Loading BPC data back to BW for reporting.

Hi All,
We are in NW BPC 7.5 and the tool is not matching up to the drill-down reporting capabilities of BW so we need to pull the plan data back to BW for Plan/Actual reporting. I am interested in knowing about the best practice to achieve this.
1. Flat Files dump and loads - not acceptable as it beats the purpose of NW based BPC.
2. BW ETL - I understand the technical names of BPC Application Cube change after optimiztion and between Dev Q and Prod so ETL would need constant changes.
Any other options / recommendations ?
Regards
Anupam

I agree with Ethan's reply as being the preferred route. But regarding your original question and the option of using ETL. Keep in mind that the only way the InfoCube might change when full optimization is run is IF there are more than 13 dimensions in the application. Otherwise, BW assigns each characteristic to its own BW dimension (of which there are possible 16 with 3 being predefined). So if you have an application with less than 13 dimensions and you feel this will be stable, then you can probably safely go ahead and build an ETL process directly against the BPC cube without risk that it will be impacted by optimization.
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