BO performance issues on OLAP Universes

Hi All
I am working on BO XI 3.0 and installed the SAP Integration Kit for Windows 3.0 version.
I have built OLAP Universe based on BW cubes and reporting on the Universes using Web Intelligence.
I am facing performance issue when trying to query on OLAP Unvierses and the query is taking ~10 mins to fetch the data. I have installed the FP3 for BO XI 3.0 and there is no improvement as such. Could anyone help me on this issue.
This has been a long standing issue and is causing a hindrance to our deliverables.
Regards
Chetan

Hi Ingo,
We are also currently facing similar kind of performance issues.
We have sap bw Infocube and bw query on top this we have BO Universe.
As per best practices document "the WebI query panel definition is what defines the "MicroCube" and thus the MDX query which is executed on SAP BW".
It means that the actual query performance / query execution time / memory consumption is directly related to number of objects dragged into WebI query panel not in SAP BW query.
if this is true then what is the reason not to have all infoObjects / keyfigures of InfoCube in a single sap bw query?
I found another Best practices document which says that "DO NOT build one query per infoProvider because elements can add processing time even though you are not using them into the Web Intelligence Report
In one statement it says that the WebI Query panel definition is what MDX query going to execut on SAP BW and in other statement it says that the elements in SAP BW query can add processing time even though we are not using them in Web Intelligence Report*.
Appreciate if you can clear these contradicatory statements.
Regards,
Ravi Kumar Garre
Edited by: Ravi Kumar Garre on Oct 26, 2009 4:00 AM
Edited by: Ravi Kumar Garre on Oct 26, 2009 4:06 AM

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