External System accessing BI DB

Hi,
We are on BI 7.0 and we have a requirement for an external non SAP system to access the BI DB to fetch data out of an ODS. I have read about the Open Hub Services of BI, but it doesnt really explain how an External System can open a ODBC connection to access the BI DB. Any suggestions would be helpful....

I can't offer a lot of deep insite, but in order to open data for ODBC access, you need to build a query on top of the object and release it for ODBO (third tab in the query property window). Then, the ODBC connection should be able to view the query.
Another thing to note, reading data from SAP into another non-SAP system has some license impacts. You will want to verify with your account manager that you are able to legally do this.

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