Live Data Connection to SAP Universes and Web Intelligence Documents

You can create live data connections to SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Universes and Web Intelligence documents using the Direct connection type.

Prerequisites
Direct Connection
Note
To make the direct live connection available to users on the internet, see Direct Live Connections in the Internet Scenario.
Note

The SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect component must be deployed on your server. For more information, see the SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect Installation and Security Guide available here.

Note

To prevent errors in your charts associated with session timeouts, we recommend using the latest version of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Universes available on SMP.

Supported Features and Known Limitations