Best approach-several infotypes requested to be extracted/modeled in SAP BI

Hello Gurus!
The business wants to pull the data from about 150 HR infotypes (including 9-series) into SAP BI. The requirement has been blessed and it is a go (maybe the total number might increase over 150 but not decrease)!! The main premise behind such a requirement is to be able to create ad-hoc reports from BI (relatively quickly) on these tables.
Now, has anyone of you heard of such a requirement - if so, what is 'best practice' here? Do we just blindly keep modeling/creating 150 DSOs' in BI or is there a better way to do this? Can we atleast reduce the work load of creating models for all these infotypes, somehow? (maybe create views, etc.?)
Any kind of response is appreciated. Thank you in advance. Points await sensible responses.
Regards,
Pranav.

Personally, I'd say the best approach for this would be not to extract the Infotypes at all and use Crystal Reports to generate ad-hoc queries directly against the Infotypes in your R3/ECC environment. This would eliminate the need to extract and maintain all of that data in BW and unless you have SAP Business Objects Enterprise installed on top of SAP BW, "relatively quick" ad-hoc queries in BW is not what I would call a common theme (BEx Analyzer, which is what I'm assuming is your reporting UI solution for this, isn't exactly user-friendly).
If you must bring all of these Infotypes in SAP BW, creating views of Infotype data may be your best bet. It would definitely reduce the number of repositories on your BW environment, thereby reducing your maintenance time and costs.

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/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2005/12/21/use-this-crazy-piece-for-any-rfc-mapping-lookups
/people/alessandro.guarneri/blog/2006/03/27/sap-xi-lookup-api-the-killer
cheers,
Prashanth
P.S Please mark helpful answers

Best approach-several infotypes requested to be extracted/modeled in SAP BI

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