BEx Browser content in KM

We have used the BEx Browser extensively over the past 10 years to keep track of all our queries, links and workbooks.
Now we are taking the first steps towards the use of KM. And we face the problem of accessing all these queries through a KM file.
We can broadcast a query or publish it to the portal. Easy enough. But we have several thousand and accessing them one by one is.............time consuming.
So the question is, if it is possible to create a KM portofolio that points to the BI server where the existing BEx Broser structure are, presenting them to the endusers.
Frank Carlsen
Business Intelligence section
Danish defence IT Agency

I'm not a BI Consultant, so I don't know the Bex Browser but what I found at SDN is that is is possible to call it via ITS (WebGui)... as the Portal supports Transaction Iviews you could try that...
Please note that the notes reffering to the use of Bex Browser in the web are very very old:
- BEx browser in the Web (SAP Note Number: 318352 )
- Use of the BEx browser in the Web with a logon (SAP Note Number: 535561)
But I would strongly reccomend you to look at the possibilities that SAP intended to use in combination with Portal and KM otherwise you will get in trouble if SAP stops the support on the Bex Browser...
For more info and a detailed comparison matrix what is possible look here:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/9d/24ff4009b8f223e10000000a155106/frameset.htm
Cheers,
Benjamin

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