RE: DSS tools?

<vendor hat on>  

1.To perform what you mention

    you have to query Oracle
    you have to query SQL Server
and then joint the two result set and then use any statiscal function to have average, top5, ...  

2.Multiple datasources can be connected at a time  

3. Brio Intelligence server is a Multitiers/multithreaded product where you can mixed the platform
( Windows / Unix to take the better avantage of each one)
This explain why they have reference with 1000s of web users in production since 1999.  

</vendor hat on>  

 -----Original Message-----
Sent: woensdag 19 februari 2003 13:49
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

A customer of mine has recently decided to purchase BRIO but the process of checking references on the product has been....(ahem!)....pretty discouraging. Specifically, they have gathered the following comments:  

1. There are no aggregate functions available on the BRIO client. For example, if we pull some product pricing from Oracle and some from SQL Server, we will not be able to calculate an average price on the client
   (local PC) where we build the report.
   
2. Only one data source can be connected at a time. This forces a user to save result sets from different cubes locally first and then compare them also locally.
3. On Demand server (web-based middle-tier) is single-threaded; only one client at a time is working. My guess is that this is changed in v8, but it would be nice to get a confirmation.

Has anyone had experience with this? What are your experiences?  

Also, what other DSS tools are you using and how do you like them?  

Thanks in advance...

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