As i recently was reading some stuff in the SDN i've found a short summary about the Xcelsius Q&A from the SAP TechEd Clubhouse. As i am not really satisfied with the data connectivity options of Xcelsius 2008 i was really interested in the question "What is the future for data connectivity in Xcelsius?".

The Answer to this question was really disenchanting to me.

1.) Yes there will be major improvements in data connectivity (as i suppose especially for SAP BW/BI)
2.) These improvements should be seen in the next release in 2010.

This is quite disappointing to me, as the SAP / BO Roadmap of August 2008 told us, that there will be a major Xcelsius+ release in 2009. Extending The Value of SAP NetWeaver BI with
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