Hi Sterling,

We use the portal for letting endusers get access to stored processes over the web. You could also just use the stored process web application but then you would have to develop your own solution for navigation.

You could certainly develop your own proc summary code, a plug-in for eg to display the data and a web client to navigate the results on the web. But you also might not want to have to do all that work, so you might choose the sas olap solution.

It depends of course on what your requirements are.

Allen

Am 13.01.2011 um 01:06 schrieb Sterling Paramore <gnilrets@GMAIL.COM>:

> Dear SAS-L, > > My organization is considering upgrading our BI Server to Enterprise BI. > We've had BI Server for over 2 years and have not made any use of > Information Maps or Web Reports Studio. The most highly touted features of > Enterprise BI I've gathered are OLAP cubes (why not just use PROC SUMMARY?), > dashboard widgets (they don't impress me much), and the "Portal" (which > appears to be driven by Information Maps/OLAP cubes which, again, we've not > made much use of). Frankly, it doesn't seem to be worth it for us. Am I > missing something? Has anyone on the L had great success with Enterprise BI > server? > > Thanks, > Sterling