Axiant cost?

[Richard Witkopp]

Understand, other sites may have different needs.
No debate there. There were a couple posts that sounded
like they were trying to convince me that quiz was too
difficult to teach our users, when I had repeatedly said
they needed no training.

We are changing platforms and ERP applications, and have
no plans to buy or convert a Cognos license.

(Fervently hoping this thread dies a rapid and silent death.)

> We saw and took note of your earlier message Richard.  We are 
> simply stating
> OUR experience.  You obviously have very motivated users 
> which is NOT the
> norm.  I have worked at several large PowerHouse sites and 
> typically less
> than 5% of the users wanted to write their own reports.  They 
> may give lip
> service to it but when it comes to the crunch, usually find 
> excuses for not
> training or learning the tools.  Even with Impromptu, in most 
> places I've
> seen MIS requiring a full (or allmost) analyst to create and 
> manage the
> catalogs, provide report templates, train users on an ongoing 
> basis and fix
> their desktop installs every few weeks after they've installed some
> conflicting tool.
> 
> At a site with some 200 users, many nuclear engineers, MIS 
> had to turn off
> command line access to Quiz as users brought the system to 
> its knees in
> short order with poorly written Quiz reports.  The ALL had 
> training in how
> to write Quiz reports too.  Inquizitive didn't help.  MIS 
> decided in the end
> it would cost them less to write and maintain the reporting 
> themselves as a
> service to the users.
> 
> Again, this is my experience.  If your users are so well 
> versed in Quiz and
> happy with it, then why are you writing off Cognos?
> 
> Blue
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Richard Witkopp [SMTP:witkopp@idt.com]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, May 19, 1999 1:00 PM
> > To:	powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> > Subject:	RE: Axiant cost?
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
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