title: Best method for pulling data out of SharePoint to use with a Business Intelligence application
body: <p>Asked this first on serverfault, and someone recommended that I ask here.</p>
  
  <p>I'm looking for advice from anyone out there who has experience integrating SharePoint with a business intelligence application like Cognos.</p>
  
  <p>Our BI team wants to be able to report on data stored in SharePoint. Their tool of choice is Cognos. What's the best way to get the data they're looking for OUT of SharePoint and into Cognos BI for analysis?</p>
  
  <p>To clarify I'm NOT looking for a way to display Cognos reports in SharePoint. We want to take the list data from SharePoint and use Cognos to report on it.</p>