Learn how to use the SAS/ACCESS interface to SAP BW to deliver valuable insights that will vastly improve your business decision-making capabilities Find all the information you need in this user's guide about how to extract and browse InfoCube and ODS object metadata from the SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW), import InfoCube and ODS data into SAS, export OLAP metadata about an SAP BW InfoCube to SAS/EIS, and retrieve SAP BW data both interactively and in batch mode. This guide also provides glossary definitions and tutorial instruction for novice users of the SAS/ACCESS Interface to SAP BW. After you have mastered the tutorial, you can continue to use the guide for reference. This title is also available online. This title is intended for applications programmers and other users who are comfortable with their own operating environment and are reasonably familiar with either SAS or SAP BW. It is assumed that users are completely unfamiliar with using both systems together. Supports releases 9.1 and higher of SAS software.