SAP Business Intelligence Quick Start Guide
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Information Design Tool

The IDT is a tool that's used to build the Universe of fields that are used by end users to build reports.

These are the features of IDT:

  • A single development environment for building Universes against relational, dimensional, and multi-source data sources
  • Clear separation between the data foundation and the business layer
  • Share the work with a team of designers
  • Manage security when you make new interfaces 
  • Preview data results as you develop you project

There are many underlying sources of data that can be accessed through a Universe. They include the following:

  • SAP BW
  • Microsoft Structured Query Language (SQL) server
  • Oracle
  • IBM DB2
  • IBM Netezza
  • SAP IQ
  • Teradata