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The SAP Knowledge Provider (KPro) is a cross-application and media-neutral information technology infrastructure within the R/3 Basis System. The modular structure and openness on which KPro is based is reflected in its modular services and clearly defined interfaces. Its extensive flexibility means that KPro can be used to process the widest variety of information types within and relating to documents and document-like objects. For example, administration and index data, as well as pure content.

The SAP Data Provider (referred to in this documentation as the Data Provider) is a standarddata retrieval interface used by controls in the SAP GUI.The Data Provider:
Manages the data
Maps the data on to standard Windows data types and data objects
Controls data conversion

A SAP Container is a control that accommodates other controls, such as the SAP Tree Control, SAP Picture Control, SAP Textedit Control, SAP Splitter Control, and so on. It manages these controls logically in a collection, and provides a physical area in which they are displayed. All controls live in a container. Since containers are themselves controls, you can nest them. The container is the parent of the control within it.

This Guide helps developers use the SAP Business Intelligence Java Software Development Kit (BI Java SDK). Withthe BI Java SDK, you can build analytical applications that access, manipulate, and display both multidimensional(Online Analytical Processing, or OLAP) and tabular (relational) data. The target audience is Java developers withbusiness intelligence experience and needs.This chapter provides an overview of the BI Java SDK and the BI Java Connectors and introduces their foundation ofopen standards technologies.

SAP Business Information Warehouse Functions in Detail