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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re:RE: Cognos
Paul,
I FULLY agree. But it's damned nice if that tool does not become an administrative nightmare. The COGNOS metadata layer, although damned nice will become just that. Why, because sales folks call a particular data field one thing and engineers call it something else. and as far as trying to get them to agree, I'll give a clouder of cats a bath first!
Dick Goulet
____________________Reply Separator____________________ Author: Paul.Parker_at_bmwna.com Date: 7/18/2002 11:32 AM
Cognos notwithstanding, isn't the objective in the case of Data Warehouse/DSS/Reporting/BI (or whatever the latest buzzword is for generating reports) to give end-users access to the data. These end-users then generate the own reports, without the need for IT every time they need a new total on a report?
Sure I understand the need to prevent cartesian products and other queries from hell, but there are ways to achieve that. I fail to understand why the end-users shouldn't have access to the data, it is THEIR data, after all, not the DBA's.
Paul
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Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 12:08 PM
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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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