RadarCube ASP.NET OLAP Chart for MSAS

This software review is about an ASP.NET and Silverlight OLAP control that adds visual analysis to your applications. With this feature, you can display your business data on the internet in charts and graphs rather than in numerical formats. This feature is 100% managed code and is authored entirely in C# 2.0. It gives users an opportunity to analyze their business data visually, spot new trends, and discover unknown problems in their data flow.

The tool offers several RIA advantages, such as overwhelming interactivity. With Rich Internet Applications technology, you can make your apps on the web as live as never before. The data source of this feature is flexible enough to take a cube from MS Analysis Services OLAP Server or a local file. You can also save your report and distribute it to another person by network or email.

This feature offers incredible data filtering capabilities, including hierarchy members and measure values. It also offers modifiers support, which enables you to show your data in different colors, shapes, and sizes, distinguishing them in a single graph. You can assign any hierarchy a specific shape selected from a wide range of options or use discrete gradients to set the ranges of values displayed in selected colors. Zooming is also available to take a deeper look at a particular data square by zooming the OLAP chart.

Look and feel options are available to set up the application with a standard color scheme such as MS Office 2003, Windows Vista, among others. Users can copy any data range in OLAP Chart and pass it to another application like Microsoft Office. Dockable panels also help users to organize aspects of analysis into their own working space.

Printing capabilities are also available, and reports can be exported to a wide range of formats, including PDF, XLS, CSV, JPG, etc. Calculated members are another feature that provides additional information to the hierarchy structure. This may be SubTotals, Intermediate Values, Expected Values, Moving Averages, and the like. Finally, users using this tool gain access to MS Analysis advantages like KPI (Key Performance Indicators), Time Intelligence, Actions, Translations, Drillthrough, Writeback.