Re: Success/Failure stories about Cognos/BusinessObjects/Oracle's Discoverer

From: Howard Shiau <hshiau_at_earthlink.net>
Date: 1997/04/21
Message-ID: <335ad9d8.7895742@news.earthlink.net>#1/1

Amin Adatia <tmpaadatia_at_ptc.com> wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Danny Chung wrote:
>>
>> Hobbejan Hiemstra <hobbejan_at_worldaccess.nl> wrote in article
>> <33534D6E.4D32_at_worldaccess.nl>...
>> > You could take a look at Oracle Express.
>> >
>> If you have a huge database, forget cognos!
>>
>> Danny.
>
>And until Cognos comes up with a way to directly read the data
>dictionary. I would check out Oracle Discoverer/2000 v3.x; the earlier
>versions are not very good.
>
>Regards

Hi, I'm a newbie so bear with me. Why should Cognos read the data dictionary directly? What does that buy you?

Howard Received on Mon Apr 21 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT