Recreation of Info-Views as Business Views

Hello,
We have been running reports on Crystal 7 (Seagate Info 7) and have installed BOXI R2 and managed to migrate the reports to Crystal XI. Just not sure if we have done this in the most effective way and if issues can arise from how we have set up the data sources.
There was no direct migration tool to bring the reports onto the new system. Moreover, we work on a Baan IV database and have had some issues trying to use the Universe Module and so have are using Business Views.
The old reports were using info-views, we recreated the these info-views as business views on BOXI. In doing so, we made a data foundation including all tables and links as to accommodate for the tables needed by the all of the info views. From there, we created appropriate business elements, specifying the fields used. And finally, the respective business views. By changing the datasource (Database -> Set datasource location) we were able to use the same reports as before but through the business views.
We put all of the tables and linked them inside of the same data foundation. We figured the benefit was that in the case we needed to create new business views that we would have access to any table we wanted. So the question is, does this lower the performance (take longer to run reports) or possibly cause problems with data integrity? Should we have migrated the reports another way?

I am configuring the SNC settings now.
BI is 64 bit
Bobj is 32 bit non IA server.
During this process I need to install Win 32 bit sap crypto lib in my system. After that there are profile settings in BI which need to be made which conflict with the existing SSO configuration:
Current settings in default profile:
snc/identity/asp:SAPServiceDB1@domain name snc/gssapi_lib C:\WINDOWS\ime(x86)\gx64krb5.dll
New parameters to be created in the instance profile as described in the BOBJ documentation:
snc/identity/asp:CN=DB1, OU=SAP, O=domain name, C=US
snc/gssapi_lib E:\usr\sap\DB1\SYS\exe\run\sapcrypto.dll
The main issue with be the library dll.
One more thing.
The SAP crypto library nees to be installed on the SAP server (64bit) and the BOBJ server (32bit). I was unable to locate a 32bit version for Windows x86. There is a x86/IA32 version but unknown if this is
compatible.
The IA32 reference is usually specific to itanium servers which we do not have.
Please advice.
Thank you,
Padman
Edited by: Padmanaban on Nov 14, 2008 5:02 PM

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