"Min Logistikk" - Using SAS BI Web Services in a Service Oriented Architecture at Norway Post Delivering Information Securely to Customers on Extranet

This paper describes the systems architecture of one the reporting solutions that were developed through the program "IKT Plattform 2005-2006" at Norway Post. One important requirement for this solution was to deliver information securely from the internal data warehouse of Norway Post to business customers on extranet. Avenir AS got the assignment for the user interface using Microsoft .Net, while Know IT Information Management was responsible for delivering the report data using SAS9 tools. The final decision was made to implement the innovative and unconventional technology SAS BI Web Services for Java to deliver XMLA to the external Microsoft .Net application using a service oriented architecture. Ergo Group Systems Integration was responsible for the Web Access Control using eConnect/eTrust from Computer Associates.