Xcelsius and Crystal Report for SAP BW

we're going to use Crystal Report 2008 and Xcelsius Enterprise 2008 to integrate with SAP BW 7 (with SAP EHP1 + SP5 applied).
I understand that Crystal Report 2008 and Xcelsius Enterprise 2008 is "Client" application, which will be installed on each local machine (Developer machine, not end-user machine). I also understand latest xcelsius Enterprise 2008 + SP2, xcelsius can connect directly to BW.
Question is do I still need to install SAP Integration Kit on these local machine (Developer machine) so that we can access SAP BW data from Crystal Report as well as xcelsius Enterprise 2008?
Please advise, thanks.

Hi Ingo,
Yes, I understand what you 're saying:
"for distributing report objects with a larger audience you need a BusinessObjects server environment - either BusinessObjects Edge or BusinessObjects Enterprise."
What I dont understand is WHY we need to have BusinessObject Enterprise to distribute the crystal report so that my user can access the crystal report?
The reason why I am confused because earlier on, you mentioned we (BW users) can call the URL and access crystal report is saved in the BW Role.
Since my BW users can access crystal report directly from BW, WHY do we still need BusinessObject Enterprise?
Please advise, thank you.

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