Hi Amal,
now it is clear... find below some answers:
1. any certified connection to sap
A) You may need to check from IBM Cognos side and so you may not get an answer to this question in this community as all of members here are SAP Experts. You need to check if they provide (IBM) a native connection to SAP ERP or not.
But: You may use ODBC to connect to your SAP ERP system if you know the underlying database, and so the question now is what database used as a repository for SAP ERP. is it oracle, teradata, Maxdb...etc. you can establish and ODBC or direct connection to these RDBM from almost any reporting tool.
The advantage of this: very easy and quick.
The disadvantage: you need to understand the underlying model for SAP ERP.
2. id there any connection way to connect to sap data base?
A) if you are using SAP MaxDB then yes, you can use MaxDB studio (SAP RDBMS client) or you can use MaxDB command line interface. But you need first to make sure that this is the used database type. you may use oracle or other database as a repository for SAP ERP.
3. is SAP have any other tool for reporting ?
A) Yes, SAP Business Objects BI platform 4.0 is the latest SAP solution for reporting.
I hope that you find answers in my response ya Amal and wish you good luck in your project.
Taha M. Mahmoud, PMP, ITIL, TOGAF, CSM
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