Viewing OLAP Cubes outside of the Web

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Enterprise Guide has a wonderful OLAP Viewer if you don't/can't use the web stuff. I went to the SAS Course 'Creating and Exploiting OLAP Using the SAS System' which has in the Course Notes some great steps on using EG for OLAP Viewing. Basically, the 'Tasks by Category' menu has an item called 'Open OLAP Cube' which connects to your OLAP Server & allows you to view/analyze your OLAP Cube.

The other thing you can do is download a SAS .dll file for Microsoft Excel & open OLAP Cubes in a Pivot Table. This is almost better (shame on me) than the EG Viewer. I have less problems filtering items.
http://www.sas.com/apps/demosdownloads/inttechclientwn_PROD_9.1_sysdep.jsp?packageID=000301
(Thanks go to Bob W. from Australia for this topic idea!)

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Angela Hall

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Angela offers tips on using the SAS Business Intelligence solutions. She manages a team of SAS Fraud Framework implementers within the SAS Solutions On-Demand organization. Angela also has co-written two books, 'Building BI using SAS, Content Development Examples' & 'The 50 Keys to Learning SAS Stored Processes'.

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