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Re: Cognos

From: KENNETH JANUSZ <kjanusz_at_att.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:59:16 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0049BD9D.20020718115916@fatcity.com>


I am not familiar with the term "cube". Could someone give me a short definition?

Thanks,
Ken Janusz, CPIM

Their OLAP tool is PowerPlay. Their report writer is Impromptu. Which product are they pushing on you?

I think PowerPlay is a great tool and easy to use. When we first bought it
(3 or 4 years ago), I had a cube built within a day. It was much cheaper and
easier to use the Oracle Express.

Building a cube can hit your system pretty hard (all of the data needs to be read to summarize it into a cube). You build your cubes off hours and you don't let users build them on demand.

Jay Hostetter
Oracle DBA
D. & E. Communications
Ephrata, PA USA

>>> john.weatherman_at_replacements.com 07/18/02 12:08PM >>> Anybody have any experience with "Cognos"? We've got a bhb that thinks its the solution for giving every end user access to the raw data
(groan...loudly!)... I've argued every which-a-way against the concept, now
I have to fight the specifics....

HELP! John P Weatherman
Database Administrator
Replacements Ltd.

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