Connecting to Business Objects and extracting data

[denzel]

Hello,

is there a way to connect to a "Business Objects" data storage in order
to retrieve OLAP data?

For Oracle, you have to use the Oracle OLAP java api, which enable you
to connect, read meta-data (hierarchies, etc.), perform complex SQL
request with "simple" java method calls, and convert the result table in
POJO (Plain Old Java Objects).

I would like to do the same for "Business Objects". But i can't find
anything on Google about extracting data, only importing into BO.

TIA

 

[Nigel Pendse]

That's because BusinessObjects is a reporting tool, not an OLAP
database. Apart from cached report contents, it doesn't store
information.