BPC 7.0NW Reporting

Hi,
Current we are using BI7 cube with WAD for reporting, after BPC7.0NW GA (Feb 09) we are planning to use BPC front-end (excel reporting) with BI cubes. Do see any problem? or
We are loading actual data & master data into BI, do we need to related this data again into BPC namespace to use BPC excel front-end reporting? Here there is no plan data involved, all data are actual and actual reporting only.
Thanks
Ramesh

Using BPC 7.0 NW, you must use the BPC admin interface to create new BPC-controlled BI cubes, in a \CPMB\ namespace dedicated to BPC. Only these cubes are available for reporting from the BPC Excel user interface. Other existing BI cubes can't be accessed directly from BPC.
There are tools to move data & master data back and forth between the BPC-controlled cubes & existing BI cubes, but there are a number of complexities & design considerations.

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from t
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and dt < trunc( &&dateexec. ,'month')
undefine dateexecThe dateexec parameter is just here to "simulate" sysdate of different points in year.
<i>(your actual query would have sysdate where the dateexec parameter appears)</i>
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07/01/2012 00:00:00        678
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Please advice on the below lanscape of BPC7.0NW for BPC Consolidation:
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