Microsoft Acquisition of ProClarity

[kstickler]

Does anyone have any comments on the acquisition of ProClarity by Microsoft?

 

[MDXer]

got a link for this? I know proclarity has wanted this for over 5 years now they thought it was going to happen in 2001. MS definately has a need for a full fledged reporting, ad hoc query package for AS. If this is in fact the real deal I look forward to seeing what MS can do to improve what is currently proclarity and how they plan to market it.

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[kstickler]

It was on slashdot via

http://news.com.com/2110-1012_3-6057068.html?part=rss&tag=6057068&subj=news

 

[johnherman]

Here's TDWI's story

http://www.tdwi.org/News/display.aspx?ID=7902

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[MDXer]

Actually I found the press release on proclarity's site. Now I look forward to seeing how they integrate Proclarity and Reporting services as many BI implementations are a combination of static reports (Reporting Services) and ad hoc (Proclarity) Excel Pivot Table and OWC currently don't cut it for complex analysis and cube structures.

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- Daffy Duck

 

[Flybridge]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is OWC?


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[MDXer]

OWC = Office Web Components.

Specific portions of office applications have been leaned out and are available as I believe an OCX this allows people to access AS cubes across the web and still use excel pivot tables to work with the data.

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- Daffy Duck

 

[Flybridge]

Thanks.


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