Managing Data Providers

Below are the main tasks you can perform on data providers.

Data providers are data sources used to build queries in Web Intelligence documents.

A data provider can be:

  • A universe
  • A BEx query
  • A Microsoft Excel 2003 or Microsoft Excel 2007 spreadsheet
  • A free-hand SQL script

The present guide also describes methods specific to:

Restriction

The following workflows are not supported:

  • Using Analysis Views as data source for a new data provider
  • Changing data source when based on Analysis Views and Custom Data Provider