Portal & Spend Performance Mgmt

Hi Experts,
I would like to have your advice on our SPM/ Portal approach.
We have Spend Performance Management in our landscape and I was asked to integrate it with Portal. The URL I was given is
http://<webdisp_host>:<webdisp_port>/sap/fcprt?app-config=spm
where 'webdisp' is our Webdispatcher listening at port 8105.
I read about SPM and understood that SAP provides a business package SSAUI for this purpose.
My question is should I go ahead with creating URL iview pointing to the above URL/ add it to a custom role and assign it to End Users? OR should we install SSAUI and enable the integration?
What are the benefits of going with SSAUI? URL iView on the other hand is simpler, doesn't require any installation etc.
Regards,
Reshma

Thanks Michael, I will go ahead and use SSAUI.
I have a related question.
Do we need to install Adobe Flash Player on the SAP portal too? Or would it be sufficient that it be installed on the ABAP stack and called by the web dispatcher? Since we would still be launching SPM as a separate application (not hosted on Portal).
Regards,
Reshma

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