We are giving SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio a closer look with the forthcoming 1.2 version providing some new critical functionality that is bringing it closer to feature-parity of BEx Web Application Designer (and Xcelsius Dashboards in some ways, too).
We currently have SAP BW 7.3 and SBOP 4.0 in use which gives us options as to where is the best place to deploy a DS App. We've installed the DS 1.1 addon and the .SCA to SBOP 4.0 and NW Java stack, respectively, with plans to benchmark some performances between the two platforms.
Some initial considerations I'm aware of is that if we chose to make some of these DS Apps mobile, that SBOP 4.0 deployment would be the natural required target, however it would seem that maybe there are some advantages of deploying solely to NW stack?
With 1.2 beginning to support UNX (we run BW and Universes for non-BW sources), I'm guessing this may push us close to SBOP deployment than NW as well, but wanted to hear from others if there's been better stability or performance or functionality considerations/experiences depending on targeted platform!