UD Connect to SQL Server using Remote Cube(URGENT !!!!)

Question

Hi all,
Scenario:
I am new to Remote/Virtual Cubes and I think everyone is new to Universal Data Connect (UD Connect).  I have to create a prototype using Remote Cube to create a front end reporting tool for one of our partners that does not have an SAP system.  So instead of our partner buying a front end tool to do querying on their database we decided to create the solution from our BW system by using Remote Cubes with UD connect since we just upgraded to 3.5 .  The legal limitation prevent us from loading the data on our system so we have to use remote cubes. 
Question:
I know RCs  are limited when it comes to the amount of data that they report on and the number of users that can use them but I don't have exact numbers.... I'm quiet certain that no one really know the 'exact' limit but it would help if i know the approx figures I'm working with.  I need to come with with a prototype ASAP so it can be decided if we want to go ahead with this. 
I would appreciate ANY help from anyone regarding this issue and if you can think of some more issues that i might encounter pls let me know.  It would be great if someone who has gone thru this can guide me as well...Thank you all in advance.
ML

Answer 1

Hi,
1) DB Connect is something like the grandfather of UD Connect (simply put).
2) Here is some documentation about UDC:
http://help.sap.com --> SAP NetWeaver --> [release, language] --> SAP NetWeaver --> Information Integration --> SAP Business Information Warehouse --> Data Warehousing --> Data Retrieval --> Data Transfer with UD Connect
directly:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/78/ef1441a509064abee6ffd6f38278fd/frameset.htm
3) Customer Call Series recordings, presentations, etc.:
http://service.sap.com/nw-cc
(the webex session for UDConnect was on 17th March)
4) UD Connect uses the 4 Connector types that SAP provides, like XML, ODBO, JDBC and SAP Query. They same connectors are used by the Bi Java SDK, which is included in the Visual Composer by the BI Kit.
While in the UDC scenario you can either extract or remotely access the data and build structures for it, in the VC scenario you just make remote access to the data.
Performance in either case depends on the amount of data and the kind of navigation and aggregation you require on the data made on the backend system (your MS SQL Server). And of course from network, load on the systems, etc.
Servus
Mario