Business Views is a multi-tier system that enables companies to build comprehensive and specific Business Views objects that help report designers and end users access the information they require.
Administrators use the Business View Manager—a thick-client designer, which runs as a Microsoft Windows application. This designer provides a wide range of capabilities for creating Data Connections, Dynamic Data Connections, Data Foundations, Business Elements, and Business Views. The Business View Manager allows you to design relational views of information. This designer also allows you to set detailed column and row-level security for various objects in a report.