Federated Portals and BI content creation

We are going to have our first opportunity to possibly federate portals. We have had a 7.0 Enterprise Portal for a while now and we are planning to upgrade one of our BW instances to 7.x. We are probably going to set up this BI instance so that it has its own dedicated Java engine rather than utilizing the Java engine in the Enterprise Portal. I understand that the BI Java stack is used for multiple purposes including the display of BI query results and the producing of portal content to be consumed by a consumer portal. My question is this: Can we create iViews on our Enterprise Portal to display the query results from the BI Java stack and not create any portal content on the BI Java stack? This would be similar to how we do it today with our 3.5 BI. The BW iViews are created on our Enterprise Portal but they display the query results from the BW Abap stack.

Tim,
Yes you can and that's how I typically address centralized management for ECC, BI, Bobj, u2026, CRM, and MDM pcd objects. Your approach should be RAI (Remote Application Integration) vs. RDL (Remote Delta Links). You'll Federate the Consumer (EP) with the Producer (BW Java stack). Setup SSO between these two systems and create a content producer. The iViews will be created in the consumer portal with the Federated alias you assigned when creating the content producer.
FPN - EP and BW Java Stack
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