Re: ArcPlan, Brio, Office 2000/XP as Digital Dashboad, Data Mining tool? Need help?, pcumming

Our company does quite a bit of work with DynaSight (arcplan). You can very quickly develop Java applications for browsers. It generates its own SQL (sometimes a drwback...)
but you can also type in your own.

We think it is a good value. We have replaced alot of Excel/VBA and VB apps with it. Also we have replaced some Forms and PB applications.

The learning curve appears to be easy at first but it actually takes a while until
you are seriously productive with the tool. However, once you are up and running
it is very powerful.

Mario

"Peter Cumming" <pcumming_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:854b4533.0105300946.55e76168_at_posting.google.com...
> ArcPlan, Brio, Office 2000/XP as Digital Dashboad, Data Mining tool?
> Need help?, pcumming
>
> We are evaluating Arcplan and Brio and might end up with both products
> actually. We could use some help. We even wonder if Office 2000/XP
> might be of help.
>
> Our criteria is as follows:
> -Web Based
> -Creation of a digital dashboard (list of key indicators to the
> business in graphical form with drill down capability)
> -Powerful yet intuitive
> -Good value for the money
> -Adequate vendor support with good software patches if problems
> occurs.
> -Easy to learn for developers and potentially end users
> -Ability for ad-hoc reporting
> -Ability to create canned reports
> -Ability to import into Access and Excel.
> -Perhaps ability to take data and be able to update it back to its
> source.
> -Perhaps ability to take data offline for analysis (while not
> connected).
>
> Thanks for any comparison, pros, cons, gotchas, strategies, etc...
>
> Appreciate an email reply (if not too much trouble) and a posting.
>
> Sincerely
> Peter
> pcumming_at_yahoo.com
Received on Wed May 30 2001 - 18:11:46 CDT