Benefits Open Enrollment using BSP

Hi All,
I am new to the BSP forum. I am a HCM functional person. I wanted to know your view in this matter. We are live in SAP ECC 6.0 with all modules but dont have ESS/MSS right now. We have been doing Open Enrollment via sharepoint forms till now. After employee completes the form the data is udpated in Sharepoint library and then we download these data to excel. We finally upload these data via LSMW/custom program to update Benefits Infotypes. This is a tedious process and takes a lot of time especially the download values from Sharepoint has to to be mapped to SAP fields etc. ESS/MSS may happen next year. We are weighing the pros and cons of creating the forms in BSP instead of Sharepoint. With BSP it might be easy to update the Benefits infotypes.
Is it possible to create forms in BSP and store it in an internal table and then upload these data via a custom program / standard function modules to udpate IT167, IT168 etc.
Please share your thoughts.
Thanks
Sanghamitra

if those form fields needs F4, etc better to go with ABAP webdynpro.
Is it possible to create forms in BSP and store it in an internal table and then upload these data via a custom program / standard function modules to udpate IT167, IT168 etc.
Yes very much possible and much easier to develop and maintain.
Regards
Raja

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Kumarpal,
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This is pretty old but still for the people who will be visiting to this thread just like I did.
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