Re:RE: Cognos

From: <dgoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:55:52 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0049B8E9.20020718095552@fatcity.com>

John,

    One last point to add to my reply of before. They don't support HP-UX, actually I don't think they support any Unix.

Dick Goulet

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Author: "Vergara; Michael (TEM)" <mvergara_at_guidant.com>
Date:       7/18/2002 9:28 AM

Our Data Warehouse group uses Cognos PowerPlay to build cubes for the end users, and Cognos Impromptu for on-line drill-down and reporting.

IMHO, Cognos writes crappy SQL. The users say they cannot insert hints, so you have to be ready for almost any kind of query.

It's got a nice GUI, though, they tell me.

Cheers,
Mike

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Anybody have any experience with "Cognos"? We've got a bhb that thinks its the solution for giving every end user access to the raw data (groan...loudly!)... I've argued every which-a-way against the concept, now I have to fight the specifics....

HELP! John P Weatherman
Database Administrator
Replacements Ltd.
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