Palo 2.5 price and limitations

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Sava

Professional

Posts: 22

Date of registration: Dec 24th 2008

Tuesday, June 30th 2009, 4:15pm

Palo 2.5 price and limitations

Hi.

I am using Palo 2.5 Olap server for about 6 months and we develped a lot of different cubes in our company, we also use enterprise rules and nested structures in Palo dimensions. We are thinking to buy Palo BI software but we need only Palo 2.5 Olap server for now .My question is how much is that going to cost us. We have about 20 users for now and about 10 cubes that we are using almost every day. Palo Olap server is installed on one computer and users access that computer for data via windows Palo client application.

Another question is is there any limitations on Palo Olap server 2.5.By limitations I mean number of users, number of rows in cubes or something else. I ask this because lately we have problems with Palo Olap server. By problems I mean that in some moments server blocks the processor on 100% and start to load about 250-500 MB of memory or even more. In that case users get white screen or "not responding" message in excel. This happens when more than one user open some complex report or just do the paste view with many rows and columns. I solve this problem by restarting the Palo Olap server or by restarting the computer, but that is not good.

Best regards Sava.

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axi

Sage

Posts: 661

Date of registration: Mar 5th 2009

Location: Germany / Bargteheide

Occupation: BI

Tuesday, June 30th 2009, 4:58pm

you should move to palo 3.0 it performs better

palo server is free and even open source

you can buy support (hotline) service from Jedox or one of their resellers/partners

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Sava

Professional

Posts: 22

Date of registration: Dec 24th 2008

Wednesday, July 1st 2009, 9:21am

Hi.

You want to say that i don't need anything at all for just olap server 3.0?It is totaly free.I know that it is open source but I don't have time to work on their code.Is there any link that I can download Palo 3.0 setup.exe for windows?Or i need to wait for it on Jedox site?

Best regards Sava.

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realquo

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Posts: 255

Date of registration: Mar 11th 2009

Location: Italy

Occupation: BI Consultant

Wednesday, July 1st 2009, 10:22am

Hi Sava,

Palo 3 is free as long as you don't need Jedox hotline support and you don't need additional components (Supervision Server, ODBO drivers, etc).

If you just need the olap server and the Excel Client you can download the setup here (from Jedox site): http://www.jedox.com/en/products/palo_ol…wnloadform.html

The Community Edition (that also includes ETL Server and Worksheet server) is free (and open source) too, but you will need to compile it by yourself: you can find it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/palo

For a more comprehensive description of the offering, you may find useful to read http://www.jedox.com/community/palo-foru…p?threadid=1671

Hope this helps, kind regards,

RQ

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Sava

Professional

Posts: 22

Date of registration: Dec 24th 2008

Wednesday, July 1st 2009, 10:42am

Hi.

Thank you for reply.Some of this informations i already know and some of them i didn't know.I still don't know is there any limitations in 3.0 or 2.5version.By limitations i think the number of processors that palo server 3.0 can use and amount of memory,number of users,number of value rows in cubes,number of cubes...

Best regards Sava.

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realquo

Sage

Posts: 255

Date of registration: Mar 11th 2009

Location: Italy

Occupation: BI Consultant

Wednesday, July 1st 2009, 10:58am

Hi,

I know about a couple of limitation of the free 3 version:
- no multicore support (only one processor core is used)
- it should work on 64 bit processors but without taking benefit of the x64 architecture with respect to a 32 bit proc
If I'm not wrong, this limitation should not exist in the Enterprise version.

I'm not aware of any limitation in terms of db dimension, number of users/cubes, etc.

Regards,

RQ