Abstract: Methods and systems to reach through to business logic services are disclosed. An example method involves receiving a report request from a portal and building context information based on the request. Additionally, the example method includes generating context extensible markup language (XML) associated with the context information, assigning a context identifier to the context XML, and returning the context identifier to the portal for forwarding to the business intelligence application to initiate a service associated with the context information.

Abstract: Methods and systems to retrieve information from data sources are disclosed. An example method involves receiving a first criterion associated with a native data source and storing the first criterion in a first data structure in response to a user navigating from a native report corresponding to the native data source to a nonnative report corresponding to a nonnative data source. An identifier is then associated with the first data structure. The first criterion is then mapped to a second criterion associated with a nonnative data source, and information is retrieved from the nonnative data source based on the second criterion.