BI reporting against Cognos Cubes

Hi everybody,
I am currently with the need to creat reports in an SAP BI environment, against info being storaged in a Cognos DW. I haven't been able to find the right tool or procedure, but I know there is one.
Is there anyone how has done this before and could point me in the right direction ?
Regards,
Santiago J. Reig

Hi Santiago,
Actually I have no experience with such an interfacing of SAP BW.
According Open Analysis Interfaces:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/Helpdata/EN/d9/ed8c3c59021315e10000000a114084/content.htm
it seems that MDX (Multi-Dimensional Expressions) interface is used to connect third-party front-end tools to BW not vice versa.
But your case is to connect BW as front end tool to back end tool which is Cognos. Am I right here?
BR
m./

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