Hi
Xcelsius can connect to XML feeds very easily through Excel XML Maps. So all I needed to do was to figure out a way to get an OBIEE Answers report data as an XML stream. Fortunately, OBIEE has robust web services support that can be leveraged to accomplish exactly that.
First, I installed Tomcat on my OBIEE 10.1.3 environment. This version of OBIEE ships with OC4J, and it is running on my server, but I am not that familiar with it, and with deploying applications on it, so it was just as easy for me to install Apache Tomcat (I used Tomcat 6), which runs on port 8080 by default and used that for running my code.
Next, I spent most of the time figuring out which libraries I needed to add to Tomcat in order to instantiate and use the OBIEE web services classes. After a lot of experimentation, I found all I needed is packed into a single JAR file, sawsoapstubs.jar, this is of course not documented anywhere. Once I had a Tomcat server running with the correct lib, the rest was a piece of cake.
Of course, more can be done to integrate security and generalize the query access as needed, but the fundamentals are laid here.
So, here is what I did, and what you would need to do if you wanted to reproduce this in your OBIEE environment and produce stunning Xcelsius dashboards as part of your OBIEE implementation
Below link will be useful for you
http://xcelsius.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/video-xml/
http://****************/Tutorials/BSP/Xcelsius/Index.htm
http://scn.sap.com/thread/1157223
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B53boUlwXU8
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-10478
http://blog.davidg.com.au/2011/10/excel-data-sources-for-webi-and.html
Regards
NK