Feasibility of SAP BO Publication For BEx Queries

Hi,
We have a handsome amount of workbooks that are broad casted everyday to users/portal using the precal server. Howver, we notice that the perfomance of precal servers in not fail safe and requires a lot of manual intervention in the production box from the basis team and well as bw support team to manually process and distribute the files.
In this respect, we were thinking of using SAP BO's publication to distribute the workbooks. We would give them the bex query which they would use to develop their universe and the report thereafter for distribution.
Please let me know if anyone has used BO Publication in this scenarios or whether this would be a recommended or scalable approach in future.

I have similar expeience with Cognos on top of SAP BW. I guess it's working the same way.
I'm talking about using BW as the datawarehouse and BO as a viewer on top - You are not moving data to another DB.
You'll be using the OLAP BAPI and the OLE DB for OLAP interfaces. Those interfaces write MDX queries the use the OLAP engin of BW. Usage of aggregates, OLAP cache, Security features and etc is transparent to the user.
I don't know about BO specific connectors or drivers. About performance, writing efficient MDX queries will make the performance OK. I don't know how BO deals with that.
What is CAD?
Tomer.

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Is this possible to have five different BEx queries in a single Universe ?? NO
Create 5 different charts(one chart from each BEx Query) in a single tab as in the current manual report. ?? YES
All the five Line charts should be downloadable to a single sheet in Excel ?? Possible- YES
should I use Web intelligence only? *WebI * or Data Federator
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As you are in SAP BI, I suggest you to go with BO Universe==>>WebI or DataFederator.
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Sol1 : Why you are creating 5 BEx queries?? Is there any calculations or restrictions??
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