PowerHouse in the next 3 years?

[Darren Reely]

What I've never seen is the sale of Axiant outside of Cognos or its 
Consultant resellers.  Why isn't Axiant competing on the same retail 
shelves as Borland and MS development products. Out of curiosity, I did 
a search on Amazon and got back; 'No matches for "Axiant". Below are 
matches for "giant".'

By the way, what does Axiant cost?

The following are some issues I see with the Cognos web site. The reason 
I mention this is because new interested people may not get far at the 
Cognos site. The ADT message need to be brought forward a bit.

The Product menu item on the front Cognos page needs an adjustment. It 
looks like this...

 Products
   -- Overview
   -- Enterprise Planning
   -- Enterprise Scorecarding
   -- Enterprise Business Intelligence

Where is "Enterprise Application Development Tools"?

The Powerhouse page you eventually find is sparse compared to Axiant and 
Powerhouse Web.  You learn more about Powerhouse on these last two 
pages!  The main page is nearly useless due to lack of content. Hell, 
this link, http://www.cognos.com/products/powerhouse/ph_brochure.pdf, is 
on the PHWeb page but not on the Powerhouse page. I eventually found it 
by drilling down to the Documentation page.

Perhaps some PH awards should be referenced in the PH page as the BI 
page has some.

Here is an interesting statement from an undated Cognos document; 
"PowerHouse surpasses the $1 billion life-to-date mark".  Interesting. 
 Must be a few people using the product then.

I think that main Powerhouse page needs some filling in. It doesn't say 
anything interesting except to specific _current_ customers.

Darren


stewm@canada.com wrote:

>Christina,
>
>I would agree.  I the past when I called Cognos with a
>customer number in hand I was embraced with open arms. 
>I'm talking about what about when you do not have a
>customer number in hand?
>
>What if my company is a service company.  The real
>Cognos customer is our client.  How easily is it for
>business information technologists of private service
>companies?  Let's say I get an email in my inbox and
>it's says have you ever worked with Axiant.  Let's says
>one of the ways that is ever going to happen is you get
>your hands on it.  Let's say that individual wants to
>gets his hands on it so the next time he can say 'yes,
>I've started using it'.  The other way I guess is he
>could go take some lessons at Cognos for $1000's.
>  
>
[a bunch of stuff in the middle deleted]

>Thing is noone with a computer science background knows
>PowerHouseWEB from a hole in the ground nor will most
>of them ever get a chance to try it.
>
>Mark
>