Essbase Studio: Regarding data sources

Hi,
Just wanted to know a thing about Essbase Studio.
Does my back-end datasource have to have tables/views in a star schema format? Is this mandatory for me when I use Studio to build/deploy cubes?
Or I can use generation views/tables also?
thanks to all.
Avishek!

It doesn't have to but it makes life much easier.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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