Connecting SAP R/3 to Xcelsius dashboard

Hi all,
I've a requirement where I have some reports in SAP R/3 and based on those reports I need to build a single Xcelsius dashboard. What I know is I have to use Crystal Reports which fetches the data from R/3 tables and in turn use these Crystal reports as data source to my Xcelsius Dashboard and I want this dashboard to be a live one.
But how should I connect to the Crystal reports data directly from Xcelsius ??
Is it through Live Office, if yes can someone describe the process to do it as I'm unaware of it ??
Thanks
John

Hi Anil,
               The reports in SAP are standard reports where each report is having 4000-5000 lines of code, and to replicate
               the same logic in Crystal Reports to build reports which in turn can be used a data soure to Xcelsius dashboard is a
               huge task and time consuming as far as I know from outside of it.......
               Is there any other approach to achieve this ?
Thanks
John

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