As MS Office Web components e a sua adequação ao desenvolvimento de aplicações Cliente OLAP

Abstract

This paper analyzes the characteristics, functionalities, and potentialities of the MS Office Web Components, with special emphasis to their adequacy for thedevelopment of Web based Business Intelligence solutions. All the Office Web Component’s Categories are conveniently explored, with emphasis on these ones that have a major interest for the development of OLAP Client Applications: the PivotTable Component and the Chart Component. The use of the Office Web Components on the Server Side, an ability that becomes the Office Web Components on a very useful tool for the development of Thin-Client OLAP Applications, is also analyzed in this paper. This paper covers neither the Object Model nor the Programming Interface of the Office Web Components COM/ActiveX Controls, but you can find on it a lot ofreferences to bibliographic resources that cover these subjects thoroughly. The lack of knowledge about the Licensing Requirements and Terms of Use of the Office Web Components is often responsible for some mistakes, so this paper analyze this subject with some detail.