The BI Data Analyst will easily allow you to connect to different data sources. For the purpose of discussing the usage of the BI Data Analyst, we will refer to a data source as the different structures or fields for which you will be pulling your data from (database tables, SQL queries, CSV, XML, and more).  Using the BI Analyst, you will be able to connect to multiple data sources to aggregate and transform your data for use with document production, dashboard generation, or even moving data to another location.

 

Figure 1:  The Design Surface displays 3 different data sources used:  database table, SQL, and XML.