The document discusses TIBCO Spotfire, an analytics platform. It shows how Spotfire connects various clients to data sources via servers. It provides visualizations, analytic engines, and automation services. Spotfire Application Data Services connects Spotfire to enterprise systems like SAP, Siebel, and Oracle by introspecting their data models and delivering the data using SQL. The rest of the document focuses on how Spotfire connects specifically to SAP Business Warehouse (BW) data, discussing the challenges of differing data structures and query languages between Spotfire and BW, and how Spotfire's adapter generates optimized queries and allows unified access to BW data in Spotfire.