Insert or Update data in SAP with Business Objects?

Hi all,
I am new to Business Objects world with my little expertise in Crystal Reports and Xclesius.
Could you please clarify me that is there any solution or technology or Product of Business Objects which not only make impressive dashboards and analyze the data but also can communicate with back end SAP R/3 to save or update data.
We are actually analyzing our Client requirements in which there is a need of Dashboards as well as some custom configurations that needs to be saved somewhere in the SAP system in order to make decisions in future.
Our back end system is SAP BW. One possibility is to use Adobe Flex as a base architecture with BSP and BW but we are more concerned with what BOBJ provides.
Looking forward for your suggestions.
Kind Regards
Umer Farooq

GR81 wrote:
I would like to know how I can insert or update data in a Google Spreadsheet from an Oracle Database please?
Thanks,you can't since Oracle knows nothing about spreadsheets; Google or otherwise.

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