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Over 10 years ago

Commented on Gave our organisation more insight in its data, and also in the gaps which were there (and still are).

Hi Joop I agree, Data Manager is now dated because there hasn't been significant R&D investment in a while. It was tagged for "end-of-life" some years ago. I liked that it modeled "the world" in terms of dimensions and facts, unlike most ETL tools, which just think of…

Over 10 years ago

Commented on Gave our organisation more insight in its data, and also in the gaps which were there (and still are).

Joop I agree that Data Manager has been a great product. Just in case you, and others aren't aware, it reaches End-of-Support by IBM on Sept 30 2015 (this year). Version 10.1.0 was the last version to be released or supported. IBM has a program, I think, to help you…

About 11 years ago

Commented on Go for it but get training first

Note that effective of 10.2.2 Query Studio and Analysis Studio have been marked for "deprecation", meaning they will not be in future releases, but would be supported for a number of years in line with IBM's usual support policies Workspace Advanced (for authoring) and…

About 11 years ago

Commented on A good mix of abilities for reporting but ability to manage source code & environment deployment needs work

Regarding source code and environment management, there are some good thirty party add-on tools out there that solve this problem, and other problems such as large scale fine-grained security management Check out MetaManager from Avnet Brightstar Partners (BSP) CI/PI and…

About 11 years ago

Commented on Report Studio is a valuable feature but would be better with the ability to audit the SQL

If you want to understand the performance of a single report or profile a set of reports then you need to use Cognos Performance Management Analysis (PMA). This is packaged with the Business Patterns offering and it used to be available on AnalyticsZone, but I don't see it…

About 11 years ago

Commented on Good product with bad performance. We had licenses for all the features but users almost exclusively used the molap cube file.

I have to dispute some of the comments above. I believe the above author's comments are outdated Firstly, IBM Cognos has a great ROLAP offering in the form of Dynamic Cubes. Cognos Series 7 was a set of products most of which almost all were built in house. Cognos Query…

About 11 years ago

Commented on Good product with bad performance. We had licenses for all the features but users almost exclusively used the molap cube file.

In my experience performance is a function of design. Well designed solutions perform well, poorly designed solutions don't For example a poorly designed data structure mapped to a DMR model in Framework Manager may not perform well. A well designed PowerCube (molap) can…

Over 11 years ago

Commented on Framework Manager is the best Metadata Modeling Tool but we have to restart the mobile server everyday

Can't say that I agree at all Mr Breedlove If you are discussing PowerCubes then they have well-known limitations e.g., (recommended parent child relationship count) and best practices. I certainly wouldn't describe these as hard-to-manage. I see people trying to build…

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