Advice Required

[Robert Mills]

Thanks to all who have so far replied (both on and off list) with
suggestions and further questions.

Answers to questions:

1) It's a replacement for one of our main HP3000 applications and is
Windows/Unix/Oracle9i Client Server based.
2) The application has a built-in report writer that is getting severely
challenged by some of the user requirements.
3) Cost is an issue.
4) The person who is creating the reports has been using Quiz for a
couple of years. Therefore, the learning curve for a new environment
would be zero/minimal.

regards, 
  
Robert W.Mills 
MIS Systems Development Manager 
Windsong Services 
+44 (0)20 8309 3604 


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Subject: RE: Advice Required

Robert

If you are setting up a new reporting environment I suggest you move to
either Impromptu, CRN or Cognos 8 BI (Report/Query Studio) for ad-hoc
reporting rather than Quiz.

Blue

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Just after sending my original post I realised that my request was too
vague. Here is another go.

Having never used Quiz in a Client/Server environment I'm in need of
advice on which direction to go.

A) We could have Quiz on the Unix/Oracle box using cron (or something
similar) to run the production reports. Question is how would the users
interact with it from their Windows/Desktop (ad-hoc reports)?

B) We could have Quiz on the Windows/Desktop accessing Oracle via ODBC
(or something similar) to run the ad-hoc reports. Question is how and
where do we run the production reports? Shouldn't they be run on the
Unix/Oracle box?

C) Should we go Axiant? That would work OK for the ad-hoc reports but
what about the production reports?

D) Is there a different way to do it or do we require a combination of
the above three options?

E) Can database views be used by Quiz (in a Cursor?)?

F) Anything else you might think of that can trip us up <G>.

As you can see, lots of question and no answers (yet).


regards,

Robert W.Mills
MIS Systems Development Manager
Windsong Services
+44 (0)20 8309 3604

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