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Report Portal compared to other products
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Report Portal is primarily designed to access the Microsoft Analysis Services.
Currently Microsoft Analysis Services has the
leading market share in the OLAP market.
Bellow is the Report Portal compared to other client applications that can access Microsoft Analysis Services:
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| Products |
Web Based |
Require Client Installation |
Data Mining |
MDX Support |
Source Code |
Interactive charts
| Report Publishing
| Action support
| Member Search
| Member properties
| Records paging
| Calculated members
| Percentages
| Conditional formatting
| Snapshot Capability
| Relational Report
| File upload |
MDX named sets |
OLAP Write-back |
Text comments |
| Report Portal |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Microsoft Excel |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
Microsoft Data Analyzer |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Microsoft
OWC |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Some (XP and up) |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes (with BI Portal) |
No |
No |
yes (XP and up) |
yes (XP and up) |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
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Microsoft Reporting Services |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Pro-Clarity |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Cognos - PowerPlay |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Brio
- Performance 8 |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
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No |
No
|
No
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No |
No |
| Business
Object - WebIntelligence |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Comshare-MPC |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
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No |
|
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|
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Outlooksoft
- EAP |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
|
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|
|
|
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No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Crystal
Analysis |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| ZAP.BI Suite |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Thin Slicer |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
Panarama NovaView |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
|
No |
Yes |
Yes |
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No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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