Multiprovider best practice for BOBJ Explorer

[jzman]

To all,

Some companies use only multiproviders (not infocubes) as the source for building infospaces in BOBJ Explorer. They will build a multiprovider with only 1 infocube and use it for BOBJ Explorer. They will not use infocubes when building infospaces in BOBJ Explorer.

Is this best practice...

All replies are appreciated.

Thanks,

JZMAN

[RavekiD]

It is best practice to use MP between your actual data layer and reporting layer.

Remember MultiProvider is simple a logical representation of the data, not physical. And its dimensions are simply groupings of fields, where cube level is something completely different.
As well as it is future-proven technique! What if in future there will be a need to connect one more cube or DSO?