Informatica and Cognos

Dear Experts,
I would like to know what is the role of Informatica and Cognos in SAP as a 3rd party interfacing tool ?
What is BAPI ?
Regards
Mohan
Edited by: Mohan Kumar on Jul 9, 2008 6:50 AM

Hi Shana,
Is Informatica a OLTP system like R/3 ? If yes, then from this I understand that Informatica is another ERP like SAP where it gets data from users like R/3 and generate reports.
When Informatica is connected to SAP, ETL process invols extraction of reports -> do some modification -> load and generate reports on these, pls correct me if I am wrong.
Here there are 2 ETL stages right ? one Informatica itself a ETL tool and 2nd ETL when it is connected to SAP.
Informatica and R/3 are they same in functionality ?
Regards
Mohan

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