Xcelsius Connectivity with BI

Hi Gurus,
I have few questions about connecting Xcelsius directly to BW.
1] Is there any downside of directly creating connection between Xcelsius and SAP?
2] For how long QaaWS would be available?
3] If given an option which way we should go QaaWS or conneting directly to BW?
Please clarify.
Thanks

The main benefits of leveraging QaaWS for your connections are:
1. Ease of use -- it is typically easier to leverage the web services created and provided by QaaWS to facilitate the consumption of live data.
2. Security/Filtering -- Xcelsius can leverage the identity of the viewing user if the Xcelsius file leverages QaaWS. QaaWS objects are contained within the managed environment, and therefore require a logon to BusinessObjects. By leveraging Access Restrictions in the Universe, or other user variable data, one could dynamically return a row set depending on the viewer's identity. This would be much more difficult to do seamlessly in a custom connectivity solution.
I don't see QaaWS disappearing anytime soon, unless a better connection methodology presents itself in the newer versions of Xcelsius (now SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards).
So long as the query that the Universe generates is optimized, and the data set returned to Xcelsius is highly aggregated (i.e. small), then it should work well as a solution.
Thanks,
Allan

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