MS SQL Server OLAP - Survey: Your 3rd party BI client to work with SQL server 2005

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Survey: Your 3rd party BI client to work with SQL server 2005

Dino Hsu

2006-03-31, 3:31 am

Dear all,

Low price is definitely the advantage of SQL server 2005 BI, and that's
one of the reasons why my company's interested in Microsoft's BI
solution. However, if we want to implement BI with SS2005 NOW, we have
to include a "cheap" and "good" BI client product. The reason is
simple: if the 3rd-part BI client is as expensive as the big names like
the two P's, the low price advantage of SS2005 is gone. Of course, if
you implement it next year, you can wait for Excel 12 (2007) to be the
BI client.

There are so many 3rd-party BI clients out there. Therefore, I would
like take a survey here: what's BI client do you use and why? do you
implement SS2005 this year or next year? SQL server 2000 BI are also
welcome. Thanks in advance.

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