• SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 Support
  1. Measure Groups
  2. Measure Display Folders
  3. Dimension Display Folders
  4. Drillthrough Actions / Advances Drillthrough Dialog
  5. SSAS 2005 KPI Support
  6. Perspective views
• OLAP Report
  1. Advanced Charting: over 30 chart types, printing, new options to control chart including: legend, margin, position
  2. Improved Performance
  3. Server side Formatting
  4. Calendar Picker for a dimensional filter
  5. Simplified Field List: checkboxes for measures, hierarchies and levels
  6. Ability to select measures on rows
  7. Ability to filter by measures
  8. Calculated Measure Info option exposes measure description or formula
  9. The Multi-Select button allows selecting more than one member at once
  10. GIS Chart - Shape File converter: ability to choose a Map Projection
  11. Ability to have a custom MDX to be preserved when a filter is changed
  12. Undo and Re-do toolbar menu buttons for the Drilldown mode
• New Dashboard report
  1. Web based WYSIWYG drag-and-drop designer
  2. Grouping reports by vertically or horizontally
  3. Multiple tabs
  4. Ability to have one or many filters for multiple reports
  5. Ability to define and apply different style themes
• OWC Report
  1. Automatic PTS 2005 detection and installation
  2. Cell Comments
  3. Relational connection supports
  4. Ability to Export to HTML and GIF
  5. Printing support
• Crystal Report
  1. Support for Crystal 8.0 and Up
  2. Enhanced look and feel
• New ROLAP Report
  1. Uses SQL OLAP functions (like: WITH ROLLUP) instead of MDX
  2. Supports SQL Server, Access, MySql, IBM-DB2, Oracle
  3. Allows designing a cube online
  4. Can consume aggregation data that resides in the source system reducing the cube processing time
  5. Provides better performance for viewing detailed data
• SQL Report
  1. Improved SQL Report Designer
  2. Supports SQL Server, Access, MySql, IBM-DB2, Oracle
• Other Features
  1. Ability to disable some report types
  2. Ability to specify friendly dimension names
  3. Ability to Export Reports/Users/Roles
  4. Enhanced Report Schema Editor
  5. Enhanced Report Tree: Context menu for managing reports and folders
  6. Private folder for each user
  7. Ability to define and use Email templates for sending emails
  8. Web folder support for Hyperlink Report
  9. Ability for define and apply the default filter values to any report based on role or user settings
  10. Enhanced Connection, User and Role admin pages

Report Portal URL Integration SDK is released. The SDK includes source code for a sample ASP.NET application that integrates with ReportPortal. The sample demonstrates how to securely integrate an external web application.

Report Portal MAP SDK Version 2.0 is released. The new features include:

• Installation Program
• Native ESRI SHP file support
• Map File (XML) editor allows changing information for each polygon entity
• Options dialog allows changing line color, width, Highlight color and opacity for template and files
• Ability to generate map files based on polygon based image maps.
• Image map can be located in a web page or a local file.

Tampa, FL - December 27, 2005 – Version 2.1 of ReportPortal is released. It is now compatible with SQL Server 2000 and 2005. The new features include:

• OLAP Report:
  1. Support for asymmetrical MDX in Expand Mode
  2. Dimensional Search - ability to select multiple members
  3. Ability to hide non-empty items for the slicer. This feature makes slicers to be dependent on one another
  4. Enhanced performance
  5. KPI Wizard
  6. Additional Chart types: Column-Line Combination Chart, Radar Chart
  7. Frozen columns
  8. New NonEmpty Crossjoin Option
  9. Drill-down history is saved with the report
  10. Enhanced Zooming capability
• OWC Report:
  1. Auto OWC and PTS detection and installation
  2. Write Back support
  3. Ability to add a description
  4. Enhanced member search
• KPI Report:
  1. New Look and Feel
  2. Show Units (%, kilos, liters, pounds) next to the KPI value
  3. Ability to add a description
  4. Refresh rate for real time reports
  5. Use of Rows and columns instead of cell ordinal
  6. Five more icons in addition to smiley face
• Easier way to customize text via the Localize "Show Phrase Id" feature
• Uniqueness validation for report and user names
• Support for multiple XMLA connections and connection security
• NT User id and password for Roles
• Pie-Chart and Bar-Chart tree enhancements:
  1. Ability to add a free floating label
  2. Dimensional Slicers
• Data mining: Pie-Chart Tree for visualizing the Microsoft Decision Tree and Clustering models
• New Report Type: Bar Chart Tree for OLAP. Unlike pie tree, report supports multiple measures and negative numbers.
• New Report Type: TreeMap OLAP report
• Context sensitive help

Tampa, FL - October 28, 2005 – ReportPortal 2.0 is now compatible with SQL Server 2005. The application still supports SQL Server 2000

Tampa, FL - January 31, 2005 – Version 2.0 of ReportPortal is now released. The new features include:

• Consolidated installation process
• .NET support
• PieChart Tree Report - a new OLAP visualization tool
• Interactive Geo Map Charts
  1. Over 33,000 new maps
  2. Ability to drilldown to the US zip code level
  3. MAP SDK allows easy conversion and creation of new map chart

Tampa, FL - October 31, 2004 – Version 1.5 of ReportPortal, the leading XMLA client application, is now released. The new features include:

• Greatly improved look and feel
• OLAP reports: Ability to drag and drop dimensions and levels on top of the data grid.
• OLAP reports: Improved Charting based on Macromedia Flash
• OLAP reports: Ability to add a custom Geo Chart
• OLAP reports: Advanced properties support for OLAP reports
• OLAP reports: Improved performance
• OWC reports: Administrator can now specify the OWC version (2000,XP,2003) fore application or for a user. User can specify his or her OWC version.
• Microsoft Reporting Services reports: ability to design reports online
• Enhanced paging for OLAP and SQL reports
• Ability for an Administrator to apply different Application styles
• Ability to bypass the login screen for authorized Windows authenticated users
• Ability to create an SQL Report based on MS Access, Oracle, etc.

Tampa, FL - June 21, 2004 – Version 1.4 of ReportPortal, the leading XMLA client application, is now released. This anouncment is also published in September 2004 issue of SQL Server Magazine. This version is compatible with Microsoft XMLA 1.1 SDK. The new features include:

• Multi-language Support
• Ability to filter rows and columns with a conditional statement
• New Geo charts: World Map and USA map
• Custom Zoom Option
• New OLAP report options:
  1. Ability to hide empty Slicer members
  2. Ability to show/hide Field List in the View Mode
  3. Ability to show/hide Drop Area in the View Mode
  4. Ability to hide toolbar in the View Mode
• Integration with Microsoft Reporting Services:
  1. Ability to view RPT report via URL and SOAP API
  2. Ability to publish an RPT file

Tampa, FL - April 12, 2004 – Version 1.3 of ReportPortal, the leading XMLA client application, is now released. The Version is compatible with Microsoft XMLA 1.0 SDK. The new features include:

1. New clickable charts: Cross-Measure Bubble chart, Scatter chart, Stocked Bar chart, Horizontal Bar chart
2. Print and Zoom capability
3. Sorting by Clicking on a Column Header
4. Ability to auto sum, average, min or max
5. Ability so save and reuse MDX named sets between OLAP reports
6. OLAP Write-back capability
7. Long report description
8. Ability to attach text comment to a cell
9. Crystal Reports 8.0 support
10. Key Performance Indicators (KPI) support
11. Ability to add a secure hyperlink
12. Report Usage Log and Reporting
13. Ability to assign Report Writers to designated folders
14. Ability to approve a report by one or many people before it can be published

Tampa, FL - December 30, 2003 – Version 1.2 of ReportPortal, the leading XMLA client application, is now released. The Version is compatible with Microsoft XMLA 1.0 SDK. The new features include:

1. Drilldown mode (like in Excel) in which allows expanding items on a grid to display more detail about them while maintaining the current display of other items.
2. Ability to show multiple synchronized reports on single page
3. Ability to set the maximum time in seconds a query is allowed to execute
4. Level Depth Color Coding
5. Filter show member path on mouse over
6. Folder Level Security
7. Ability to change existing calculated fields
8. Ability to change existing conditional formatting

Tampa, FL - December 26, 2003 – We are happy to announce that XMLA Consulting has become a member of the XMLA council. For more information on the XMLA council please go to http://www.xmla.org.

Tampa, FL - April 12, 2004 – Version 1.1 of ReportPortal, the leading XMLA client application, is now released. The Version is compatible with Microsoft XMLA 1.0 SDK. The new features include:

• OLAP Reports:
  1. Slicing data with filters
  2. Dimension member search
  3. Mdx support
  4. Drill down by clicking on a row or column
  5. Interactive charts
  6. Printing capability
  7. Export to Excel
  8. Emailing a report
  9. Action support
  10. Member properties support
  11. Drillthrough to detail
  12. Records paging
  13. Cancel query execution
  14. Ability to show only top 10, 20, 50 records
  15. Sorting
  16. Ability to add a calculated members
  17. Ability to add percentages
  18. Conditional formatting
  19. Report security
  20. Snapshot creation
•  MS Office 2000 OWC (Office Web Components) reports
  1. Report creation
  2. Dimension member search
  3. Report saving
  4. Charts support
  5. Action support
  6. Member properties support
  7. Drillthrough to detail
  8. Snapshot creation
  9. Sql report
• SQL Report Creation
  1. Dynamic (Textbox, Dropdown and Checkbox) filters
  2. SQL support
  3. SQL tutorial
  4. Sorting
  5. Records paging
  6. Printing capability
  7. Export to Excel
  8. Emailing a report
  9. Snapshot creation
• Data mining report creation
• File upload support

Tampa, FL - August 15, 2003 – Version 1.0 of XMLA Browser is released. The Version is compatible with Microsoft XMLA 1.0 SDK.

XMLA Browser 1.0 requires no client side software other the Internet Explorer 5 or higher. The application allows building dynamic olap reports and saving them. It also allows browsing Data Mining Models.