Conectivity between BIW infocubes and Business Object (BO)

Hello everybody
I need to create some reports using BO that access to BIW infocubes. Do you know if there is any direct conectivity or if it can be done using any other tool as ODBC or whatever?
Any documentation about this subject will be appreciate.
Regards, and thanks in advance, Inma

Hello,
There is direct connectivity to BW infocubes as well as to BW queries.
You can find some documentation at the following link:
http://support.businessobjects.com/documentation/product_guides/

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