Oracle OLAP Universe

Not sure where to post this so apologize if this is not the right place for this post.
I am at a client's where there is a requirement to build a universe on top of an Oracle OLAP (10g) cube to use with WebI, Crystal, Xcelsius etc. that they want to begin using. Here are the issues I am facing and need some help with.
1) They have a view built on top of their OLAP that I have been told is what is used for reporting. There are also 3 heirarchies that are maintained in Peoplesoft. The have developed a reporting interface using BO SDK API's and have their own custom SQL engine that they have built using Java. They use this SQL engine attached to a Crystal template to build their reports (The last part didn't make sense to me so quoting it verbatim as I have limited familiarity). When I try creating a universe using the view mentioned above in Designer, it throws an error with the mesasge E_METADATA_EMPTY_LEVELLIST. When I try using Universe builder to create the universe, as soon as I right click on the cube to select 'create universe', it hangs up infinitely. My question is if this is even possible and if so, what is the solution to my problem above.
2) The second issue is that while the fact are in the OLAP, they maintain 2-3 heirarchies in PeopleSoft. From what I have gathered by talking to them, they use some DBLINK from the OLAP to connect to Peoplesoft and join the OLAP view with the Peoplesoft heirarchy when they dynamically build their queries to fetch the data for their reports. If I have to do this in the universe as well, how would I go about doing it or is it even possible?
Really need an answer fast. If what I'm trying to do is possible then I would need to some help with the 'how and if the answer is 'no' then I would need a proper explanation for that too.
Appreciate the help !!
Kartik

Hi,
Rather than move all your data to another cube like SSAS as has been suggested, or go back to the relational source, why not just use Voyager to connect directly to the Oracle OLAP cube you have already built?
Simba's MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP allows Voyager to do this.
This would be much simpler than introducing a new tier of server (SSAS), and allows you to take advantage of the performance of the OLAP engine in the Oracle database.
http://www.simba.com/oracle
in particular, look at the document that describes how to set this up:
http://www.simba.com/docs/Using-Simba-MDX-Provider-for-Oracle-OLAP-with-SAP-BusinessObjects-Voyager.pdf
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