RE: Manager decrees "his" data warehouse design. Help!

Discoverer was my first thought too, especially since the folks in the wood panelled offices already use Discoverer.

I don't know that the all inclusive "management" came up with this one directly. There is a very bright COO that probably spawned the idea of some kind of data mart or data warehouse because he knows that 2 of the cobol developers spend over 1/2 of their time running Powerhouse (Cognos) reports, often several times a day, just with different combination of where..., group by... or order by... differences. The cobo, or if a legitimate request spawned an idea with the IT manager.

At 2/27/02, you wrote:
>Oracle Discoverer? Users could poke around with that, without knowing SQL.
>They won't be very quick about it though.
>
>I don't know the context, why did management come up with this scenario, is
>there a history behind all this?
>
>Sounds a bit strange to try to impose an impossible situation that just
>won't work. Decrees don't make reality.
>
>Even when the tools work and the data is there, sometimes users don't use
>systems because the informatics setup does not dovetail nicely with the way
>they go about their daily tasks.
>
>If it's not natural to them, or it complicates their lives, there will be
>resistance.
>
> From the description though it seems there is more than that to it here.
>
>Regards,
>Patrice Boivin
>Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

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