Security – Encrypting an ODBC connection

You want to look at the question a different way: what you want to do is capture the query that BusinessObjects is executing on the database server, and then run that same query yourself on the database server.

For example, if it's accessing data stored in Microsoft SQL Server, you can ask the database administrator to run Profiler to capture your queries while you're executing the report in BO. He can then give you the queries you ran, and you can execute those same queries in your own tools to get the results directly.

Update: I saw your edits, and what you're asking for just isn't possible. BOXI isn't a middleware tier for accessing millions of rows of data via ODBC. You either need to get the admins to allow you to export more data, or you need to connect to the underlying database.

Have you ever thinking about MS SharePoint ?

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Also, in the past we used CentralDesktop and BaseCamp. Both tools allow share files but both are not only file-sharing tools. They are project-based collaboration tools so you can share tasks, calendars, have dashboards and much more...

I will also recomend you to separate backup storage and file sharing systems. They will have different load and you will be able to find more optimal prices if you will take different systems. For backup storage I would recommend you to look for solutions that use cloud services, like Amazon S3 They have lower price for storage.