Interlektual property

Hello all,

How do I protect my Interlektual property for a BI solution ( analysis services) ?

I do not want others to be able to view and change my coding ?

Thanks heaps for any advise.

To deny others to see definition of your database, you should only grant Read rights to your users.
Others can copy your design if given Admin rights to your database or ReadDefinition rights.

Create a role in your database and grant Read permissions to your users.

Edward Melomed.
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I do not have access to the database but only the design of the BI solution.

It means the customer will own the database and I will deliver the BI solution.

How do I protect the solution not to be copied by someone else ?

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Think of BI solution as the source code for you application. The same way if you giving out application source code, same BI Solution will be open for anyone to copy your design.

Giving out BI solution is not the way to protect your intellectual property. The minute customer owns a database customer can see the metadata and the logic implemented by it.

Edward Melomed.
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Interlektual property

Hello all,

How do I protect my Interlektual property for a BI solution ( analysis services) ?

I do not want others to be able to view and change my coding ?

Thanks heaps for any advise.

To deny others to see definition of your database, you should only grant Read rights to your users.
Others can copy your design if given Admin rights to your database or ReadDefinition rights.

Create a role in your database and grant Read permissions to your users.

Edward Melomed.
--
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

|||

I do not have access to the database but only the design of the BI solution.

It means the customer will own the database and I will deliver the BI solution.

How do I protect the solution not to be copied by someone else ?

|||

Think of BI solution as the source code for you application. The same way if you giving out application source code, same BI Solution will be open for anyone to copy your design.

Giving out BI solution is not the way to protect your intellectual property. The minute customer owns a database customer can see the metadata and the logic implemented by it.

Edward Melomed.
--
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

InteractiveSize not behaving

Hello,

I'm having an issue where a report's Interactive Size property is not obeying what I tell it. My report has the standard portrait settings (8.5x11 for PageSize and InteractiveSize). However, when I render the report in Visual Studio, the pages' lengths are obviously much taller than 11 inches. Therefore, the number of pages in the viewer are much less then when I actually print the report.

As an aside, if I set my InteractiveSize's height component to 7 inches, only then is the viewer close to the printed output. I have no idea where the 4 inches is going.

Also, I have tried all kinds of iterations of substracting margins from my height and it brings me no where close to where it should be.

Any ideas?

Any ideas? I gotta believe someone else has had this issue.. :)

InteractiveSize not behaving

Hello,

I'm having an issue where a report's Interactive Size property is not obeying what I tell it. My report has the standard portrait settings (8.5x11 for PageSize and InteractiveSize). However, when I render the report in Visual Studio, the pages' lengths are obviously much taller than 11 inches. Therefore, the number of pages in the viewer are much less then when I actually print the report.

As an aside, if I set my InteractiveSize's height component to 7 inches, only then is the viewer close to the printed output. I have no idea where the 4 inches is going.

Also, I have tried all kinds of iterations of substracting margins from my height and it brings me no where close to where it should be.

Any ideas?

Any ideas? I gotta believe someone else has had this issue.. :)

Intellectual Property question

I have been asked to prepare a feasibility study for an upgrade to a
VB app that uses a SQL server db.

The application is thin client, with about 100 sites connecting via
terminal services. 99% of the processing and business logic is done
using stored procedures.

The application is a highly configured version of an off-the-shelf
product.

The company would like me to quote for redesigning the front end, but
for this to interface to the existing db structure. However, the
original developer regards the database structure, particularly the
stored procedures, as her intellectual property.

Anyone have any idea how I (and the company who have asked me to do
the work) stand legally? Obviously I don't want to get lawyers
involved unless absolutely necessary (for example, if we clearly don't
have a leg to stand on, then there's no point in paying some shyster
300 an hour to tell me what I already know.)

TIA

EdwardIANAL.

What does the contract with the original developer say? Usually you would
expect a software development contract to spell out the IP rights. In my
experience, in the UK, the rights are typically left with the company
developing the software unless the client company requires otherwise.

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> IANAL.
> What does the contract with the original developer say? Usually you would
> expect a software development contract to spell out the IP rights. In my
> experience, in the UK, the rights are typically left with the company
> developing the software unless the client company requires otherwise.

I concur. When I do similar work my contracts ALWAYS state the
obvious...either that all resultant work is the property of the customer or
that the software is provided with license TO the customer.

My advice to you would be to higher that 'shyster' to review the contracts,
before you or your customer end up in a lawsuit.

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