BI design suggestion for KPI's

Hi all,
Need experts help on this.
The customer has an online questionnaire that is collected across all the op. companies . The question will be an indicator that will have a value when the user fills it . It gets stored in a database. Being a question (indicator) to the end user it will be little elobarate for e.g How many male employees working in your company (except subcontractors) or what is the production volume. The value could be 100 or 12000KG respectively. Each question will have a validity period and a indicator ID, text in the database. This needs to be extracted into BI/BO for further analsyis based on the user responses.
My assumption would be that the indicator will become a keyfigure in BI and I assume we have restriction of 60 chars length for char and keyfigure text . Is there a way to handle this in SAP BW of is there better way in designing this in BI
Version we are going to use is SAP BI 7.01 and BO DS as ETL tool.
Thanks and Regards,
Srini

Hi,
Have you thought already on the solution like this:
The assumption is that you have X KPIs in the questionaries .
In BW cube you do not create X KeyFigures but only one or two (one per quantities and one per values in currency)
In the fact table in the cube ther is an indicator what kind of KPI it is (the name of the KPI). As this indicator is build as characteristic you can maintain texts and attributes of KPIs.
The fact table looks like this:
KeyFigure1   KeyFigure2      KPI                         Customer
100                    -                 Name of the KPI 1          A
-                      1200             Name of the KPI 2        A
100                 -                   Name of the KPI 3         B
etc...........................................
Additionally you can switch on some attributes of the KPI as navigational characteristic in the cube so you can report on this.
Such design is flexible and allows to load data without any changes in the BI even if new KPIs has been created in questionaries.
In the report you can use hierarchies or report in the standard way (with columns) e.g.
HIERARCHY REport
Name of KPI 1                  100
    Name of the KPI 2         1200
or STANDARD COLUMN BASED REPORT
Customer A           KPI 1             KPI        2             KPI 3
A                           100                 1200                  -
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