This week I discovered yet another client for Analysis Services - Intelligencia. This isn't new product - they shipped their first version about a year ago, in August 2003, but this is first time I came across it. Unfortunatelly, although the news section claimed that all the problems with download area were solved, I couldn't find the download area, so I couldn't check it out myself (and see how it works with Yukon!). From the information on the Web site, it appears that the main focus of this application is to produce reports rather then being an analytic tool, and they are especially proud of the fine printing capabilities of the program. Not surprisingly, the main page links to the article in DMReview named “The future of BI - about the same as yesterday“ which makes a point that most BI users only want reports, preferebly in printed form :) Another interesting thing, is that from the description is sounds like fully managed code - if true, that would be first .NET Analysis Services client ! The screenshot looks pretty slick:
