BW Crystal Reports interface

Hi,
We are planning using Crystal reports for one of our applications. Can some one please provide me the system requirements and the steps involved in setting up the connection between BW and Crystal reports. Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Doniv

As of now only Crystal Report is having direct connectivity with with SAP BEx Query Designer. As per SAP Marketing Team, they will be integrating Xcelsius with SAP soon, and its currently in development phase. Though you can use Xcelsius with Crystal Report, and then connect to SAP.
Web Intelligence is more for the purpose of showing universe reports on BO web. I have not seen any option till now which connects Web Intelligence directly with SAP.
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