Axiant cost?

[Richard Witkopp]

I guess people either didn't see, or ignored, my earlier
message: Our people have been writing their own quiz,
for YEARS. No need to train anybody. They do more reports
than MIS does, complex ones at that.

> Richard, your last statement sounds like one of "cutting off 
> my nose to
> spite my face".  There are some things that Quiz can do better than
> Impromptu but in my experience these are complex reports that 
> users will
> never want or be allowed to do, the latter to prevent the 
> system stalling
> due to poor joins.
> 
> Impromptu is a great tool and equal to or better than just 
> about any other
> Windows based report writer you can buy.  For only a few 
> hundred USD per
> seat it is cheap at that.  Check out the price of Oracle 
> Reports and compare
> features.
> 
> When you combine the power of Impromptu with PowerPlay, 
> Scenario, 4Thought
> and DataMerchant, you get a VERY powerful set of end user 
> reporting tools.
> Add these to the new PowerHouse Web and you're "cooking with 
> gas" (I don't
> know if this saying is used outside of Oz).  The ONLY whinge 
> (whine) I have
> about Cognos's BI tools is the lack of a data porting tool to 
> move legacy
> data into a warehouse or data mart.  Oh, and it sure would be 
> nice if the BI
> tools could access the PowerHouse dictionaryor the PHD and 
> catalog concepts
> could be merged.  Oh, and I would also like to see a GUI 
> interface to the
> PHD. Oh, and .... ;-)
> 
> Blue
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Richard Witkopp [SMTP:witkopp@idt.com]
> > Sent:	Tuesday, May 18, 1999 8:10 PM
> > To:	powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> > Subject:	RE: Axiant cost?
> > 
> > If you're bucking for a piece of the commission on this sale,
> > you can relax, because it looks like we'll do neither and say
> > farewell to Cognos entirely.
> > 
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