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Best Practices for SAP BI using DB2 9 for z/OS - IBM Redbooks

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12.4 In<strong>for</strong>mation access<br />

As previously mentioned, in <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong>, objects that can be analyzed are called<br />

InfoProviders. As shown in Figure 12-3, there are two classes of InfoProviders:<br />

► Those that contain physical data, such as InfoObjects, InfoCubes, and DSO<br />

objects<br />

► Those that do not contain physical data, such as InfoSets, RemoteCubes, and<br />

MultiProviders<br />

InfoCubes, DSO objects, and InfoObjects are discussed in 12.2.1, “Other key<br />

elements in the in<strong>for</strong>mation model” on page 258.<br />

Figure 12-3 <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> InfoProviders<br />

A MultiProvider provides access to data from several InfoProviders and makes it<br />

available <strong>for</strong> reporting and analysis. As shown in Figure 12-3, a MultiProvider<br />

itself does not contain any data, but can be assembled from different<br />

combinations of InfoProviders.<br />

An InfoSet is a semantic layer <strong>using</strong> DSO objects and master data to create<br />

reports from these objects, in particular, joins between these objects. InfoSets<br />

are created and changed in the InfoSet Builder. You can define reports based on<br />

InfoSets <strong>using</strong> the BEx Query Designer.<br />

A RemoteCube is an InfoCube whose transaction data is managed externally<br />

rather than in <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong>. Only the structure of the RemoteCube is defined in <strong>SAP</strong><br />

<strong>BI</strong>. Data <strong>for</strong> reporting is read from another system <strong>using</strong> a BAPI.<br />

262 <strong>Best</strong> <strong>Practices</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> <strong>using</strong> <strong>DB2</strong> 9 <strong>for</strong> z/<strong>OS</strong><br />

MultiProvider<br />

InfoObject InfoCube ODS Object InfoSet RemoteCube<br />

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