how to controll user access in comercial deployment?

Hello,
We have used SSAS and SSRS to develop a BI reporting suite for our data
warehouse and would like to deploy this into our customer base, but at the
same time protect our investment.
How do we control or limit the number of users that can use our cubes and
reports? We would like to control user numbers by a licence arrangement -
either concurrent or named - but fear once a user has our developments
installed they only need to increase their MS licences and away they go...
Any help and advice appreciated.
StephenYou could do the following for named users.
1. Have your own routine that authorizes. Put the user names into a table.
Then somewhere else have the total number allowed encrypted.
2. In your reports (or even better in stored procedures) use the User!UserID
global parameter and verify the user. You could do this in a custom assembly
too. You could put a nag message on each report.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Stephen Lonsdale" <StephenLonsdale@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Hello,
> We have used SSAS and SSRS to develop a BI reporting suite for our data
> warehouse and would like to deploy this into our customer base, but at the
> same time protect our investment.
> How do we control or limit the number of users that can use our cubes and
> reports? We would like to control user numbers by a licence arrangement -
> either concurrent or named - but fear once a user has our developments
> installed they only need to increase their MS licences and away they go...
> Any help and advice appreciated.
> Stephen