SAP BI4 SP2 Patch 7 Webi Connection to BW Best Practice

We are working with the version 4.0 SP 2 patch 7 of  BI4 and developing some reports with WEBI and we are wondering about wich is the best method to access to BW Data.
At the moment we are using BICS because read in no few places that this is the best method to consume BW DATA cause have improvements is perforance, hierarchies, etc, but i don't know if this is really true.
Are BICS the best method to access to BW Data, this is the way recomended by SAP?
In the fillter panel of a webi document, we cant use "OR" clause, is not possible use this clause????
When we working with hierarchies and change the hierarchy for the dimension value or viceversa the report throw an error of AnwserPromts API (30270)
When we working with BEX queries containning variables and try to merge that variable with a Report Prompt(From another query) , and execute the queries shows an error indicating that one prompt has no value.
(fAnyone experienced this problems too? anyone find out a solutions to this issues?
Best Regards
Martin.

Hi Martin
In BI 4.0 BICS is the method to access BW not universes.  .UNV based on BW are there for legacy.
Please look at this forum ticket with links on Best practices BI 4.0 - BW and if you do a search in SDN you can find many tickets on this topic.
How to access BEx directly in WEBI 4.0
Regards
Federica

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