Universe Designer is a graphical design tool used to create the rich “semantic layer” (metadata) that makes SAP Business Objects products intuitive for non-technical users. It’s a graphical abstraction of the dimensional models that exist in your data warehouse. It auto-generates the Structured Query Language that interrogates the database tables so that business users do not need to understand this language or even know that it exists.
When the SAP BusinessObjects SAP Integration Kit is installed you can also create a universe based on your SAP Business Information Warehouse data using Universe Designer. This XML based universe will use the MDX language. You can combine the SAP data with your relational data (e.g. Teradata) by synchronisation within Web Intelligence.