Federated warehouse

Hi Experts,
I have been able to build a warehouse with data from operational system so we can report on. We are just using ROLAP (all tables - no MOLAP yet - but I would like to use AW at some point. I am using Microstrategy as reporting tool.
Now I have requirements to build federated warehouse. I need to aggregate data from operational systems in U.K office with operational system from the US. The customer dim is completely different between the two countries but for corporate analytics, I would like to have one giant customer dim (50 mill to start with).
I am thinking about doing rollups to certain level in the U.K (warehouse there) and then bring down top few levels over to US warehouse. But this is not federated warehouse, this is central warehouse. Perhaps I could enforce same ETL processes in the UK to reduce the effort.
Any suggestions on build federated warehouse ?. I am thinking distributed queries is bad. So I am leaning toward duplicating top few levels in both warehouses. I am not sure how microstrategy will deal with the metadata. Any suggestions
Ofcourse: platform is 10g R2.
Thanks a lot
Vissu

Hi,
Only the OWB 2.1.x version is certified with Apps 11i. This means that if you want to extend the intelligence modules which are shipped with 11i, then you have create an OWB repository which understands 11i - this is done using the OWB 2.1.x BIS Repository assistant as against the normal OWB 2.1.x Warehouse Repository assistant.
But, having said this, you can always install OWB 3i or OWB 9i independantly on the 11i 8.1.7 database (OWB 9i installs in a new home) and use it to connect to Apps tables, or any other tables elsewhere and do some OWB work !
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can anyone let me know the difference b/n data warehosue Business Objects and SAP Business Objects.....and aslo can u suggest which is the better future among these two tools....
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I think you are using India Localization. Sorry, I don't have any knowledge in that area.
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Jason Hattrick wrote:
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> I have successfully created a new user but I am not able to run the command:
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