SAP Excelsius Presentation Design

Dear Forum,
I have use SAP Excelsius Presentation Design, using my excel worksheet to make some dashboard. BI is a new for me, before it i used Pentaho BI Designer and Pentaho BI Server. But i dont find the SAP Excelsius process stage like Pentaho.. there is a design module and server module, also Pentaho can use any kind of database system... Can any one give me the figure what product should i used if i want to make a live BI dashboard on web browser and automatically integrated with MS SQL database.
Thanks.
Susan

Hi Susan,
Unfortunately I do not know Pentaho... So, what do you mean by "process stage"?
I know that in future versions BO Tools will be able to pick data dinamically (at the same time) from several data sources besides BI, but I did not understand if this is the main point here (getting data from BI AND SQL Server together) or some live data updating into the dashboard (maybe both ).
Perhaps I could help further if you explain a bit more...
Kind Regards,
Marcio

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