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> I've been given a project to find a way to make data
> easily available to end
> users, preferably via a thin client (read that as browser
> based). We're looking
> at Discoverer 3000 and 9iAS, but the boss wants to know what
> other options are
> out there. The general idea would be to have a client/server
> based tool that we
> could deploy to the power users (of which we have only a few). These
> individuals are NOT programmers nor in the IS group, but they
> know the data. We
> want them to create the queries/reports (with graphics
> included which the
> Discoverer viewer does not do) and then publish them via the
> database. This is
> a lot of what Discoverer does, but are there other tools out
> there that do the
> same? Any recommendations???
Would Web Intelligence from Business Objects suit your needs?
http://www.businessobjects.com/products/webintelligence.htm
I personally haven't used it but I talked to a DBA at a user group meeting who said it was great.
