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