Cognos reporting on top of SAP BW

Hi,
Have anyone of you been involved in an implementation where COGNOS is used as the frontend reporting tool with SAP BW as the backend. If so, could you please pass on the setup/architecture document if you have any.
Also, can Cognos access BW infoproviders and generate reports or is it necessary to build BEx queries to interface with Cognos.
Thanks & Regards
Madhu

Hi,
By using Cognos we can access BW infoproviders and generate reports . It is easily possible because of interface provided SAP and Cognos.
But Still there are problem are there with this integration. For ex: You can not create queries directly on ODS , REstriction KF concept is not at all possible( this is very worst behavior).
With rgds,
Anil Kumar Sharma .P
Recently started working on a this Cognos & BW integration project. So We can share our experience mutually.

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