Bex on Citrix

Hello,
We have installed Business Explorer on Citrix (win 2003 server) and have published them to users. When users try to use Bex Analyzer or Query Designer through Citrix metaframe the performance is very slow. If Bex
tools are installed on local desktop the performance is fine. Also if welogon to the Citrix Server directly and use the application it responds well. Only when the application is accessed through metaframe it is slow.
Can you advise what we can do to improve Bex performance on Citrix? Thanks.

Hi David,
I found following SAP Notes:
138869 - Note itself is not dealing with BEx but with GUI in general:
Citrix XenApp 6.x is released as of patch level 5 of SAP GUI for Windows 7.20 (see below).
1322923 - Note is dealing with BEx specifically but it is just referring to upper Note
Based on those I assume SAP GUI 720 Patch level 5 is supporting Citrix XenApp 6.x .

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