Checklist for SAP BI 7.0 and BO XI 3.1 integration - Challenges

Hi Users who have successfully configured SAP BO XI 3.1 with SAP BI 7.0,
We are preparing to install SAP Integration Kit and follow through on the steps (..that I have come across in some of the docs on these forums ) that would enable our users to report using BO - Webi.
I would like to know what are the major challenges you have faced ? How did you resolve them or get around them?
I would like to know who are all the mandatory technical people (eg., sap security guy, BO admin,... ) that needs to be a part of this effort. What would be their specific role ? When would each of these guys come into the scope without whom we cant do this successfully?
What would be the basic checklist of things , hardware /software (eg., Service Pack #, SAP Notes, Universe version,..) that would go along with SAP BO XI 3.1 and SAP BI 7.0 that we would have to do before/while installing Integration Kit make our job as smooth as possible?
What are the DONT's and DO's of this work?
How to make sure the this process is optimized / justified (performance wise, ..)?
Are there any specific documents which shows the screenshots of this whole process end to end (i.e.,successfully install, configure, create/design the 1st Universe in BO based on BEx query, create the 1st query in BO, create the 1st report in BO, let the user view/edit/modify the report)?
Responses from anyone who has gone through all these steps smoothly & successfully (which might include tips, tricks) are greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

SP18 should be OK. We're at SP19. Again, a fair number of MDX related OSS Notes in SP20 and 21. Some integration enhancements are only being made to EHP1, so if you do apply SP, you might as well go to EHP1, e.g. Thomas Zureks has a couple of blogs on some of the enhancements
/people/thomas.zurek/blog/2009/03/06/better-performance-for-universe-based-access-to-bw
/people/thomas.zurek/blog/2009/03/16/faster-universe-based-access-to-bw-via-mdx
There are good things coming in WebI later in 2009. Of great interest to BW / WebI customers I think will be a feature called Query Stripping that is supposed to come in WebI SP3. In BEx, you can create a query with many free characteristics, which really provides the query user with a guided ad-hoc capability, where they can pull any of the free characteristics into a report. BEx does not include free characteristics in the generated SQL until the user specifically adds it to their report, so there is there is no performance impact of having several free characteristics available for use. This lets you have one BEx query that is extremely versatile.
A WebI document on the other hand, includes all objects in the query in the generated SQL, even though they are not actually used in a report. With query stripping, if the object is not used in the report, WebI can (as an option) remove references the the object(s) from the generated SQL. This gives you the same potential in WebI, to create a query with many objects in it, abd the user can drag them in / out of the report, providing you the ability to create one WebI query that can be the basis for for much more reporting.

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