How to present SAP R/3 data in SQL Server 2005 Reporting service?

Our company is using SharePoint Portal Server 2003 as our intranet. We are also using SAP R/3 4.6C to run their business. There are huge amount of important data in SAP database. There ere are business needs to present SAP data on SharePoint pages which are easier and more friendly to be accessed by users.
The top concern for IT people to meet this challenge is DO NOT CHANGE/UPGRADE THE EXISTING SAP SYSTEM which is so far run smoothly and stably. We cannot accept any risk to make big changes on SAP. and now we want to adopt the Microsoft SQLServer 2005 BI Solution. the most challenge is the ETL part.how to extract the data from SAP R/3 Data base to the SQL Server Data warehouse?
any suggestion or comments is welcome!

Hi
1.if you use web templates you can post the URL in share
point very easily.
any web developer will do that for you in 2 min.
2.this is a more chalanging issue.
the main issue is exacly as you defined it - the ETL.
the main advantage of BW over most BI tools is its
connectivity to SAP R3 and CRM.
But still there are many way's to extract data out
of any SAP sys and in R3 the data model makes it quite
easy.
In CRM its much more complicated because of the much
more complex Data Model.
Here are a few way's to extract data from SAP:
- olap bapi
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bw33/helpdata/en/64/9b8f3c855f0454e10000000a11405a/frameset.htm
- odbo - vb/.net/c sharp
'connecting to sap bw using vb and ado md'
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/ee19e9c7-0301-0010-8f84-97e3f6d7b5a6
'connecting to sap bw with excel and odbo'
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/a06a51f3-0201-0010-8591-b742cfafd267
'odbo'
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/7f88b390-0201-0010-ae94-fdfd42b13407
'sap .net connector' (seems old version)
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/fb4dc990-0201-0010-429a-bf43852a6895
.net connector
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/5a04426d-0601-0010-5e99-aeea1cd4aa81
'Access SAP BW ODS BAPI Using C-Sharp and SAP .NET Connector 2.0' doc can be download here
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/12f6d390-0201-0010-e18d-cdb4554a9e75
Reg's
Edan

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