Excelsisu Best Data Connectivity Approach: BI Services & Live Office?

Hi guys,
I the next months we have planned to develop several Excelsius dashboards based on existing web intelligence queries. After carefully reading all documentation we have concluded that for this purpose the most suitable approaches for data connectivity are:
- Use BI Services (Qaaws method)
- Use Live Office
Leaving apart license considerations (we have Live Office licenses) we are internally discussing about which should be the choosen method to develop all dashboards.
Both seems to fullfill basic requirements: security restrictions, access to special data (totals, orders by)
Question is: what is your opinion about? Considering the future release of SP4 do you know which method best fit future migrations?

Hi,
You have three options currently. QaaWS, BI Services and Live Office.
In BI4.0 QaaWS is effectively replaced by the query pane in Xcelsius, which lets you connect an Xcelsius model directly to a universe.
In BI4.0, you can also create BI Services from the web client, you no longer need to use the Webi Rich Client.
Read this for an overview and comparison of the three. http://blog.davidg.com.au/2011/04/live-office-vs-qaaws-vs-bi-services.html
Having just migrated a dashboard with 44 connections from Live Office to BI Services, I can tell you that BI Services are much faster, and easier to work with.
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