Can anyone help me out in understanding the key differences (in detail) in the design considerations to optimize universes that will be used for WebIntelligence reporting and universes that will be used for BusinessObjects reporting.
Thanx,
trupti 
(BOB member since 2003-06-23)
No. I doubt anyone can tell you this. In my opinion, there should be no change in universe design because of WebI.
If you find that all reports require that you build multiple data providers from 1 universe, you may find the need to consolidate multiple facts into a single table. However, you can generally solve this problem by the “proper” use of contexts and aliases.
The bottom line is that you shouldn’t need to rebuild your database or universe for WebI.
Steve Krandel 
(BOB member since 2002-06-25)
The only thing I might add to what Steve said is that in prior versions (2.7.x and earlier) Webi could not do variables. So you might have to create more objects in the universe as a result. Now that Webi supports local variable creation, I think that issue goes away.
Dave
Dave Rathbun (BOB member since 2002-06-06)
To add to what Dave said – WebI version 6, if you are on it, supports local variable creation…
Anita Craig (BOB member since 2002-06-17)
I thought I already said that, as in:
Dave Rathbun 
(BOB member since 2002-06-06)
Oh, I was just trying to be helpful. 
Since this isn’t the WebI 6 forum, but the Designer forum – and since not everyone can/will upgrade just yet – some folks might not have realized you were referring to version 6…
Anita Craig (BOB member since 2002-06-17)