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vantage@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Since I've received no replies about using Cognos I'll assume no one
> uses it with vantage. Does anyone know of anyone using Cognos. Seems
> it's about to be pushed down my throat.

I've used Cognos' Powerhouse products on an older ERP system and I'm just
starting some work on a Cognos 8 project, although not on Epicor/Vantage.
Cognos 8 is completely web-based and has some "Wow" factor. Since EVERYTHING
runs at the server, you do need some beef there. Also, it can connect to
datasources anywhere within network reach, so I can see some performance
issues if not set up properly.

I've always liked Cognos and now that they're owned by IBM, it's going to be
a stable product.

Mark W.
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Does anyone or has anyone used Cognos with Vantage? Version 6.1 or 9?



Nick Robinson

I.T. Director



6707 Northwinds Dr.

Houston Tx. 77041

713.896.5111

NRobinson@...





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Since I've received no replies about using Cognos I'll assume no one
uses it with vantage. Does anyone know of anyone using Cognos. Seems
it's about to be pushed down my throat.



Thanks



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Robinson, Nick
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 7:55 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Cognos





Does anyone or has anyone used Cognos with Vantage? Version 6.1 or 9?

Nick Robinson

I.T. Director

6707 Northwinds Dr.

Houston Tx. 77041

713.896.5111

NRobinson@... <mailto:NRobinson%40energycranes.com>

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Rick,

Never used Cognos with Vantage. I've used it in the past, however.
It's better than CorVu.

I'm in the minority, but I've just never been a big fan of data-cube
data-mining/reporting software. It works well for a company that
manufactures pencils or other basic things but not for most
environments. I wind up creating a report anyways for folks because
most users are either too lazy/afraid/ignorant to create reports
themselves (or even know where to look). Plus, yesterday's data just
isn't recent enough for most people.



-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Robinson, Nick
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:22 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Cognos

Since I've received no replies about using Cognos I'll assume no one
uses it with vantage. Does anyone know of anyone using Cognos. Seems
it's about to be pushed down my throat.



Thanks



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Robinson, Nick
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 7:55 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Cognos





Does anyone or has anyone used Cognos with Vantage? Version 6.1 or 9?

Nick Robinson

I.T. Director

6707 Northwinds Dr.

Houston Tx. 77041

713.896.5111

NRobinson@... <mailto:NRobinson%40energycranes.com>

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I've never worked with cognos on the development side but I managed the
servers that cognos's DBs set on. We constantly had performance issues with
it. It took a pretty heavy duty box to make some of the reports run in a
decent amount of time. However some of these reports were sifting through
hundreds of gigs of data. I hope for your sake that your vantage DB isn't
hundreds of gigs.



~Charlie

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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Vic Drecchio
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:30 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Cognos





Rick,

Never used Cognos with Vantage. I've used it in the past, however.
It's better than CorVu.

I'm in the minority, but I've just never been a big fan of data-cube
data-mining/reporting software. It works well for a company that
manufactures pencils or other basic things but not for most
environments. I wind up creating a report anyways for folks because
most users are either too lazy/afraid/ignorant to create reports
themselves (or even know where to look). Plus, yesterday's data just
isn't recent enough for most people.

-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf
Of Robinson, Nick
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:22 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Cognos

Since I've received no replies about using Cognos I'll assume no one
uses it with vantage. Does anyone know of anyone using Cognos. Seems
it's about to be pushed down my throat.

Thanks

From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf
Of Robinson, Nick
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 7:55 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: [Vantage] Cognos

Does anyone or has anyone used Cognos with Vantage? Version 6.1 or 9?

Nick Robinson

I.T. Director

6707 Northwinds Dr.

Houston Tx. 77041

713.896.5111

NRobinson@energycra <mailto:NRobinson%40energycranes.com> nes.com
<mailto:NRobinson%40energycranes.com>

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and Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
http://groups. <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/>
yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
(2) To search through old msg's goto:
http://groups. <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages>
yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
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