WAD vs VC

What really differentiates Visual Composer from Web Application Designer?
I know it depends on in-house skill set but when do we use VC and when do we use WAD?
Thanks,
Praveen.

Hi Praveen,
You can use a BI query (that you built with BEx Query Designer) and use it in a dashboard built with Visual Composer. The VC is "similar" to some extent to the WAD, you can also build charts with VC.
The main differences are that WAD can only use BW-objects, while VC can use RFCs, JDBC, ODBO, XMLA, WebServices, SAP Query and BI datasources (~queries). While the WAD only builds "Analytical Applications", you can integrate transactions and analytics with the VC. But at the moment the pure analytical capabilities of the WAD are much stronger.
As VC runs in the portal you only connect the portal with the BW and VC can access this system. Although there are some limitiations: BW 3.1 can only be accessed through the XMLA connector, for BW 3.5 and higher we have a special access through RFCs to use the BW specific functionality.
Assign Points if this is helpful.
Regards,
Anil

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