BO Edge SAP integration for mid size companies

Hi
Refer http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216403200.
It says here Edge integrates with SAP. Does anyone know if you still required BI NW for this? I've only found that you still need SAP BI NW for this, otherwise you'll only be able to use Crystal reports directly off SAP ERP. Is my logic right, or has SAP come up with Edge integration directly to ERP with Edge serving as it's own data warehouse.

Hi,
not sure where you received the information that Web Intelligence will talk to the ERP system by Enhancement Package 04 but I think you are mixing up things here. Part of Enhancement Package 05 for the BusinessSuite (Q4 2009) is an option to expose ERP data to the BI system without any data modelling which then can be used via a BW query.
Ingo

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Figure 15.3. Crystal Reports after the SAP integration kit is loaded. Note the SAP menu and BW toolbar.
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Figure 15.5. The information required to connect to a BW cube or query from OLAP Intelligence.
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Figure 15.6. The information required to connect to a BW cube or query from Web Intelligence.
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