Antivia XWIS Advantage Express is an add-on by Antivia that lets us connect to Web Intelligence documents, Crystal Reports, and even SQL databases and OLAP cubes. Also, it comes with a large set of components to display and analyze the retrieved data.
As we have seen in Chapter 8, Dashboard Data Connectivity, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards is already able to connect to a number of data sources. This recipe will show you some of the capabilities of Antivia XWIS Advantage Express and the advantages it has over the standard connection types.
Go to the Antivia website (http://www.antivia.com/xwis-advantage-express/) and download the free 50-name user license. This recipe won't discuss the server-side installations for the Antivia framework that are required to run Antivia XWIS Advantage Express.