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QUESTION POSED ON: 01 February 2006
Can you extract data from several data cubes in BW and merge them for a report -- or do you have to create a specific data cube for each report requested? What software is used to create the data cubes in BW?

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BW provides the necessary tools to create and load data to InfoProviders. BW data is stored in InfoProviders, which are InfoCubes, ODSs and master data objects. Multi-providers or InfoSets can be created to retrieve data from multiple InfoCubes or ODSs.

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