Re: [Firebird-odbc-devel] OLAP-Navigator (was: odbc driver question)

[Thomas S. <ts...@ib...>]

Nikolay,

> Jorge was not exactly precise. :-)
> 
> There is no specific long-term ODBC development budget at Red Soft.
> 
> 1) So on one side, ODBC driver development is currently driven by client 
> requests. This is when I can become heavily involved.
> About half of ODBC bug fixes in builds since 145 are done because 
> BroadView Software asked them done.
> 
> So in my Open Source life right now I spend more time with the project 
> which adds OLAP extensions and GUI to Firebird databases:
> http://olap-navigator.sourceforge.net/

 From previous email conversation you might know that I'm building a 
data warehousing system with Mondrian and Firebird. The lack of a 
capable and modern looking OLAP client for Mondrian is IMHO one major 
drawback when comparing an Open Source OLAP solution with e.g. the 
Microsoft world (Analysis Services, ...).

I've tried the JPivot based solution included in Mondrian. Well, a first 
start and possibly a solution for prototypical implementations for 
ad-hoc queries, but compared to commercial products it looks plain oldish.

I've also tried the freely available JPalo 2.0 OLAP client which can 
interact with a XML/A server. It looks much more modern and a first try 
was encouraging with less data volume, but it went out to be VERY slow 
when working with larger data volumes. The web-based JPivot application 
was much more responsive in that case.

So I have downloaded your OLAP navigator. I've deployed the .war file on 
my Apache Tomcat web server, but where to start now to get connected to 
my Mondrian cube?

Do you know any other OLAP client with support for Mondrian? It does not 
need to be a web-based application. The Pentaho Spreadsheet Services 
might be a solution for an integration into Excel, but AFAIK it's rather 
expensive due to the mandatory Pentaho subscription. Another one I came 
across is IntraSight (http://www.activeinterface.com/intrasight.html). 
Ever tried that?


Thanks.


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