Partitioning BSO to ASO to get around FDM limitations

FDM only currently loads to BSO Essbase cubes. However, one of our FDM-loaded BSO cube is far better suited to being ASO, not least because it has:
- Twelve dimensions.
- A huge "customer" hierarchy (over 40,000 members), which is purely aggregating.
- Most of the other dimensions are also purely aggregating (although there are a few complex calcs on specific members).
The sheer size of the BSO cube outline and the data being loaded results in prohibitive calculation times, so we are looking for a workaround.
Thoughts at present are to create an ASO cube (effectively copying and converting the current outline to ASO using the Wizard), create a replicated partition to transfer data from the BSO to ASO cube (mostly from level-0 members) and to use the BSO cube purely as a data-entry point. Users would then report from the ASO cube, which could be refreshed from the BSO cube when required.
This would then mean that upper-level members and any calculations in the BSO cube are pretty much redundant.
Does anyone agree with, or have any reservations on the above idea? Is there potentially a better method here? Also, could anyone please hazard a guess on how long the replicated partition refresh might take?

Is the BSO cube only loaded from FDM / other loads? Or are users entering data? Is it an Essbase or Planning app?
While it is true that there isn't a FDM adapter to load into ASO, you do not have to go from a BSO cube to the ASO cube for the data loads. Just have FDM export to a flat file and load that into ASO using maxl / batch script.
Deanna Sunde
Sr. Director
The Hackett Group

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