Extract BPC 5.0 data for BI reporting

Hi,
I want to know, in order to extract data from a BPC 5.0 (microsoft version) for reporting in BI tools do I need to connect to underlying SQL tables or can I leverage the Analysis Services cubes as OLAP source.
If it is SQL tables, how is the application database structured in terms of dimensions and facts. How easy it is to figure them out and build a relationship between the tables in the BI modeling layer.
Appreciate you taking time to answer.

Within BPC's standard functionality delivered in ApShell, there are two packages
"Export" - exports from the OLAP cube (aggregate members, choose your measure, etc.)
"Export from fact tables" - exports.. .well.. from the fact tables!
Both of these generate a text file and allow you some flexibility to set up dimension mappings and some other useful features.
You should certainly use one or both of those, if at all possible, since they involve no custom development. The data manager guide gives fairly complete documentation of the options available.
Or if you need a more elegant / sophisticated / integrated export routine, you can go either to the underlying SQL tables, or OLAP cube, or some combination of both, using DTS programming for automation.
In either approach, the SQL fact tables will be faster than the OLAP cube. I've never tried a customized OLAP export, but have done a few SQL custom exports, which give complete flexibility to map data against conversions using member properties, aggregate data from BPC base members to the export system's base members, etc. using standard SQL in a stored proc. (You could also do these using DTS, but I find it easier to stage the export using SQL; just my personal preference.)
I'm not sure, in an OLAP export, how you'd access that kind of metadata information.
The key tables are
tblFactAppName
tblFac2AppName
tblFactWBAppName
and then
mbrAccount
mbrTime
mbrDimension
etc. for each dimension

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