Business Intelligence (Or lack of it)

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Odd one this.

We have a customer that we consume questionnaires for. They prepare the questionnaire and our systems read the results and store them to a file (plain text I think).

Now this customer wants a web based query facility. So the scenario is that they have a web based front end to prepare the query, they submit the query onto our machine and then get the results back on the originating PC.

Now I am aware that there are a plethora of tools that can present a HTML report but are there any that any of you are aware of that have a thin front as well?

I just think we should give them the data or prepare the reports up front but they dont fancy either of those solutions.

Odd on the whole...

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We were looking for an off the shelf affair.

The only proposal that I can come up with thats quick easy and cheap is to run something like MS Query through N-Fuse (Citrix web thing) on a Citrix server here.

They just want to query a file thats held here, no requirement for clever front end really more that they want latency over the reports rather a 'static' set.