Connectin BPC 10 to IDT

Hi all,
I have quite an urgent question that I need some guidance from all you SAP gurus on!
According to documentation we have found it is possible to connect BPC 10 to BI4 using Information Design Tool. Unfortunately, despite dowloading the relevant software and obtaining log ins we have not been able to complete the connection process.
So far we have:
Installed Business Objects BI platform 4.0 with Information Design Tool (IDT), BPC 10, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package ATL Security Update on the Planning and Consolidation Web server and ODBO provider.
Each time we try to connect the errot mesage:
'no hosting information design tool could be found.'
Any advice would be really apprecaited!
Thank you in advance for any help.
Sara

Hello M.A Volodina,
My team and I are currently facing a similar situation, could you please help us with your expertise?
Requisite: We are trying to create Web Intelligence reports on top of information
hosted at BPC MS 10 level, how ever BPC MS XMLA connection does not
retrieve any values, and w hen it does it takes long runtimes (sometimes
throw s timeout error).
Thank you for your help
Best regards,
Raquel Oliveira

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