Xcelsius connection to Crystal Report

Hi,

Can we connect Xcelsius directly to Crystal report without Live Office? Becasue I can see an option in Data Manager Xcelsius 2008 - "Crystal Report Data Consumer".

I know we can connect SAP BW via QAAWS for Xcelsius and we did that successfully.

But now we try to build Xselsuis dashboards on top of SAP R3 data. We know Crystal reports can talk to R3 directly, so we like to know whether Xcelsius can connect to Crystal reports to fetch R3 data. We don't have Live office set up in our implementation.

Appreciate any ideas.

Thanks

Jai