BPC 7.5 and BI 7.0

Hello experts,
We are running BPC 7.0 MS with SQL 2008. We have drill through capabilities in some applications and we run SSIS packages to bring data from Staging database to the bpc table (Both bpc and staging are in same server).
Now we are planning to bring BI 7.0 and upgrade to 7.5 MS for better drill through capabilities. I would appreciate if someone explain how the data flow happens in a similar environment (R/3 - BI and BPC 7.5 MS) I am looking in terms of how SSIS is setup and whether they use staging database for drill throughs.
I keep hearing about 7.5 MS with improved drill through features. Can someone shed light on that area as well.
Thanks in advance.
Mani
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Hi Mani,
Please forgive me I cannot answer all questions you made above because of limitation of my knowledge,
Regarding relationship with R/3(ECC) and BPC 7.5 MS and BI,
It is one of way you have staging table to see FI/FM and CO data for sales and expenses, you need to handle SSIS with RFC as you mentioned, why don't you directly go to the table of FI/FM and CO with ITS. SAP ITS(Internet Transport Service?) is an application that generates URL(Drill through is based on URL) from ECC. This will make you more flexible for your future application roadmap since you make a bridge intuitively to the OLTP from OLAP.
If not, you can use RFC to connect ECC direclty or dump data from ECC using SSIS(including RFC). Please refer to the following
http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/4/D/A4D3C6FA-408F-4E77-8892-ED4C7E4ECF8A/Microsoft_BI_Interoperability_with_SAP_White_Paper-042309-r2v100-F5.docx
Hope this helps,
YH Seo

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