Role of Informatica and Cognos in SAP

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 6:51 AM

Dear All,
I have answer for this query which is answered on other threads.
The role of informatica and cognos in the SAP is as same as like other ETL tools
and BAPI is nothing but Business Application Programming Interface which acts as a
interface between non sap source systems and sap OLAP warehouse .
Regards
Mohan

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