"BW BEx - IDT - BO" or "BW export to HANA view - IDT - BO"

Hello Gurus,
The customer I work for is planning on moving to a BW on HANA environment. One of the questions that came up was around usability of BO in the post-hana world. Unfortunately I could not get hold of any customer experience to get to a logical conclusion.
Option 1 ) We continue to use the standard approach. Consume data from BW BEx queries via BICS connection into Business OBjects
Option 2 ) The second option comes with the feature that BW on HANA provider. You could export an Infoprovider into a view inside HANA(it has a setting to be enable during activation). This would mean we the same data could be consumed from a column-view via a normal RDBMS connection.
In terms of better performance and a stable architectural approach, what could be a better suggestion and why ...
Thanks,
Prabhu DC

Hi, Prabhu.
I wish I had an answer, but I just have a similar question. We have a customer considering moving from a BEX environment to HANA, and wants some use cases that would justify the move, and perhaps some customer stories. So far, I have come up dry.
If you should trip over anything that would help us, please let me know, and I will do the same for you.
Thanks, Prabhu.
Steve Phelan (not a guru)

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Greetings,
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          //          // http://support.crystaldecisions.com/forums/message.asp?fid=76&mid=94272
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Hello, Robert;
The code to logon, set parameters and export appears fine. Can you send me the code that defines the report, calls these functions and passes the report to the viewer? I would like to see the order in which it is happening.
Does the application have rights to the folder you are exporting to?
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Hi,
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I'm completely new to the discussion forum.
So hope this hasn't been covered, but the bug is there none the less.
When Exporting a Keynote 09 slide or slides that use some of the
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Wow, thank you so much for quick replies!
Ok ill try and explain more.
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Edited to add: Never mind, it appears that you sometimes have to re-do the font settings in Document Properties again. I might be mis-interpretting the conditions that lead up to what I saw, but if my assumption is correct I didn't realize this step needed to be repeated when new objects are added.

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