Automate reporting with VB or VBA...

I figure I will start a new thread on this ...
What i'm trying to do is grab data from the SAP BEx Analyzer and import the data into another database .. in an automated fashion .. i know VB, VBA, excel, sql, and all that stuff already .. i'm having trouble using the BEx analyzer's programming object model to:
1) connect to our BW server automatically
2) "load" an existing 'workbook', via CODE, that has sales data by region
3) Identify some variables to limit the query (like a list of cat #'s etc)
4) run the query
5) hopefully extract the data into a vba recordset, or even a CSV would do .. in a tabular format
6) populate this data into either SQL Server or just a small Access database table for now. Once i have a csv or recordset, i can do this easily.
I've seen many posts by Peter Knoer and Peter I greatly appreciate your help thus far .. are there also other forum members who have done someting like the above ? I see little value in simply dumping data into excel and creating more Excel-based data mazes .. i want to get this data into a central relational data system so i can integrate it with information from other systems ...
My business explorer plug-in is version 3.0B Patch 4 (is this old ??)
Has anyone done something like this before ??

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Hi Eugene!
Thanks for your trouble and sorry for the late answer, but unfortunately I had to do a lot.
I think, to describe my idea is not so easy with my English. But maybe you can understand it.
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