Universe on a SAP R/3 Database

I know it is not possible to build a Universe on a R/3, but this is possible with Crystal Reports.
Let's imagine we have a R/3 system running on a Oracle Database. It is possible to create a ADBC connection to the SAPR3 database of this system, and build an Universe using this connection?
I've already read that maybe cluster tables couldn't be read... but what happens if we build a view from this cluster table?
Thanks for your responses.

Hi All,
Looks like Cherry is on to something, but this is an additionally licensed product? It is released for 4.6 (DMS 2005 is supporting R/3 4.6C, 4.7/110, 4.7/200, and ERP04 (ECC5.0)) - see the FAQ link on the page Cherry offered.
I'm not sure what this costs - this is new information to me - thanks Cherry!.
ASRao, if you've only deleted the client dependent data you stated - master and transaction - you could also get away with a client export of PRD, but I'm not aware of a way to delimit the time frame with the given SAP CC profiles. This would be faster than a system refresh from PRD to QA, but you need to be sure that all you want to do is refresh the client dependent components.
Good luck.
Tim

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