Hi All,

We are starting on a tool called Proclarity, which is used on top of
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. Having this as the basic idea, I’m
not clear on some information as listed below: Any clarification would be
very helpful.

1 Having SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Service) available to perform
reports, what is Proclarity for Reporting Services. What it does by
integrating with SSRS and its advantages. How is it different from Proclarity
Web/Desktop professional.

2 Having Business Scorecard manager from Microsoft, what is the
purpose of Proclarity KPI Designer, its advantages/disadvantages over BSM?
Still proclarity has one more add-on Proclarity for BSM (not sure why we need
this)

3 Proclarity Selector – Purpose of this tool?

4. Why is that Proclarity Dashboard server? We can create a view of
dashboard using Sharepoint. Not sure about the advantage of this.

Regards, Kart

I can answer Q4 as we just implemented it. It runs as a separate IIS
service and it's similar to webparts in SharePoint. It's another way to
view ProClarity Reports in a clean dashboard-like look and feel without
the ad-hoc controls that you would normally see on the regular reports
served in PAS (ProClarity Analytics Server). I use it to show a
highly-summarized view and it has the capability to "point" to the
underlying ad-hoc report if further analysis is needed. Multiple tabs
can be created, as well as custom-sized templates. It's relatively easy
to convert regular reports to dashboard parts using the Dashboard
Studio. It's all web-based and point-click. There is a level of
complexity in setting up LDAP as it uses an LDAP interface to Active
Directory if you want NT authentication, although it supports
forms-based auth. I think you'll have to really understand what's good
to render as dashboards as this functionality tends to be misused. Read
some of Stephen Few's articles on this tpoic.

Hope this helps.

On Nov 16, 10:32 pm, kart <k... (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote: