Client Application for SSAS

  • Hi guys,

    My company is on this Demensional Insight (analytics tool) bandwagon (I don't care for the product too much) and I'm trying my hardest to convince the powers that be that we should use SSAS (Especially since we're a full blow Microsoft shop and it looks like we pretty much have the tool already sitting idle).

    Anyways, dementional Insight has a front end to (called Diver) in which management and power users use to get the information they are looking for (instead of going to IT and requesting it)

    I'm pretty new to SSAS (started reading an SSAS book recently) and could be getting a little a head of myself, but does SSAS have a client side front end tool built in? Or is SSAS pretty much all backend stuff and we'd go purchase a client side tool?

    I'm using versions 2005/2008

    Thanks,

    Strick

  • Strick,

    stricknyn (9/30/2009)


    [snip] does SSAS have a client side front end tool built in? Or is SSAS pretty much all backend stuff and we'd go purchase a client side tool?

    Business Intelligence Development Studio has a Cube browser but cannot be used as a real client tool. You could however connect with Excel to Analysis Services. There's a long list of other OLAP clients listed on http://www.ssas-info.com/analysis-services-client-tools-frontend but I recommend Datawarehouse Explorer. 🙂

    Please read Chris Webb's review on Datawarehouse Explorer here.

    Dirk

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