cce-1851-2d10-d5be-b5147a651c58]
[Requirements for BICS|http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/prerequisitestoXcelsiusandSAPNetWeaverBW+Connection]

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