Thanks for your response. My company, like you, has an unwritten rule of using native tools until a better one is found but we always look at what's available to...

Tab, can you throw a few cube-browser namers my way? I am new to OLAP and am not familiar with all the tools.

Jay, views is the way we were thinking...

Kenneth,

I may have under-represented my users abilities. They are very sophisticated in their knowledge of their data and how to use it, these are mostly statistician types, and they can express...

Aaron and CK,

Thanks for your responses.

CK that is quite an interesting solution. I am still scratching my head trying to understand it but I love its simplicity.