nythird-partysolutionshelpusersbuildaqueryandexecuteittoseetheresults.Suchanapproachusessystemresourcesefficientlybutisn'tasinteractiveastheExcelandOWCdrag-and-dropinterfaces.Soalthoughthesesolutionsoffereduniqueadvantages,nonemettheexactrequirementsoftheproject.Whenourteamaddedcustomdevelopmentcoststotheoverallcostofthethird-partysoftware,wedecidedtolookelsewhere.2.3 essMultidimensionalDataThedevelopmentteammembersfinallywenttotheMicrosoftSQLServerResourceKitandfoundthesolutiontoourdilemma:theAnalysisServicesThinWebClientBrowser.(esstheThinWebClientontheresourcekitCD-ROM,seethereferenceinchapter39ofTheThinWebClientusesActiveServerPages(ASP)toconnecttotheAnalysisserver,convertsthemultidimensionaldatatoHTML,andpassesthedatatotheclient.Figure4showstheThinWebClientdisplayingasubsetofloandata.
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