Real Advantages of Data Integrator integrated with SAP

Hi
Can anybody please tell me what is the real advantages of Data Integrator reading from SAP R3 / ECC and performing ETL to SAP BW 7.
I do not know enough on the intergration between the two systems. I have a perspective client looking at the solotion but needs some motivation.
Thanks

I would definitely not go down that route. There is good R/3 to BW integration, without BODI in the middle. In this scenario I would see BODI as overhead only, which will slow your development down and will show your day to day load processes down. I can't see any benefit at all.
If you have complicated transformations, use ABAP in your transformations. That is much more powerful than scripting on the BODI side.
If you do use BODI you will find it a struggle first to extract data from R/3 and then to load data into BW. You probably end up creating a lot of extra objects on both sides just to make BODI work. BODI will certainly not make your load processes better performing and from a maintenance point of view I don't see any benefits at all.
Maybe in the future when BODI has a better integration with both R/3 and BW it might become useful, but at this point in time I fail to see any benefits.
I would only use BODI if I wanted to integrate data from various platforms, not for a single (SAP) platform.
I would advise against a scenario using BODI for loading R/3 to BW.
I hope this helps...
Jan.

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