BPC 10.0 Input Schedule refresh : investigating performance issues on frontend side

Hello,
We are running SAP BPC NW 10.0 SPS8.
We recieve a lot of complaints regarding performance issues.
More specifically BPC Input Schedule refresh takes ages (11 minutes actually)
I am a SAP Basis Administartor with some solid BW experience, but very linited BPC knowledge.
So raf we have tried the following :
* BPC Full and light ptmimize of the BPC Cubes.
* Updating Oracle Statistics
* Activating ABAP/SQL traces*
* Checking USJTAT Logs
Then it rutned out that the perfromance problems werre not caused by the backend SAP BW server (only 9 seconds of bakend processing are displayed in UJSTAT).
The overwhelming majority of the processing is spent on the frontend side : on the computer of the user.
We really would like to know what is happening on BPC Frontend side, but are really lacking any investigative method .....
other that checking memory/CPU usage o nthe frontend computer.
From your experience, is there any tool/method to allow to conduct some investigation on what is going on the frontend side, when a BPC Input Schedule is refreshed ?
Thank you for your attention.

Hello Vadim,
We still need to get confirmation from the external consultants who developed the BPC solution, but as far as I can understand it :
We do not use use member formulas
We are indeed talking about EPM (without EPMRetrieveData functions)
The perfromance problems occur in DEV and QAS , after a restore of the BPC environment (backup from PRD)
We already had the problem in the past, but we never knew precisely how to solve it, it is as if there was some missing links between the restored BPC environment from PRD and the DEV/QAS system
One additional information, we checked the EPM CLient Log , and here are the errors displayed while refreshing the input schedule :
The thing is that I have no idea what it means ...
?FILE_TYPE:DAAA96DE-B0FB-4c6e-AF7B-A445F5BF9BE2
RECORD_SEPARATOR:35
COLUMN_SEPARATOR:124
COLUMNS:Time|Severity|Category|Method|User|DSRRootContextID|DSRTransactionID|DSRConnectionID|DSRCounter|Thread|Text
SEVERITY_MAP:DEBUG|Debug|INFO|Information|VERBOSE|Verbose|WARNING|Warning|ERROR|Error|FATAL|Fatal
HEADER_END
2014-04-18 08:41:17,446|ERROR|ReportManagement|FPMXLClient.Office.EPMExcelReportManagerRepository.GetReportManager|BPCUSER|||||1|Unable to get the Object property of the OLEObject class#
2014-04-18 08:41:18,613|ERROR|ReportManagement|FPMXLClient.Office.EPMExcelReportManagerRepository.GetReportManager|BPCUSER|||||1|Unable to get the Object property of the OLEObject class#
2014-04-18 08:41:18,630|ERROR|ReportManagement|FPMXLClient.Office.EPMExcelReportManagerRepository.GetReportManager|BPCUSER|||||1|Unable to get the Object property of the OLEObject class#
2014-04-18 08:41:18,648|ERROR|ReportManagement|FPMXLClient.Office.EPMExcelReportManagerRepository.GetReportManager|BPCUSER|||||1|Unable to get the Object property of the OLEObject class#
2014-04-18 08:41:18,731|ERROR|ReportManagement|FPMXLClient.Office.EPMExcelReportManagerRepository.GetReportManager|BPCUSER|||||1|Unable to get the Object property of the OLEObject class#
2014-04-18 08:41:37,171|ERROR|ReportManagement|FPMXLClient.ReportManagement.DynamicReport.Load|BPCUSER|||||1|bytes = 1#
2014-04-18 08:41:39,348|ERROR|ReportManagement|FPMXLClient.ReportManagement.DynamicReport.Load|BPCUSER|||||1|bytes = 0#
2014-04-18 08:41:39,474|ERROR|ReportManagement|FPMXLClient.ReportManagement.DynamicReport.Load|BPCUSER|||||1|bytes = 0#
2014-04-18 08:41:39,536|ERROR|ReportManagement|FPMXLClient.ReportManagement.DynamicReport.Load|BPCUSER|||||1|bytes = 0#
2014-04-18 08:41:39,597|ERROR|ReportManagement|FPMXLClient.ReportManagement.DynamicReport.Load|BPCUSER|||||1|bytes = 0#
2014-04-18 09:00:22,088|ERROR|Dataservice|FPMXLClient.BPCProxy.MetaData_Data.DataServiceHelper.ExecuteReportAsStream|BPCUSER|||||ServerCallThread_666f378d-d824-4a8a-bf38-0da8493e2382|An error has occured on the server#
2014-04-18 09:00:22,252|ERROR|BPC10Connection|FPMXLClient.Connection.RESTConnection.ExecuteReport|BPCUSER|||||ServerCallThread_666f378d-d824-4a8a-bf38-0da8493e2382|An error has occured on the server#
2014-04-18 09:00:22,268|ERROR|OfficeWrappers|FPMXLClient.Office.EPMReportManager.ExecuteReport|BPCUSER|||||1|An error has occured on the server#
2014-04-18 09:00:22,317|ERROR|OfficeWrappers|FPMXLClient.Office.EPMExcelReportManager.RefreshReports|BPCUSER|||||1|An error has occured on the server#
2014-04-18 09:00:22,447|ERROR|AnalyzerOne|FPMXLClient.AddIn.RefreshSheetWithScan|BPCUSER|||||1|Execution of Report Default Report failed : #
2014-04-18 09:00:22,537|ERROR|Automation|FPMXLClient.EPMAddInAutomation.RefreshActiveSheet|BPCUSER|||||1|Execution of Report Default Report failed : #

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