Data federator in business objects

Hi,
What is the use of data federator in business objects.
Regards,
G

HI,
The only option in this case is to 1) use Business Objects' Data Federator to bring XYZ data and BW (new) data together, 2) creating a relational universe, and 3) creating Crystal / WEBI reports using the relational universe; see Picture 1.
>> You can also combine the data by using a MultiProvider in BW which is access the data in BW and the data in the legacy system and an additional alternative is to move all the data into BW.
After 20 years goes by, and we no longer need to report on data housed in XYZ anymore, the environment will be turned off.
1) When this happens, wouldn't we want to remove Data Federator and the relational universe from the scenario ?
>> That depends on the approach you took
Ingo

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Hi Shameer,
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http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/bodessdk.chm
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Hi,
I have no idea about business objects.What are business objects and as a functional consultant what I can do with business objects meaning can I give some additional things with very little efforts to my client or may be some convinience in use of SAP using business objects ?
WHat and where business objects can be useful ?
Please suggest.
Thanks in advance
Regards,
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Hi,
What are business objects and as a functional consultant what I can do with business objects?
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/59/ae4484488f11d189490000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
Business objects are real world entities modeled as objects in an information system.
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WHat and where business objects can be useful ?
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Attributes
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Methods
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