InfoProvider Types

InfoProviders can have widely differing characteristic values. Every InfoProvider provides data for a query however.

Most InfoPorviders are modelled in the BW system. Some basis objects can be used both on their own and in other InfoProviders.

• InfoObjects as InfoProviders

• InfoCubes that are:

  • Standard, with data perseistence in the BW system or in BWA

  • Standard, SAP HANA-optimized

  • Real-time capable

  • Semantically partitioned

• DataStore objects that are:

  • Standard

  • Write-optimized

  • DataStore objects for direct update

  • Semantically partitioned

These InfoProviders are loaded with data using staging.

There are also InfoProviders that are modeled in the BW system and are comprised of other InfoProviders:

• InfoSet

• MultiProvider

• Aggregation level

• HybridProvider, with the following types:

  • Based on a DataStore object

  • Based on direct access

• CompositeProvider

You can also make a BEX query - that was a defined on InfoProviders - available as an InfoProvider again.

• Query as InfoProvider

Some InfoProviders are modeled in the BW system but their data is usually not in the BW system:

• VirtualProviders that are:

  • DTP-based

  • With BAPI

  • With Function module

  • Based on an SAP HANA Model

Some InfoProviders, TransientProviders, are not modelled in the BW system. They are derived from another object instead:

• TransientProvider Derived from a Classic InfoSet

• TransientProviders Derived from an Analytic Index

• Creating TransientProviders on SAP HANA Models