Remote PowerHouse (was Migration from Powerhouse MPE)

[stewm@canada.com]

Blue,

We could provide outsourcing in the way you described. 
However, I don't believe that is a feasible approach. 
Customer applications exist on a wide variety of
platforms.  Software versions differ from site to site.
 If my company had to go out and buy a HP9000, HP3000,
and a VAX and license 5 or 6 versions of PowerHouse to
service everyone we'd go bankrupt pretty fast.  Much
cheaper to log on to each remote machine using a VPN
connection.  Usually takes no more then a few minutes
to setup.

By using a VPN connection you can easily connect to the
customer's schema and application.  A customer that is
deploying business intelligence solutions may have
purchased Cognos Series 7.  A consultant might be asked
to fly to the client site for a week or so.  During
this time a licensed copy of the Cognos Series 7 tools
are installed on a company laptop and the VPN
connection is configured.  You take the laptop back
home and plug it in.  You're good to go.  You can still
can access Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, etc and do
things like publish to Upfront.  Through VPN.  Virtual
means no local servers and no overhead.  The main focus
is providing the service to the client.

Mark Stewart
Consultant (Business Intelligence/ADT)
Consultants Club Corp.
1-519-739-0297

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