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Hi,
I was wondering what your experiences are with BO on top of BW regarding performance.
Kind regards,
Daniel

Hi Ingo,
we're facing similiar problems and my basis admin tells me that he already expand the ABAP memory alocation using 70% of the physical memory, also we have Enhancement Package 1 installed, but we're still facing the same error message.
FYI, the BO server uses 8 GB of RAM and 8 core processor, the SAP BW server uses 16 GB of RAM and 8 core processor. We want to analyze 3 years of daily data from highest hierarchi down to the details. We have 3 hierarchies :
1. Sales : sales organization - sales office - distribution channel - customer group - sold to party
2. Material : material group 1 - material group 2 - material group 3 - material
3. Time : year - guarter - month - day
so far we are able to query only 1 week of data using webi and that generates 900+ webi report pages. the total rows of whole data is roughly 12 million rows. any suggestions?
Thx

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