Cognos User Day report

[Martin McDonough]

Just the same over here. 

At the UK conference last year Powerhouse never got a mention from Ron at
the opening session. There was actually a powerhouse session in the
afternoon on the second day, AFTER the conference had ended.

In the question and answer session at lunch on the second day, some brave
fool asked the question what was the future of powerhouse, to which Ron
replied the usual positive response, but went on to say "infact, I think
there is session on adt this afternoon". That just about summed it up.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Pickering, John (NORBORD) [SMTP:PICKERIJ@norbord.com]
> Sent:	31 October 2001 17:08
> To:	'Powerhouse List'
> Subject:	Cognos User Day report
> 
> I attended most of yesterday's "User Day" here in Toronto. A good show if
> you're into Cognos' BI tools but pretty slim fare for us olde tyme
> PowerHouse customers.
> 
> A big disappointment was the president's failure to even mention
> PowerHouse
> in the opening session. Ron was entertaining as usual, although perhaps a
> bit more subdued than at past events (no motorcycle, no Braveheart), but
> perhaps that is just a reflection of the times. He and various other
> corporate staff presented a broad spectrum of Cognos BI stuff -- but
> nobody
> even mentioned PowerHouse -- especially unfortunate considering the
> disproportionate contribution to the bottom line made by ADT :-(
> 
> The ADT side of the house had a table in the lobby just like all the other
> products -- at least they were allowed to attend. Chuck Reinke and JP
> Fortin
> demoed PH Web to any who wanted a look. They included live access to real
> customers' sites, as if to prove there were actually some real customers!
> These two veterans did a 45 minute presentation to a full room of about
> 100
> attendees. The guys were doing just fine until about minute 35 when
> someone
> asked politely "What's Quick?" -- kind of stopped Chuck in mid-sentence!
> In
> a room of about 100 only about 6 hands were raised when asked "How many
> use
> PowerHouse?". A sad sign of the times I guess :-(
> 
> But the latest release of PH Web does seem a big improvement. Many of the
> things which could only be accomplished with JavaScript in earlier
> versions
> are now possible with enhanced Qdesign syntax. To me, this definitely
> seems
> the correct way to go. I'd be happiest if I could do everything in Qdesign
> and never touch the generated HTML template (now XHTML) -- one source code
> source file which could then never get out of sync with its template. Keep
> up the good work Bob!
> 
> Regards,
> JWP
> 
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