Hi,
After spending a lot of time on OWC, I found that it cannot be used on the
internet with any security. The only way it will work is to put the AS on
the internet (Ie have a public IP address) and allow anonymous access in
your IIS. This will allow anyone on the internet to access the cube, which
cannot be considered.
Therefore can I fairly say that the OWC in an intranet tools only? Has
anyone actually DONE it? Please don't put out a link to the MS white paper,
it might not be for OWC.
Now I am looking for alternatives. The goal is to put the AS on a private
network, having a web server to talk to it. The client side will need basic
drill and drag functions as well as some filtering. I have tried the Thin
Client, it works, but not very satisfactory. It was mentioned that Crystal
Enterprise can do the job. Has anyone used this. Any other recommendations?

Eugene

"Eugene" <eugene.chen (AT) iwl (DOT) com.au> wrote

Yes, Crystal Analysis Professional has a thin Web client for Analysis
Services, suitable for Internet deployment, as do ProClarity, Panorama
NovaView and BusinessObjects WebIntelligence. Temtec Executive Viewer also
has a very nice Web client, but it uses ActiveX, which some people would
prefer not to use over the Internet. Of these, Panorama probably delivers
the best combination of performance and functionality in thin client mode
(DHTML or small Java applets).

Nigel Pendse
OLAP Solutions
http://www.olapreport.com

Eugene,

If you would liek to have a real great tool working over internet with
lot of features and great performance I would recomend Panorama
NovaView.

You can visit our website and go to one of our references with a live
BI/OLAP production internet portal website based and see the features
and performance by yourself.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Marco

"Eugene" <eugene.chen (AT) iwl (DOT) com.au> wrote

"Eugene" <eugene.chen (AT) iwl (DOT) com.au> wrote


Eugene --

I have used ProClarity Analytics Server (Web Server) thin client
approach very successfully. I do not disagree with Nigel at all about
Panorama's web server, however, when you create briefing books with
the desktop client that get published to the web server, I personally
believe that ProClarity Professional, as a desktop dev tool, is far
superior to Panorama's desktop NovaView, in the current instance of
both products.

Also, there is a new web server product coming out called I think
Univiz from Unifact.

Depending on your budget, if it is small, you could look at options
like HTML page publication from any good MSAS Front End - ProClarity,
Panorama, or maybe something like Intellibrowser from Hungry Dog
Software.

Pete

Pete Hohenhaus
Woodinville, WA, East Side Seattle, USA
cam_pete (AT) hotmail (DOT) com
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I use ProClarity (desktop and PAS) it's not bad. I like the desktop client
and the web is ok.
High end ProClarity and Panorama (30K+) seem to be the favorites. Business
Objects seems
to be getting into a better position to be a good OLAP player (since they
bought Crystal and their
dashboard product looks good on the web site).

Low end either use one of the two free thin clients, snowflake.net (1K),
or univiz is .net rich client (but kinda cool around 20K). I think ChartFx
has
a OLAP extention, maybe some others out there?

HTH,
Mark



"Pete Hohenhaus" <cam_pete (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Microsoft has just posted a ASP.NET Olap Web Control onto their MSDN site,
following is the link.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...793-B3C6-4ED5-
ACB3-820D0E832151&displaylang=en



"Mark Andrews" <mandrews (AT) rptsoftware (DOT) com> wrote

Mark,
Thanks, very helpfull. I am thinking of trying several of them. Already
requested for trial of the ProClairity and NanaView, Any idea where to find
snowflake? Our platform is not .net so I presume I can't try the ChartFX and
Univiz?


Eugene
"Mark Andrews" <mandrews (AT) rptsoftware (DOT) com> wrote

http://www.xmlabrowser.com/
is a good place to start it has lots of links. Snowflake is .NET as well
(server only). Univix requires clients to have .NET.

Mark


"Eugene" <eugene.chen (AT) iwl (DOT) com.au> wrote

Currently managing an implementation of CE and AS2K. The
the DHTML viewer for Crystal Analysis wass use with sucess
and was available with Domain Security over the internet.
Please note, neither CE or AS2K were public ip's only the
Web Server used to connnect.

Also note, the user community was migrated to the Active X
viewer as the user basis is in the Corporate Office.

BO, ProClarity, Panorama... tend to rely on fat client to create
reports and are quite pricey. BO for example still relies on a query
panel to pre-define queries and run them. ZAP.BI from
zaptechnology.com is a Zero footprint front-end based on XMLA and .NET
that provides Ad hoc OLAP query and Managed reporting with dynamic PDF
reports and drill back. They're right between the Tier 1 vendors and
the cheap products and will soon have KPIs and a version for MS
Reporting Services! They're Australian but have started selling in US
& UK to Virgin Atlantic in an extranet environment for their travel
agents.

Cheers, Jean-Michel.

"Mark Andrews" <NOSPAMmandrews (AT) rptsoftware (DOT) com> wrote