Cognos user conference and ADT

[Brian Schalme]

	I would go for something like that! (An ADT-specific conference in
Ottawa or anywhere that would justify the content.)

		Brian Schalme
		Airspeed Consulting
		bschalme@mbnet.mb.ca
	
"Pickering, John (NORBORD)" wrote:
> 
> "attendance ... has steadily declined"
> 
> And it's not hard to see why. I went to the first 3 user conferences myself
> but I have not attended any since Atlanta and won't be going this year. I'd
> like to go but the content just doesn't justify it.
> 
> Take $950 for early registration. Add close to $200 per night (after adding
> taxes to the $159) for the hotel. Throw in something to get to and from LAX.
> That's comes to pretty close to $2000. Which is close to $3000 in Cdn funny
> money. Add a cheapie charter class plane ticket for about $500 and you've
> got something, in round numbers, close to $3500 Cdn. I'll leave aside the
> fact that my hours at conferences aren't billable to anybody but the taxman.
> 
> There are 10 ADT sessions. So, no offence to the presenters, but you aren't
> worth $350 per hour.
> 
> Maybe the ADT people should stop kidding themselves and not go to what has
> become an almost exclusively BI conference. To have the ADT people show up
> each year with ever fewer people talking to ever fewer customers (and
> usually the same ones) has to be discouraging for all. Some might even infer
> that PowerHouse is dead! If Cognos feels there is a need or a desire for an
> ADT conference then hold an ADT-only conference, obviously on a smaller
> scale. We're techies -- we don't need glitzy destinations and loud expensive
> parties -- most of us would be happier sitting in a cheap bar discussing PH
> and the system from hell (read that as shooting the bull). Personally I'd
> vote for Ottawa so we'd be close to "the lab" but I'd travel further if such
> a conference existed. But the content has to be there.
> 
> Jezz, I'm getting grumpy :-)
> 
> JWP
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Byron Welch [SMTP:byron.welch@creatcomp.com]
> > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 9:13 AM
> > To:   'Powerhouse List'
> > Subject:      Cognos user conference and ADT
> >
> > John,
> >   To some extent this is the chicken and the egg problem.  Over the last
> > few
> > years attendance at the ADT sessions has steadily declined.  We in the ADT
> > community need to make a stronger showing.  One way we can so this is to
> > spread the word about the powerhouse listserv.  If we can show a strong
> > user
> > community then it is easier to get Cognos's attention.
> >
> > Byron Welch
> > Manager Consulting Services
> > Creative Computing, Inc.
> > 100 Middle Street
> > Lincoln, RI 02865
> >
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