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Using QaaWS to drive your Xcelsius Dashboards

Keeping right in line with the other blogs that I have written about QaaWS (What is a QaaWS and Quick and Dirty Guide to Creating a QaaWS) I decided to put together a quick one and a dashboard to show how to leverage your Business Objects Universe to fuel your Xcelsius Dashboards.

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Quick and Dirty Guide to Creating a QaaWS

With Query as a Web Service (QaaWS) becoming such a hot topic and being such a powerful tool, I figured that creating a quick cheat sheet on how to create one would be beneficial to all developers/users using this product. Check out below the steps needed to create your very own QaaWS.

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What is Query as a Web Service (QaaWS)?

Query as a Web Service (QaaWS) is a SAP Business Objects (BOBJ) client-side tool that allows users to create and publish Web Services that can be made available over the Web. Once these web services are created and published, they can be consumed like any other standard Web Service in software applications including Xcelsius and Crystal Reports. But before we go any further into what QaaWS is and how it works, lets take a step back and look at what exactly is a Web Service.

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